Jews in Ukraine

Jewish couples get married in Kyiv for first time since war started thanks to weekend ceasefire

The Jewish Community Center Beit Menachem from Kyiv held a mass wedding ceremony over the weekend that included couples of all ages, including a pair aged 92.

One of the couples who got married this weekend in Kyiv.
AN APARTMENT building hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine April 23, 2026.

Dnipro Jewish community leader’s home damaged in Russian strike, wounding child

RABBI JONATHAN Markovitch celebrating Passover with his community.

Kyiv chief rabbi on Holocaust remembrance: ‘We must not live inside it' - interview

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky looks on during an interview with Reuters, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, March 25, 2026.

Zelensky signs law criminalizing antisemitism, making it punishable by up to eight years in prison


First-of-its-kind Ukrainian egalitarian Haggadah launched

The haggadah was created by Project Kesher, a feminist Jewish organization empowering women in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and the Russian-speaking community in Israel.

 Illustration by Kyiv-born artist Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi

90 olim from Ukraine land in Israel on a special flight of The Jewish Agency

The immigrants were accompanied by players of the National Football League of the USA.

 Pastor John Hagee, Founder and President of CUFI and Chairman of The Jewish Agency, Major General (res) Doron Almog, welcoming the olim at Ben Gurion Airport.

Kyiv Jews celebrate their 2nd wartime Purim with renewed resolve and optimism

Ukrainian Jews are celebrating their continued survival in their second Purim under Russia's invasion.

 Rabbi Irina Gritsevskaya, center, with two members of the Masorti community in Kyiv during their Purim celebration, March 6, 2023

Ukrainian-Israeli on Russia's war: I can travel the world but can't go home - interview

TML speaks to Anna Vengerovski, a 25-year-old student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem about the moment she learned of the invasion and fears for her family in Kharkiv.

 A man stands on the rubble of a house destroyed by recent shelling during Ukraine-Russia conflict in Kharkiv, Ukraine March 7, 2022.

Since Russia invaded, Ukraine's chief rabbi saved countless lives

The work Rabbi Azman and those alongside him are doing is making an immense impact on the lives of thousands of Jews and non-Jews alike. And until the war ends, they have no intention of giving up.

 Ukraine’s Chief Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman in the synagogue at Babyn Yar (Babi Yar).

Jews stuck in Ukraine like ‘insects living in the darkness’

Whether in Odesa or Mykolaiv, many Jews have been left behind in Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian invasion, including the elderly and Holocaust survivors.

 Elena Kuklova

Ukraine war insights from Russian, Georgian students in Israel

In 2008, Western countries came to Georgia’s aid in the end, and they are now gathering for Ukraine. May Ukraine liberate itself soon and restore its autonomous freedom.

 Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meet outside 10 Downing Street in London on February 8, 2023.

Lev Echad: Israeli NGO supporting Ukraine

Tomer Dror: “We are probably the Israeli organization with the biggest on-the-ground representation in Ukraine. We have been there since 2014, long before the war.”

 Lev Echad CEO Tomer Dror and Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi.

JFNA CEO: We’re going to stay involved with Ukraine as long as we’re needed

As the anniversary of Russias invasion of Ukraine approached, Ukrainian Jewish communities spoke of the year they've endured.

 Ukrainian servicemen sit atop a BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle on a road outside the frontline town of Bakhmut, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine February 11, 2023

Among Ukraine's Jews, a year of war has transformed the ordinary into the sacred

A box of nonperishables is manna from heaven for those faced with empty grocery shelves

A SYNAGOGUE in central Kiev. In recent years, Jews in Ukraine have suffered due to conflict in the east of the country and economic uncertainty.