Jews from Ukraine: from Uman to the White City. Yehuda Magidovich, the first architect of Tel Aviv
The first chief architect of Tel Aviv – a city destined to become one of the most influential capitals in the world, was a native of Uman, Yehuda Magidovich, the son of Uman women’s hat designer Binyamin Zvi and Uman housewife named Rachel. When one of the founders of the State of Israel and its […]
Ukrainian Jews have historically spoken Russian. The war is changing this.
Three rabbis were sitting at breakfast in the Tsori Gilod synagogue of this city, discussing Russia’s war against the country where they work in a mix of Yiddish, Hebrew, and Russian. They named their hometowns as Luhansk, Lviv, and Dnipro — the Russian names of Ukrainian cities that made international headlines after Russia’s invasion of […]
One hundred thousand documents against oblivion: a digital archive of Babi Yar was presented in Kyiv — the legacy of Ilya Levitas is now becoming accessible
On October 5, 2026, in Kyiv, the pilot version of the digital archive of the National Historical and Memorial Reserve “Babyn Yar” was presented. Since 2023, about 100,000 digital copies of documents, photographs, letters, and testimonies have been created for the project. A special place is occupied by the collection of Ilya Levitas — a […]
Jews from Ukraine: Ukraine as the homeland of Hasidism – 37 main dynasties and their Ukrainian roots
The phrase “Ukraine is the homeland of Hasidism” sounds emotional, but it has a serious historical basis. Modern encyclopedic and academic sources indicate that Hasidism originated in the 18th century on the lands of present-day Western and Central Ukraine — primarily in Podolia and Volhynia, around the circle of Baal Shem Tov and his disciples. […]
“We ask you for salvation”: May 16 – 3 years since the appeal of a Jewish Azov fighter to the Israeli government: “On the ruins of the Azovstal plant, there are Jews like you and me”
The defense of Azovstal lasted from March 18 to May 16, 2022, on the territory of the Mariupol Metallurgical Plant “Azovstal”. It took place as part of the battle for Mariupol during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian forces besieged the plant for a long time, and on May 16, 2022, the Ukrainian garrison surrendered […]
Jews from Ukraine: Chaim Drukman: a life dedicated to the Torah, Israel and the Jewish people
On January 15, 2025 it became known that The Israeli Knesset approved a bill to perpetuate the memory of the outstanding Rabbi Chaim Drukman. Born in 1932 in the Carpathian town of Kuty (now a village in the Kosovo region of the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine), he became one of the key figures of religious […]
Soviet ban on memory: exhibition of unrealized memorial of Babi Yar from 1965 opens in Kyiv
“Returning our own past and dismantling the myths created by the Soviet authorities about the Holocaust is one of the strategic directions of the National Historical and Memorial Preserve Babyn Yar,” said its director, Roza Tapanova, in her opening speech. She emphasized that the 1965 competition was a hope for the community to honor the […]
A memorial plaque for Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, repressed by the NKVD for preserving Jewish life, was unveiled at the Lukyanivska Detention Center in Kyiv.
A memorial plaque has appeared in the active Lukyanivska detention center for a man who was interrogated and beaten here for refusing to renounce Judaism. The story of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson today unites Kyiv, Dnipro, Mykolaiv, Kamianske, Kazakhstan, and the entire Chabad world. Where they tried to break him: a memorial to Rabbi Levi […]
Why Ukraine cannot be compared with either Israel or “Palestine”? – opinion
Ukraine is not Israel and not “Palestine”, asserts journalist Dmytro Galko. In an article for “NAnews”, we examine why comparing these cases is dangerous and incorrect — and how exactly they differ. Comparisons that lead to a dead end On June 29, 2025, a piece by journalist Dmytro Galko was published on the Ukrainian news […]
The Place Where Hasidism Was Born: Secrets of the Village of Tovste, Ternopil Region of Ukraine
In 1734, the founder of Hasidism settled in Tovstom Israel ben EliezerIt is believed that It was here that he received his second name, Baal Shem Tov (abbreviated as Besht) and became known as a tzaddik and healer. In his new article “Ukraine Incognita” revealed little-known facts about the Jewish history of the village of […]
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