Ukraine

Filmmakers constructed an acre-sized shtetl for a Ukrainian WWII film. Now they want to preserve it as a museum.

The fake Jewish town is the backdrop for a potentially controversial movie on the 1941 murder of local Jews by their neighbors and the Nazis.

The torched grave of a daughter of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Kremenchuk, Ukraine in 2015. (Oholei Tzadikim)

Ukraine grave of Rabbi Nachman’s daughter destroyed and desecrated with pig parts

Also this week, a grave at a Jewish cemetery in Greece and a monument for Holocaust victims in Moldova were vandalized.

The after math of vandalism at the Jewish cemetery of Ploesti, Romania in June 2021. (MCA Romania)

Headstones smashed at Jewish cemeteries in Ukraine and Romania

In both cases, the gravestones were knocked down and some were shattered.

The synagogue of Kremenchuk in Ukraine. (Foundation for Jewish Heritage/The Center for Jewish Art)

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In Ukraine, bullet holes are found in a synagogue and a mass grave of Holocaust victims is desecrated

A 29-year-old man is taken into custody for the murder of Vladimir Shchukin in Nikolayev, Ukraine on May 25, 2021. (National Police of Ukraine)

Global

Jewish history and Holocaust studies scholar murdered in Ukraine

The aftermath of an antisemitic incident at the Jewish cemetery of Hoyo de Manzanares, Spain on May 23, 2021. (The municipality of Hoyo de Manzanares)

Global

Jewish man punched on Berlin street, one of 3 antisemitic incidents reported in German capital

$Marchers hold up the symbol of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS in Kyiv, Ukraine on April 28, 2021. (Anna Marchenko\TASS via Getty Images)$

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Hundreds in Ukraine attend marches celebrating Nazi SS soldiers, including in Kyiv for the 1st time

Ukrainian Chief Rabbi Ya’akov Dov Bleich holds a Torah scroll during the opening ceremony in Kyiv, Ukraine on April 7, 2021 of a synagogue on the site of the Babi Yar 1941 massacre of Jews. (Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center)

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Collapsible synagogue opens on former killing ground of Babyn Yar in Ukraine

Matzahs travel on the production line of the Tiferet HaMatzot factory in Dnepro, Ukraine on Dec. 8, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Food

Jews in the former Soviet Union eat pounds of matzah per person — the most in the world — every year. Here’s why.

Belarusian soldier guard the border to Ukraine against hundreds of Jewish pilgrims on Sept, 15, 2020. (Courtey of Shahar Eliyahu)

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Ukraine to let in vaccinated Israeli pilgrims for Rosh Hashanah

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