Ukraine

Ukraine president honors priest with checkered Holocaust-era record

Andrey Sheptytsky and his brother hid many Jews from German troops but he was denied recognition in Israel because he greeted advancing Nazis as liberators from Russian ocupation.

Ukraine fiscal crisis leads to major setback for homegrown Jewish philanthropy

The economic crisis, in light of the military conflict against Russian-backed rebels, has diminished a growing donor class and returned the Jewish community to a reliance on Western aid.

A ‘Fiddler on the Roof’-inspired refugee camp for Ukraine’s Jews?

A maverick rabbi from Ukraine is raising Western dollars for a Jewish refugee village that shares a name, among other qualities, with Tevye the Dairyman’s fictional village.