In Israel, some Holocaust survivors from Ukraine feel ambivalent about their war-torn country of birth Some point to Ukraine’s celebration of Nazi collaborators and its bloody history before World War II.
Zelensky’s Jewish parents have refused interviews. But their city’s rabbi is talking about them. Rabbi Liron Ederi, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary, told an Israeli magazine that Zelensky’s parents have helped him on multiple Jewish inititatives.
Ideas Mariupol, one of Putin’s main targets in Ukraine, once sheltered a great yeshiva The city was shaped by conflict and the efforts of previous generations to preserve their lives, faith and culture in the face of brutality.
Global Polish-Jewish journalist quits newspaper after it demands different description of ‘neo-Nazi’ Ukrainian militia