Tag: Ukraine

'We prayed Shacharit so well that the walls of the synagogue were shaking,' Rabbi Mendel Cohen, jokes wearily.

“I think peace is only possible, when none of the parties to the conflict think they can win. "

Israeli Defense Minister Liberman met with Russia's FM Lavrov on the sidelines of the conference.

Israel will collaborate with the Ukrainian Research Institute for Prosthesis, Prosthesis and Rehabilitation in Kharkiv.

Secy-Gen. Stoltenberg to Lithuanian PM: "With NATO you will never lose that independence."

There was no explanation for Monday night's sudden resignation of the TEVA chief executive officer.

Some in the Ukraine are calling this grave-robbing a criminal epidemic, but the grave-robbers have not been caught.

Russian news sources reporting the announced publication noted that in Russia the Goebbels diaries are included in the federal list of banned extremist materials, by a court order.

There are thousands of personal letters in the Yad Vashem Archives, which were sent by Jews – adults and children – to their relatives and friends from their homes, the ghettos and the camps.

More than a thousand Israelis streamed into Rishon Lezion to attend the funeral of a soldier they never met, but whose mother they knew they had to comfort in her grief.

The funeral will be at 2:30 PM today (Thursday), at the military section of the Rishon L'Tzion cemetery.

Our advice to all the foreign missions in Israel is to beat the crowds and start moving their own embassies to the capital, while the rates are relatively reasonable.

President Obama personally directed his Administration's lobbying efforts ahead of the expected vote. Obama, vacationing in Hawaii, convened a discussion Thursday with Biden, Kerry and other top national security officials.

Lyashko urged the Ukraine's government to patch up its rift with the Netanyahu government, before the national interests of Ukraine suffer irreparable damage.

Netanyahu's spokesman David Keys said Israel has ironclad information that the Obama administration helped craft the anti-settlements UNSC resolution.

The Teva pharmaceuticals company will pay $519 million in fines after being found guilty in the U.S. on one count of bribing foreign officials.

The pig’s forehead was carved with a swastika.

MK Issawi Freij (Meretz) announced that separating the Shabbat calls from the Muezzin bill exposes it for what it is: yet another example of Israeli racism.

Two men and two women from the Carpathian mountain region attacked Rabbi Mendel Deitsch in Zhitomir.

Rabbi Mendel Deitsch, a longtime Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in France and more recently in Israel, was brutally attacked at Zhitomir’s central train station early Friday morning, where...

The White House has been watching helplessly as Putin suspended the treaty with Washington on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium.

Tens of thousands of travelers are heading this week to Uman to pray at the grave site of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov.

Pres. Rivlin heads to Ukraine for the 75th commemoration of the Babi Yar Massacre.

They discussed kidnapping, torturing and forcing the get from the husband, either in the US or when he was on a trip to Ukraine.

More than 200 new immigrants arrived on aliyah from eastern Ukraine, the 19th IFCJ flight since Dec. 2014.

Before the war there were some 50 synagogues in Kolomia, among them the magnificent Hoiche Shul, a Yerushalmi synagogue, several Hassidic kloizes and even a Zionist synagogue.

More than a thousand Ukraine Jews have called the offices of the IFCJ over the past month, finally willing to flee.

Some of the funds are designated for encouraging entrepreneurship among new immigrants from France, Belgium, and Ukraine.

More than 230 new immigrants arrived in Israel from Ukraine, many of them badly traumatized.

"Trump has repeatedly proven that he, like no one else, understands the public’s demand for a change in course."