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Project ImpACT gets Jewish youth helping others in this time of need
November 18, 2024, 1:12 pm
Want your kids to do the right thing? Read on….
From packing kits for displaced Israelis to cooking for Londoners living in poverty, Project ImpACT sets youth up for the task
By Project ImpAct Ambassador Sam Ellis
Rabbi Jonathan Markovitch holds a fragment of a Russian drone that damaged the Chabad-run Perlina school in Kyiv, Ukraine, Oct. 30, 2024. (Courtesy Kyiv Jewish Community)
October 31, 2024, 2:51 pm
Kyiv Jewish school damaged in Russian drone strike
No one was harmed at the school, but nine people were injured in an adjacent building
By Marcel Gascón Barberá - JTA
King Charles speaks at the event marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
September 24, 2024, 10:10 am
Russia excluded from 80th anniversary commemoration of Auschwitz liberation
Auschwitz Museum director rules out Russian presence next January
By Jenni Frazer
Assassinated Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh meets Iran's Ali Khamenei in Tehran, 2012/ Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
September 17, 2024, 4:33 pm
OPINION: A brazen defiance deserving western wrath
Tehran’s defiance of both public and private warnings from London, Berlin and Paris underlines once again its status as an international pariah
By Michael Rubin
Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman, a chief rabbi of Ukraine, speaks during the memorial ceremony marking the 82nd anniversary of the Babyn Yar massacre in Kyiv, Sept. 29, 2023. (Genya Savilov / AFP via Getty Images via JTA)
September 13, 2024, 12:59 pm
Son of leading Ukrainian rabbi killed battling Russian forces
UK's Chief Rabbi Mirvis and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky send heartfelt condolences to Rabbi Moshe Azman on the death of Anton Samborskyi
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
Twins Michal (left) and Ester Bitton
August 9, 2024, 5:36 pm
‘Dance makes you feel alive’
Young teachers from countries hit by war take part in Israeli Dance Institute camp in UK
By Jenni Frazer
Vitalii Sazonov is a Ukrainian national judo team doctor. Mr Sazonov is living as a refugee in the UK and has shared his excitement about making it to the Olympics after nearly losing his family to Russia's invasion.
August 6, 2024, 2:03 pm
How World Jewish Relief helped Ukrainian doctor get to Olympics
After taking part in WJR STEP programme the doctor was able to work with judoka team in Paris
By Jenni Frazer
Irina in hospital after surgery
April 21, 2024, 7:32 pm
SPECIAL REPORT: ‘I dug my family from the rubble… my son died in my arms’
The testimonies of Ukraine’s Jews, many of them Holocaust survivors, have been preserved in a powerful new project
By Etan Smallman
April 7, 2024, 1:00 pm
Ukrainian jazz singer Golda lights up the London stage
Story of a young female war refugee set to music has great resonance
By Louisa Walters
Paul Anticoni, Chair Maurice Helfgott and participants. Pic: WJR
February 22, 2024, 2:11 pm
Thousands in Ukraine helped by World Jewish Relief
British charity maintains humanitarian aid as war enters its third year
By Jenni Frazer
Pic: Courtesy of Chabad of Poland
November 14, 2023, 4:42 pm
Jewish community in Poland comes together for weekend of unity
Amidst growing antisemitism, the event marking Kristallnacht brought together more than 200 members of the Polish Jewish community from Warsaw, Krakow, Katowice and Lodz
By Michelle Rosenberg
Lord Alf Dubs. Credit: Jillian Edelstein
October 20, 2023, 10:03 am
Alf Dubs calls for UK to open Palestinian refugee scheme
The peer suggested the scheme should be modelling around that which has helped Ukrainians, and should be targeted at women and children trying to leave Gaza
By Lee Harpin
Russian President Vladimir Putin .(Aleksey Nikolskyi, Sputnik Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
September 6, 2023, 4:44 pm
Putin accused of ‘deep-rooted antisemitism’ after ‘ethnic Jew’ jibe at Zelensky
The Russian president claimed the ‘West installed Zelensky to cover up Nazism in Ukraine’
By Lee Harpin
Prince Charles speaking at a WJR event
August 24, 2023, 12:15 am
World Jewish Relief wins Government contract to support Ukrainian refugees into work
The organisation, which helped bring Jewish refugees to the UK 80 years ago and counts King Charles as patron, was selected to provide employment support for up to 10,000 arrivals
By Lee Harpin
Eugene Shvidler
August 21, 2023, 10:48 am
Oil tycoon and Edgware primary school funder loses appeal against sanctions
The High Court in London rejected an effort by Eugene Shvidler to have the sanctions on him declared unlawful.
By Lee Harpin
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