Ukraine

Donald Trump Jr. says he has met Lev Parnas and thought he was Israeli

The president’s son said he met the man involved in the Trump-Ukraine scandal at political fundraising events and posed with him in photos.

Joel Lion, Israel's ambassador to Ukraine, left and other dignitaries commemorating the Holocaust at the Ukrainian Parliament on Jan. 16, 2020. (The Assembly of Nationalities of Ukraine)

Ukrainian parliament commemorates Holocaust for the 1st time

The ceremony ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day follows tensions with Israel over glorification of collaborators with the Nazis.

Lev Parnas says in interviews that Trump ‘knew what was going on’ in Ukraine

The Ukrainian-American Jewish businessman spoke to several news outlets as the House voted to formally send the articles of impeachment against the president to the Senate.

An effigy of Igor Kolomoisky at the tnrance to the Brodsky Synagogue in Kiev, Ukraine on Oct. 14, 2019. (Courtesy of Eduard Dolinsky)

Global

Anti-Semitic incidents decreased by 27% in Ukraine in 2019, Jewish group says

Global

4 Jewish tourists injured in brawl with locals in Uman, Ukraine

Marchers rally outside the Kyiv City State Administration during a torchlight procession honoring Stepan Bandera, in Kyiv, Ukraine on Jan. 1, 2020. (Pavlo_Bagmut/ Ukrinform / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

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Ukraine tells Israel to stay out of debate about honoring Nazi collaborators

Pedestrian walking past V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Kharkiv, Ukraine on June 21, 2016. (Viktor O. Ledenyov/Wikimedia Commons)

Global

Ukrainian Jewish student’s dorm vandalized in suspected hate crime

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

Global

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

Global

Israel and Poland slam glorification of Nazi collaborators in Ukraine

A jar of Dragon's Breath zhug produced by Jewish community members in Odessa, Ukraine. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Global

Hummus is becoming popular in Ukraine. Jews there opened a zhug factory to capitalize on it.

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