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The votes of the Ukrainian delegation once again cause bewilderment and indignation. We would like to get an explanation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Office of the President of Ukraine: why our UN delegation is against Israel and its allies from among the democratic Western countries, and is acting together with authoritarian regimes, including Russia, which is carrying out the ninth year of aggression against our country and the ninth month of active hostilities aimed at its destruction?

Over the past eight years, the Kremlin leadership has taken considerable visible and covert measures to convince the world of Putin's real intentions to revive the Soviet Evil Empire. This policy is being implemented on the territory of Russia itself, against the civil and human rights of indigenous peoples, as well as against other sovereign states and international organizations.

On September 8, 2020, guests of the online studio "Limonad" attended the lecture "Israel-Diaspora Relations, one Nation?!" that was presented by the Head of the Department for Diaspora Affairs at the World Zionist Organization Ms. Gusti Yehoshua-Braverman.

On September 2, 2020, in a cafe called "KAFFA", the Kiev Hebrew Speaking Club opened its fifth season.

The 38th World Zionist Congress will be held in Jerusalem in October 2020. For the second time in the history of independence of our country, a delegation from Ukraine will be represented at the Congress on equal rights with other participating countries.

Are you interested in politics, Jewish issues and everything related to it, or are you just thinking of spending Tuesday evening learning something new?

08.09.2020 at 19:00 join the on-line meeting " Israel-Diaspora relations, one Nation?!", it will be interesting!

Over the years of its existence, the project "Hebrew Speaking Clubs “There are Things to Talk about?!” (hereinafter HSC) has come a long way from the idea of space for lovers of conversations in Hebrew to a whole "network" of clubs that are now working in five cities of Ukraine: Kyiv, Chernivtsi, Melitopol, Kharkiv and Lviv. Thus, at the end of the 4th season, the meeting of club moderators became an appropriate «summing up» of the clubs’ activities. 

Executive Director of the Zionist Federation of Ukraine Elena Zaslavskaya - about the guests and participants of the new on-line project “Limonad” and other projects.

Instead of the planned one-day conference, the international meeting “Alef-Bet-Zionism” has become a series of educational events. Some presentations on various aspects of Zionism were presented online.

A scandal around the Babyn Yar Memorial in Kyiv highlights problems in Ukrainian memory policy and its dependence on external influences. UkraineWorld talked to Yosyf Zissels, one of the leaders of Ukrainian Jewish community, to understand the situation better.

Moses Fishbein was a prominent Ukrainian poet and translator, winner of the Vasyl Stus Prize, a member of the Ukrainian Center of the International PEN Club and the National Union of Writers of Ukraine.

Representatives of the Ukrainian cultural and academic community have appealed to President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, and Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko with the demand for the state to take full responsibility for the creation of the Babyn Yar National Memorial Complex.

Poet, translator, member of the Ukrainian PEN Moses Fishbein has been in the hospital in serious condition for the third week. He needs help to conduct surgery abroad and further rehabilitation. To this end, his colleagues at the Ukrainian PEN initiated the fundraising.

The Vaad of Ukraine deeply mourns the victims of the terrorist attack at the synagogue of the German city of Halle in the land of Saxony-Anhalt. The vile attack took place on Yom Kippur, the most holy day for Jews around the world, when even not very observant members of the congregation gather in synagogues for prayer.

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The MA in Jewish Studies Program is the first degree in Jewish Studies program in Ukraine. It was launched by the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) together with the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine in 2012 in order to develop academic Jewish Studies in Ukraine. The program is under the management of the NaUKMA Department of History and the Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies. The program aims to train highly skilled professionals in the study of Jewish History and Culture.

The project was implemented by the Kyiv History Museum and the Public Committee «Babyn Yar», with support from the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance and the Canadian Charity “Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Initiative”.

On September 28, 2016, during the commemoration of the 75^th anniversary of Babyn Yar tragedy in Kyiv a plan was announced to create Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. The project was initiated by Russian billionaires of Ukrainian descent Pavlo Fuks, Mykhaylo Fridman, Herman Khan and a Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk.