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Alluding to conflict with Russia, Ukraine’s Jewish president likens his nation to Jewish people

A Ukrainian diplomat also hinted the country may soon recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

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Construction unearths parts of Crimean synagogue long thought to be destroyed

Workers found a 9-foot-tall frame of a Star-of-David stained glass window while renovating a hospital in Crimea.

Hanukkah menorahs vandalized in at least 3 Ukrainian cities

The targeted menorahs were in the cities of Kyiv, Dnipro and Nikolayev.

Actors Milla Bankowicz and Robert Wieckiewicz portray members of the Chiger family trying to survive the Holocaust during filming in Lviv, Ukraine in 2011. (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)

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Inspired by a 2011 movie, Ukrainian researchers have found the Lviv sewer where dozens of Jews escaped the Nazis

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80 years later, and after several failed projects, Ukraine inaugurates historic memorial to Babyn Yar victims

The Babyn Yar killing site in Kyiv, Ukraine is made up of dozens of ravines and ditches where the German occupation forces and their allies killed tens of thousands of Jews and non-Jews in September 1941. (Courtesy of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center.)

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80 years after Babyn Yar Holocaust massacre, a German lawyer seeks trial for last living alleged perpetrator

President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses parliament in Kyiv, Ukraine on May 20, 2019. (U.S. Embassy Kyiv, Ukraine / Flickr)

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Ukraine passes law banning antisemitism

Renovation works at the Jewish cemetery in Sataniv, Ukraine in 2021. (Dmitry Polyukhovich/Jewish Heritage Europe)

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Jewish group renovating a Jewish cemetery in Ukraine accused of damaging headstones

Cafe Escobar's new font. (Cafe Escobar)

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Owners of Ukrainian cafe housed in a former synagogue say logo resembling Nazi symbol was a ‘font gone wrong’ mistake

Jews pray on a street near the tomb of Reb Nachman of Breslov in Uman, Ukraine, on Sept. 20, 2006. (Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images)

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Ukraine OKs Uman pilgrimage for vaccinated arrivals

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