Many Jews fast on the day before Purim. This year, some are dedicating the ritual to Ukraine. Rabbi Jeremy Borovitz about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky: “This is a Jew in the world who needs our strength right now.”
Ideas Ukraine, Russia and the unbearable lightness of ‘never again’ Remembering the past is not the same thing as taking action in the present, writes the president of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.
After hitting a cap, Israel will allow in Ukrainian refugees ineligible for citizenship if they have local relatives Israel announced last week that it would cap absorption of Ukrainian refugees who are ineligible for Israeli citizenship at 25,000 people, a number that prompted criticism.
Ideas My heart breaks for Ukraine — and the Ethiopian Jews who can’t get the same embrace from Israel