Ukraine

The shtetl that rewinds time

Ady Walter’s discusses his new film about Jewish life in Ukraine before the Nazi invasion

By Stephen Applebaum

6 min read

Ukraine

‘The only ones left’: Shabbat with the Jews of Donetsk

By Paul Cainer

2 min read

Ukraine

Israeli human rights activist demands his country supplies arms to Ukraine

By Paul Cainer

1 min read

Eli Rosenbaum, director of the Human Rights Enforcement Strategy and Policy and counselor for War Crimes Accountability at the US Department of Justice, testifies about the war in Ukraine during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "From Nuremberg to Ukraine: Accountability for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity," on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, September 28, 2022. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

America

Legendary Nazi hunter says US will tighten laws to prosecute Russian war crimes

By Georgia L Gilholy

1 min read

Ukraine

Ort UK raises £350,000 for Ukraine aid in annual dinner

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Ukraine

Zelensky aide: Russia is equivalent of Hezbollah

By Paul Cainer

4 min read

A picture taken on August 5, 2022, shows Palestinian rockets fired from Gaza City in retaliation to earlier Israeli airstrikes, and Israeli Iron Dome system missiles intercepting them. - A senior militant from Islamic Jihad was killed in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip today, prompting the militant group to warn Israel has "started a war". A child was among those killed in the strikes, the enclave's health ministry said, while Israel's military estimated 15 were dead. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)

Ukraine

Israel fears Iron Dome technology could land in Russian or Iranian hands

By Felix Pope

3 min read

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Zelensky slams Israeli 'neutrality', warns of heightened Iranian nuclear threat from Russian cooperation

Israel's refusal to send Ukraine military aid is likely related to its arrangement with Russia in Syria

By Georgia L Gilholy

3 min read

October 25, 2022 14:34

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a press conference in Kyiv on March 3, 2022. - Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the West on March 3, 2022, to increase military aid to Ukraine, saying Russia would advance on the rest of Europe otherwise. "If you do not have the power to close the skies, then give me planes!" Zelensky said at a press conference. "If we are no more then, God forbid, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia will be next," he said, adding: "Believe me." (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

Netanyahu says he will consider supplying military aid to Ukraine if he returns to power

Opposition leader also expects to be asked to mediate in talks between Russia and Ukraine

By JC Reporter

1 min read

October 23, 2022 14:07

Netanyahu says he will consider supplying military aid to Ukraine if he returns to power

'Our Ukraine scroll survived Nazis and is now a symbol of defiance'

Precious manuscript has survived one war and has now evaded another after being brought from frontline town of Zaporizhzhia to North London community shul before recent Russian invasion

By Paul Cainer

3 min read

October 20, 2022 11:52

'Our Ukraine scroll survived Nazis and is now a symbol of defiance'

Irish MEP says it is 'laughable' to support arms to Ukraine but not Palestine

Clare Daly voted against a resolution condemning an escalation of Russia’s war effort

By Felix Pope

1 min read

October 18, 2022 17:26

Irish MEP says it is 'laughable' to support arms to Ukraine but not Palestine

Russians desperately search for Jewish roots to flee military conscription

As Vladimir Putin enforces a military call-up, Russian men have hunted through their family history to find any proof of Jewish roots to claim Israeli citizenship

By Ben Bloch

3 min read

October 12, 2022 12:24

Russians desperately search for Jewish roots to flee military conscription

Our battle to tell the world about Babyn Yar

Widow, 89, reveals how the pair unveiled the full, uncensored story of the massacre to the world

By Nic North

4 min read

October 6, 2022 12:27

Sylva Rubashova, from Golders Green, helped to edit the book Babyn Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel, by her friend, novelist and Russian defector Anatoly Kuznetsov. Byline John Nguyen/JNVisuals 08/11/2022

In the shadow of Babyn Yar, Ukraine’s Jews return home

At the start of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February, Kyiv's Central Synagogue was packed to the gunnels with human misery. Today, the shul is near-normal, as Kyiv bustles almost as busily as before the war started

By John Sweeney

5 min read

October 6, 2022 12:14