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Ukraine's chief rabbi blasts Vladimir Putin’s 'crimes against humanity' after invasion

Rabbi Moshe Azman is also helping personally with rescue efforts in Kherson

By Suzanne Baum

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Ukraine's chief rabbi blasts Vladimir Putin’s 'crimes against humanity' after invasion

KHERSON, UKRAINE - JUNE 8: Local resident floats on a raft near his house on June 8, 2023 in Kherson, Ukraine. Early Tuesday, the Kakhovka dam and hydroelectric power plant, which sit on the Dnipro river in the southern Kherson region, were destroyed, forcing downstream communities to evacuate due to risk of flooding. The cause of the dam's collapse is not yet confirmed, with Russia and Ukraine accusing each other of its destruction. The Dnipro river has served as a frontline between the warring armies following Russia's retreat from Kherson and surrounding areas last autumn. The dam and plant had been under the control of Russia, which occupies a swath of land south and southeast of the river. (Photo by Alex Babenko/Getty Images)

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg

By Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg

The destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam is yet another blow to Ukraine's Jews

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KHERSON, UKRAINE - JUNE 8: Local resident floats on a raft near his house on June 8, 2023 in Kherson, Ukraine. Early Tuesday, the Kakhovka dam and hydroelectric power plant, which sit on the Dnipro river in the southern Kherson region, were destroyed, forcing downstream communities to evacuate due to risk of flooding. The cause of the dam's collapse is not yet confirmed, with Russia and Ukraine accusing each other of its destruction. The Dnipro river has served as a frontline between the warring armies following Russia's retreat from Kherson and surrounding areas last autumn. The dam and plant had been under the control of Russia, which occupies a swath of land south and southeast of the river. (Photo by Alex Babenko/Getty Images)

Russia Ukraine War

Kherson Jews 'lose everything' after being forced to flee rising water after Ukraine dam rupture

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Ukrainian military experts show to representatives of diplomatic missions in Ukraine downed drones that Russia allegedly uses for striking critical infrastructure and other targets in Ukraine during a press-conference in Kyiv on December 15, 2022. - Ukraine said on December 14, 2022, it had shot down more than a dozen drones in Moscow's latest assault on Kyiv. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia Ukraine War

Iran’s ‘suicide drones’ are being developed at British universities

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A woman places a candle in front of the Menorah-shaped memorial dedicated to the victims of the Babi Yar massacre during the commemoration ceremony on the 76th anniversary in Kiev on September 29, 2017. - Ukraine marks 76 years since the Nazis slaughtered 34,000 Jews on the outskirts of Kiev during one of the worst single massacres of the Holocaust. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP) (Photo by GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Ben Judah

It is not hard to find a minyan in Kharkiv… but for how long?

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Ukrainian mayor pledges to safeguard iconic Jewish cemetery amid war

Ukrainian mayor pledges to safeguard iconic Jewish cemetery amid war

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) speaks with Russia's chief Rabbi Berel Lazar at a ceremony marking the handover of the Schneerson library at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre in Moscow, on June 13, 2013 . Putin expressed today hope that the problem of a disputed Jewish archive, known in Russia as the Schneerson library, claimed by the United States was finally put to rest as he visited the rare collection in the newly opened Jewish Museum in Moscow. AFP PHOTO / YURI KADOBNOV (Photo credit should read YURI KADOBNOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Ben Judah

Putin has destroyed the Russian Jewish revival

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Ukraine's chief rabbi to take Israeli water purification technology to the frontline

Rabbi Moshe Azman is in London meeting politicians and Jewish leaders to raise support for the Ukrainian war effort

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May 12, 2023 13:50

Ukraine's chief rabbi to take Israeli water purification technology to the frontline

Jewish soldier killed in Ukraine battle is finally laid to rest

Ali Shabay's body was finally recovered 11 months after he was killed in battle in north-east of country

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May 4, 2023 12:01

Jewish soldier killed in Ukraine battle is finally laid to rest

Israeli paramedic: How I survived a deadly Russian missile

Maksym Vainer's left leg was shattered by shrapnel as he helped a group of people reported seriously injured by Russian artillery in Bakhmut

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April 27, 2023 12:04

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Ukrainian servicemen take cover behind a residential building damaged by shelling in the frontline city of Bakhmut, Donetsk region on April 23, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov / AFP) (Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel to provide Ukraine with missile warning system - but no Iron Dome

The system will first be deployed in Kyiv, then expand to other Ukrainian cities if deemed a success

By Tash Mosheim

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April 21, 2023 10:43

TOPSHOT - A woman stands in front of a destroyed building after a Russian missile attack in the town of Vasylkiv, near Kyiv, on February 27, 2022. - Ukraine's foreign minister said on February 27, that Kyiv would not buckle at talks with Russia over its invasion, accusing President Vladimir Putin of seeking to increase "pressure" by ordering his nuclear forces on high alert. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

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