PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Two members of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia are headed to Ukraine this weekend. The organization's CEO, Michael Balaban, is one of those flying to assist Jewish ...

Viktoria Maksimovich’s students at the Sha’alavim Jewish Day School no longer run for shelters when air raid sirens sound.

Orthodox Jews dance at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman, the great grandson of the founder of Hasidic movement, to mark the Jewish new year in the town of Uman, 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of Ukraine's ...

Ilya Knizhnik came to the United States from Ukraine 31 years ago, but no amount of time or distance can change the fact that he is a Ukrainian. He is also a Jew. So, when Russia invaded Ukraine in ...

Israel to deliver 117 mobile generators to the Kyiv region, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar told Rabbi Meir Stambler in a call ...

Jewish community of Ukraine notes that many sites are inaccessible for inspection, and in some areas, there are concerns about unexploded landmines.

A Ukrainian Jewish leader opposed to the Russian takeover of Crimea failed to drum up support this week from Israel, which is sitting out the crisis pitting its U.S. ally against Moscow. Edward ...

Vadim Vishnevsky, a prominent member of the Jewish community of Kharkiv in Ukraine, died of a gunshot wound to the head. Vishnevsky was rushed to hospital on Nov. 20 from his office, the Ukrainian ...

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. I grew up speaking Russian ...

UMAN, Ukraine — Prayer chants and the sounding of traditional ram's horns fill the air in the town of Uman, in central Ukraine, as thousands of pilgrims join an annual gathering to mark the Jewish new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite warnings from Ukrainian and Israeli officials about security risks, around 35,000 Jewish pilgrims traveled to Uman in ...