Odessa

Jewish orphans evacuated from Odessa to Berlin at Ukraine war’s start are headed home again

Mishpacha Orphanage has been spending 750,000 euros a month to feed, house and educate 120 children in Berlin, its leaders say.

By Deborah Danan February 21, 2023 2:00 pm

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How Russia’s war is undoing 30 years of Jewish community building in Ukraine

“It feels like we’ve gone back in time to 30 years ago,” said one rabbi in Vinnytsia, where half the Jews have left amid deadly Russian attacks.

July 20, 2022 5:42 pm

In a Romanian resort town, Jewish children from Odessa celebrate Purim as refugees

“I just want to return as soon as possible,” said one woman who is staying in a hotel rented by Tikva, a children’s aid group from Odessa.

March 18, 2022 8:26 am

Ukraine’s Jews hunker down as long-feared Russian invasion becomes deadly reality

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 24, 2022 9:06 am

For elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union, COVID-19 lockdown loneliness is debilitating

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 25, 2020 5:04 pm

A barman preparing a cocktail at Kosher Bar in Odessa, Ukraine on Sept. 25, 2019. (Courtesy of Kosher Bar)

The first kosher bar in the former Soviet Union serves up cocktails and Torah lessons

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 6, 2020 4:56 pm

Shlomo Artzi, left, and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin singing together on April 13, 2015. (Courtesy of the Spokesperson of the President of Israel)

Women singers not welcome at charity concert promoting unity among Israelis

By Cnaan Liphshiz November 1, 2019 1:44 pm

Who are the Jews of Ukraine?

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 13, 2019 4:08 pm

Anti-Semitic slogans painted on 3 Jewish buildings in Odessa, Ukraine

December 26, 2017 4:46 am

In Search of Persecuted Writer Isaac Babel’s Legacy

By Leah Falk

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