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Dame Melinda with Zelensky
April 14, 2023, 12:23 pm
INTERVIEW: Meet Melinda Simmons, Dame of Ukraine
The title may be new, but the dogged determination is the same. The British ambassador in Kyiv talks exclusively to Jewish News
By Jenni Frazer and Lee Harpin
An EU-funded initiative will mean that Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are used to help preserve Jewish heritage
November 14, 2022, 4:09 pm
Drones to help survey thousands of Jewish cemeteries across Europe
Workshop being held in Ukraine - where drones of a different kind have wrought havoc and destruction since February
By Jewish News Reporter
2J19C6N Ukrainian Jew Irina Sakada from Kyiv, reacts as she listens to her daughter Sophia during a meeting with refugees organised by The Jewish Federations of North America, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva Synagogue in Lublin, Poland March 22, 2022. Picture taken March 22, 2022. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
October 18, 2022, 3:34 pm
SPECIAL REPORT: ‘We don’t know who’s dead or alive’
Concern is mounting for small Jewish communities inside Russian-occupied Ukraine.
By Jacob Judah (JTA)
Jewish pilgrims gather at the Tomb of Nachman of Breslov in 2016
July 7, 2022, 5:31 pm
Stay away from Ukraine this Rosh Hashanah, ambassador warns Jewish pilgrims
Yevgen Korniychuk says the safety cannot be guaranteed for the thousands who usually visit the grave of the 18th century Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
By JTA
June 8, 2022, 5:14 pm
Football boss’s mission to give crucial food and fuel to Jews in eastern Ukraine
Premiership Dundee United's business director has already dodged bullets as he has driven to Kyiv - and is now planning to reach Kharkiv to ensure they get aid and to bring refugee families out
By Toby Porter
Melinda Simmons
May 1, 2022, 3:13 pm
UK’s Jewish ambassador to Ukraine feeling ‘comfortable’ on return to Kyiv
Melinda Simmons arrived back in the city on Friday, following the announcement last month that Britain would be reopening its embassy in a show of support for Ukraine.
By Jewish News Reporter
President Volodymyr Zelensky (Screengrab)
March 8, 2022, 5:43 pm
Zelensky tells British MPs: ‘Ukraine’s fight is like war against Nazis’
Echoing Churchill, Ukraine's President says: “We will continue fighting for our land, whatever the cost. We will fight in the forests, the fields, the shores and in the streets.”
By Lee Harpin
Bomb damage in Kharkiv
March 4, 2022, 12:53 pm
Kyiv charity head: ‘I can’t do anything to change the situation, to stop this war.’
Aleksey Tolkachov speaks to Jewish News as Russian fighter jets fly over his home
By Stephen Oryszczuk
A Chanukah  menorah that had been knocked to the ground lies flat in Kyiv on Nov. 30, 2021. (The Ukrainian Jewish Committee)
December 6, 2021, 11:53 am
Chanukah menorahs vandalised in at least three Ukrainian cities
Menorahs were attacked in Kyiv, Dnipro and Nikolayev with multiple arrests having taken place
By JTA
Babyn Yar Symbolic Synagogue
April 7, 2021, 11:42 am
Symbolic Babyn Yar shul to open this week
Synagogue at the site of the Shoah massacre near Kyiv will be inaugurated to mark Yom HaShoah, in a ceremony attended by religious and political leaders from Israel and Ukraine
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Wendy Lower researched every aspect of this shocking image taken at the massacre of Ukrainian Jews in Miropol in 1941, as detailed in her new book, The Ravine
February 18, 2021, 12:16 pm
Murder in action: Rare Holocaust photograph that sparked ten-year investigation
Wendy Lower researched every aspect of a shocking image taken at the massacre of Ukrainian Jews in Miropol in 1941, as detailed in her new book, The Ravine
By Francine Wolfisz
The Babi Yar ravine
November 17, 2020, 11:02 am
New synagogue will open on Nazi killing grounds of Babyn Yar in Ukraine
Shul will open next year ahead of the 80th anniversary of the mass killings that were perpetrated against Kyiv's Jewish community
By JTA
The new Wall of Names with names of the 3,485 Jews who were deported during Nazi occupation
January 31, 2020, 12:52 pm
City of Nice remembers the thousands forcibly deported
We look at the history of the French city with two shuls that has just dedicated a new Wall of Names
By Robert Levitt
A 3d rendering of what the memorial will look like
September 20, 2019, 12:13 pm
Winning design for new Babi Yar memorial chosen
The site is where 33,771 Jews were killed in over just two days by Nazi soldiers in September 1941,will have a new education centre and monument
By Jewish News Reporter
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