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Interior of Great Choral Synagogue before January 19th 2026 bombing
January 20, 2026, 5:19 pm
Historic Odesa synagogue damaged by Russian drone strike
Tikva appeals for support to restore Great Choral shul in Ukraine's third largest city
By Michelle Rosenberg
Fire at historic Old Peresip Synagogue caused by Russian drone. Sunday 3 August 2025
August 5, 2025, 12:29 pm
Odessa Jewish community condemns Russian drone attack on historic synagogue
Chief Rabbi of Ukraine's third largest city calls the destruction 'a wound to our community and our heritage'
By Michelle Rosenberg
Yohay Sponder. Tikva Dinner (C) Blake Ezra Photography 2025
May 8, 2025, 11:55 am
Duchess of York and Yohay Spender help raise £1.15m for vulnerable Jewish children
More than 200 guests attended the Tikva UK fundraiser
By Michelle Rosenberg
A young ORT evacuee from Ukraine
November 7, 2022, 7:41 am
Big Jewish charity in Ukraine evacuates families as it struggles to reach staff
ORT said Russian missiles were hampering communication after it moved students and teachers to the west of Ukraine for safety
By Jewish News Reporter
Shaked Yanko, Raphy Aitan, Samantha Buss, Rachel Dutch, Moose/Stag/Reindeer mascot (aka Rabbi Alex Goldberg)
June 8, 2022, 2:41 pm
Surrey students bring in £2,000 to support inter-faith retreat in Ukraine
Jewish undergraduates baked cakes and fundraised for conference of Jewish, Catholic, Orthodox Christian, Muslim and Protestant young people
By Toby Porter
Raisa, 90, was reunited with her three granddaughters including Michal (left) in Israel at the airport (Photo: United Hatzalah)
March 7, 2022, 11:29 am
Joy of Ukrainian Holocaust survivor, 90, at reunion with relatives in Israel
Raisa had been living alone in Odessa after her son died of an illness two years ago
By Jewish News Reporter
February 24, 2022, 9:27 am
Russia invades Ukraine: Country’s Jews fear being ‘stuck in the middle’
Head of Tikva children’s home says there is concern about 'anarchy' and that stockpiling of food and supplies had begun
By Michael Daventry
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
Russian-speaking festival-goers were invited to view Jerusalem underground. Credit: @Eshkolot/Nikolay Busygin.
June 27, 2019, 11:17 am
A different view of Jerusalem: The city under ground
Eshkolot project, who organised the festival, note the 'invisible matrix' underneath the holy city, which has countless caverns,, tunnels, pipelines, crypts and burial places
By Jenni Frazer
Margaret Fingerhut
February 15, 2019, 9:24 am
Jewish pianist tours UK in bid to raise £88,000 for refugees
Margaret Fingerhut plays music composed by refugees and appeared in major venues such as the Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall and the Barbican.
By Mathilde Frot
A Limmud FSU Israel session in action in Eilat 
January 4, 2018, 3:07 pm
There’s Eilat to love at Limmud FSU in Israel’s Red Sea resort
More than 2,000 young Russian-speaking Israelis gathered in Eilat for the latest Limmud FSU conference
Anti-Semitic graffiti daubed onto a synagogue in Odessa Ukraine (Screenshot from YouTube)
December 27, 2017, 12:47 pm
‘Jews out’ and ‘toasting the Holocaust’ daubed on Jewish buildings in Odessa, Ukraine
Anti-Semitic graffiti and slogans painted onto the city's synagogue, Holocaust museum and community centre
By JTA
Tikva Patrons Dinner: Immersive Theatre Picture credit: Blake Ezra Photography
November 23, 2017, 9:44 am
Tikva gives a flavour of pre-war torn Odessa at Patron’s evening
Jewish charity takes 90 guests through an 'immersive theatre' complete with actors and as a participatory market
By Jack Mendel
The scene in the main conference hall at Limmud FSU in Ukraine
October 27, 2017, 11:17 am
Limmud FSU in Ukraine: Bob Dylan theme rocks Odessa
A record 1,000 young Jewish professionals from Ukraine and across the globe gathered last weekend in Ukraine’s historic port city of Odessa for the latest Limmud FSU conference
By Judah Kalman
Odessa City Hall
October 20, 2017, 12:55 pm
Israeli envoy in Ukraine: Honouring of anti-Semites a ‘problem’
Eliav Belotzercovsky tells Limmud FSU group in Odessa that the trend was 'not in line' with Israel's interests
By JTA
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