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In hard-hitting language, the Biden administration is set to accuse the Russian government of antisemitism and of exploiting Jewish suffering through its claims that its war...
Before the Ukraine war, Lola Landa’s restaurant in Lviv, called Jerusalem, was grabbing attention for its delicious take on Ashkenazi cuisine. Most South African Jews would...
It’s been just more than 100 days since Russia invaded Ukraine, bringing fear, chaos, and loss to millions who just wanted a peaceful life. One of...
Two Johannesburg businessmen heeded the recent call from Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein to help Ukrainian Jews, setting up a 50th birthday fundraiser which raised R750 000....
The department of international relations and cooperation (Dirco) has been criticised for citing the Israel-Palestine conflict in the same breath as Ukraine, and ironically, urging the...
So, here we are again … running away. Two years ago, we all ran into our houses; we shut down our lives; we isolated; and we...
Not many people would flee a war only when things were truly dire, then fly back into the humanitarian catastrophe to host a seder for refugees...
I loved my time in Russia. Floating down the Moskva River with the smell of cooking chocolate swirling from the Red October Chocolate Factory. Meandering through...
Imagine having your house blown up, civilians killed in your neighbourhood, and the organisation you work for attacked. Russian soldiers made this the reality of the...
(JTA) Israeli physicians and Jewish groups are assisting thousands of non-Jews across Ukraine deal with the effects of the Russian invasion into that country. Near Lviv...
(JTA) During Veronika Maidanova’s first two days attending school in Israel, the eight-year-old felt completely lost. “Everyone spoke Hebrew and I didn’t understand anything,” she recalled,...
She’s a single mother of two young children with a brother in Ukraine and colleagues who have lost their homes to Russian bombings. A woman she...
The son of parents who survived the Holocaust, South African-born Solly Kaplinski is now helping Jews in Ukraine survive the war. Kaplinski, who grew up in...
Spending a night in a bus stuck in the snow in a remote area of Moldova is not the place you would normally find a South...
Most of Ukraine is fighting back against the Russian invasion, but some towns have fallen and have been occupied by Russian forces. One such city is...
Like many Italian youngsters, 19-year-old Viola Turone looked forward to travelling as a high school exchange student. But unlike many of her peers, she chose to...
As an endless column of humanity streams across Ukraine’s border with Poland, there are countless aid agencies and Polish citizens waiting to meet them. Among them,...
(JTA) Konstantyn Batozsky believes he’s on a list of so-called “neo-Nazis” to be rounded up “Gestapo-style” and “exterminated” by Russian forces seeking to enter Kyiv. Batozsky,...
Instead of taking her four kids to the park or the beach on Sunday, 6 March 2022, Alana Baranov and her husband, Gary, took them to...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, Johannesburg interior architect Kim Kur decided to form a circle of support to get South Africans home. But in...
As much of the world unites in support of Ukraine, many in our community are looking for ways to assist those still in the Eastern European...
South African teacher Johan Nel had a draining and dangerous journey to escape war-torn Ukraine. He recounted his experience at a SA Jewish Report webinar on...
As the Russian invasion plunges Europe into war and Ukraine struggles against the might of the former Red Amy for survival, we dive head first into...
A man gets his wife and baby into their car at the crack of dawn while bombs fall around him. In a state of shock, he...
As the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine unfolds, Western countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Union bloc have imposed sanctions on...
The pictures coming out of Ukraine are devastating, heartbreaking, and beyond justification. No-one supports war. At least I don’t. I’ve seen it up-close and in the...
The Odessa opera house was full of the great and the good on 24 August last year, when the Black Sea port, Ukraine’s third largest city,...
(JTA) In launching his war on Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared his goal was the “denazification” of the country – referring specifically to his allegations...
(JTA) Rabbi Aaron Motuz fled Odessa on the night of 24 February aboard several buses with about 200 other community members in defiance of a government-mandated...
Russian peacekeeping troops have been dispatched in eastern Ukraine while more than 100 North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) aircraft are on high alert and 120 allied...
The world is holding its breath as it watches Russian troops amassing on Ukraine’s border, threatening invasion or war. Warnings of the possibility that world powers...
(JTA) Vladimir Putin clearly likes to talk about Jews and Israel. This time, he suggested that Israel offered a good model for his designs on Ukraine....
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