Odessa

Eight dead, dozens wounded as Russia strikes Ukraine with missiles, drones

Eleven people were wounded in the capital, Kyiv, by an attack that used ballistic and cruise missiles as well as drones.

mokes rises after a Russian ballistic missile strike hit a roadway in Kyiv's Darnytskyi district, where a traffic-light control electrical cabinet caught fire and windows were shattered in nearby residential buildings on July 11, 2026 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The entrance sign to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, October 24, 2023, Jerusalem, Israel.

Israeli philanthropies expand educational centers for injured children in Ukraine

AN ODESA orphanage, damaged in a Russian strike.

Odesa Jewish school, orphanage damaged in Russian strikes

RABBI SHMUEL YERISH and family in Hadera.

Rabbi Shmuel Yerish: From teaching in Ukraine to creating Jewish kids' toys in Hadera


A tour guide carries on in war-torn Odesa

Olga Bokhonovskaya is continuing the virtual tours over Zoom that she began when COVID-19 hit.

 THE INTERIOR of the historic Main Synagogue, aka the Great Synagogue, which is now closed.

Russia to Turkey: We had 'nothing to do' with strike on Odesa port

Two Russian missiles hit the port of Odesa on Saturday but caused no significant damage.

 Firefighters work at a scene after a shelling, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues in a location given as Odesa, Ukraine in this picture obtained from social media released on July 19, 2022.

UK says Russia concentrating for attack on Ukraine's city of Siversk

Russian forces are likely pausing to replenish before undertaking new offensive operations in the Donetsk Oblast, the Ministry of Defence said in a Twitter update.

 Ukrainian service members install a national flag on Snake (Zmiinyi) Island, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Odesa region, Ukraine, in this handout picture released July 7, 2022.

Ukraine-Russia War: Russian says it seized Lysychansk Oil Refinery - RIA

Russian missiles struck an apartment building and two holiday camps near Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa early on Friday, killing at least 19 people and wounding dozens.

 Smoke rises over the remains of a building destroyed by a military strike, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Lysychansk, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine June 17, 2022.

Chabad emissaries launch humanitarian campaign

The Hartmans have launched a campaign through the Worldwide Chabad Friends of Odessa

 Jewish Orphans who were smuggled today from Odessa to Chisinau in a special rescue operation by Chabad and the IFCJ (International Fellowship of Christians and Jews) seen in Chisinau, Moldova, March 2, 2022.

US patrol boats sent to back up Ukrainian Navy near Black Sea

The new boats are part of a security package to Ukraine worth over $2.5 billion since 2014, the year when Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula.

 US flagged general cargo ship Ocean Grand, carrying two US Coast Guard cutters, sails in the Dardanelles, on its way to the Black Sea, in Canakkale,Turkey November 20, 2021.

The first kosher bar in the former USSR serves cocktails and Torah lessons

A bar that fills the unique niche of jews in Odessa

Two pints of beer

Ukraine Jews bring spicy fundraising idea - country’s first zhug factory

Ukranian Jews are producing zhug in the hopes of meeting communal needs amid a slowing economy

Zhug - Skhug Yemenite hot sauce

New exhibition reveals the secrets of the Israeli ‘Mayflower’

On December 19th, 1919, Ruslan, carrying 600 travelers from Odessa, docked at the port of Jaffa. It has been dubbed “the Israeli Mayflower,” because many of its passengers entered Israel's pantheon.

THE ‘RUSLAN’ anchors at the port of Istanbul on its way from Odessa to Israel in 1919.

Texas shooter bought gun in private sale, after ban due to mental illness -ABC

The gunman, identified as Seth Aaron Ator, 36, carried out the shooting spree in the neighboring cities of Midland and Odessa

Flowers are seen at the site of a mass shooting where 20 people lost their lives at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, U.S. August 4, 2019