Jews from Ukraine: Chaim Nachman Bialik – an outstanding poet, writer, Zionist and thinker who played a key role in the revival of Hebrew literature
Heading 'Jews from Ukraine' on the website NAnews #JewsofUkraine reveals inspiring stories of outstanding Jews whose destinies and achievements connect Ukraine and Israel In Ukraine, a memorial sign was installed on the facade of the house in Odessa at 9 Malaya Arnautskaya Street, where Chaim Bialik lived in 1907. The Jewish community of Ukraine shaped […]
Why Putin “convicted” Bandera again: a fake court, a court historian, and a new “denazification of Ukraine”
The Russian aggressor state, after more than four years of full-scale war, has not been able to destroy Ukrainian statehood and force the Ukrainian people to abandon resistance. Therefore, for the domestic audience, the Kremlin once again resorted to the familiar Soviet cliché: if Ukraine resists Russia, then it is not the struggle of an […]
Jews from Ukraine: Ruth Kluger-Aliav — from Kyiv and Chernivtsi to secret ships, the only woman in the first team of ‘Mossad LeAliyah Bet’, who led Jews to the shores of Eretz Israel

In the summer of 1939, a train with Polish Jews was under guard in Romanian Constanța. These people were supposed to transfer to the Tiger Hill — an old steamship prepared for an illegal voyage to Eretz Israel. But the Romanian authorities received orders to stop further dispatch of such groups, and the train was […]
Jews from Ukraine: Moshe Segal from Poltava, the man who was arrested for blowing the shofar in Jerusalem on Yom Kippur
The story of Moshe (Moshe-Tzvi) Segal is the trajectory from Poltava to Jerusalem. Youth in the Ukrainian Jewish environment, strict study routine, and the first Zionist circles turn into a public gesture of freedom at the Western Wall on Yom Kippur in 1930. He gave the final sound of the shofar — tekiah gedolah — […]
25 years of the Tel Aviv – Novosibirsk flight: Ukrainian S-200, 51 dead Israelis, Kuchma’s apologies and compensations that are forgotten today
On October 4, 2001, a Tu-154 of Sibir Airlines, flying from Ben Gurion Airport to Novosibirsk, was lost over the Black Sea. An international technical investigation concluded that the aircraft was hit by a Ukrainian S-200 missile during exercises. All 78 people on board died, including 51 Israeli citizens. 25 years later, Russian media are […]
Jews from Ukraine: Vladimir Zeev Jabotinsky (continued)
As promised, we continue our discussion of a Jew from Ukraine – Ze'ev Jabotinsky. #jewsukraine 📝 The biography of Vladimir Zeev is really full of interesting facts, so today we are publishing the second of two posts about him. — First see – Jews from Ukraine: Vladimir Zeev Jabotinsky. 👦🏻 Childhood and youth: Vladimir Jabotinsky […]
In Lviv, a Jewish matzevah was found. Why, after many years, are the names of the deceased still being unearthed from under the asphalt

In Lviv, a Jewish tombstone was found, which after discovery was transported and returned to the territory of the Jewish cemetery. Residents of the city joined in the rescue of the matzevah. The Lviv Volunteer Center separately thanked Julian Lahun and Andriy Lahun for their help in preserving Jewish heritage. This was reported on August […]
Not only ‘Galicia’: Russian national formations in the service of the Third Reich and the uncomfortable memory of World War II
Russian propaganda has been using World War II as a political weapon for decades. When it needs to attack Ukraine, it repeatedly recalls the SS Division ‘Galicia’, the battalions ‘Nachtigall’ and ‘Roland’, Ukrainian nationalism, individual episodes of collaborationism, and wartime crimes. But as soon as it comes to Russian formations that served the Third Reich, […]
Shmuel Agnon: Jewish writer, Nobel Prize laureate from Galicia (Ukraine)
In his native Buchach, a monument was erected in his honor, one of the city’s streets is named after him, and a bas-relief of the writer is at the entrance to the local “ART-Court.” Shmuel Agnon (born July 17, 1888, Buchach, Ukraine) is a famous Jewish writer whose life and work are closely connected with […]
The last ‘homework’ of 14-year-old Daniil Umansky, who died in Kyiv: a Russian drone did not allow him to finish his work on what Vladimir Monomakh taught – responsibility, helping the weak, and respect for others

On the morning of September 25, 2026, 14-year-old Daniel Umansky was sitting in his room in Kyiv doing his homework. In his notebook, he was writing about Vladimir Monomakh and trying to explain how the moral principles formulated almost nine centuries ago might look today. Author: Alexander Khmelnitsky He wrote about respect for other people, […]
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