A Holocaust survivor was killed by a Russian missile in Ukraine
On Tuesday, December 30, 2025, in Kherson, Yevgeny Alexandrovich Bondar died — a member of the city’s Jewish community who survived World War II and the Holocaust but did not survive the current war. He died from the consequences of severe injuries sustained a few days earlier as a result of Russian shelling and a […]
Name and Era: Why the Kyiv Music Academy Parted Ways with Tchaikovsky
At the end of December 2025, the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine put an end to a dispute that had been ongoing for years. The name of Pyotr Tchaikovsky was officially removed from the title of the National Music Academy of Ukraine — a figure around whom not only cultural but also political discussions were […]
The name that remains: a Righteous Among the Nations square has appeared in Balta
Balta is a small but historically rich town in the north of the Odessa region. Here, Ukrainian, Jewish, and Moldovan cultures intertwined, and the pre-war Jewish community played a significant role in the life of the town. That is why the decision made at the end of 2025 was not a formality for Balta, but […]
For the first time since the founding of Israel, population growth has fallen below 1%.
The population growth rate in Israel has dropped to a level the country has not seen since its early years. According to an analysis published this week by the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, the population growth this year was only 0.9% — for the first time since 1950, the figure fell […]