Yevhen Konovalets returns to Ukraine: Jews alongside the founder of the OUN and a place in the Pantheon 88 years after his murder by an NKVD agent on Stalin’s personal orders
Ukraine returns Yevhen Konovalets — the commander of the Sich Riflemen, the creator of the UVO, and the first leader of the OUN, who was killed by the Soviet secret service in Rotterdam in 1938. NAnovosti checked another part of this story: a Jewish officer in Konovalets’ close circle, the “Jewish Battalion” of the Ukrainian […]
Jews from Ukraine: Solomon Frankfurt. “Solomon’s Temple” near Kyiv: how a Jewish scientist promoted Ukraine’s agro-industry
In the section “Jews from Ukraine” read the story of Solomon Frankfurt — a Jewish scientist and organizer of science, who in the early 20th century helped Ukraine build what today would be called “agro-innovation infrastructure”: laboratories, experimental fields, breeding stations, seed quality standards, and applied research tied to the real economy. This biography (Ukr.) […]
Russian ‘Cheburnet’ continues to attack Israelis – Yandex Mail and Mail.ru stop working in Israel
Israelis report that Yandex Mail, Mail.ru, and other Russian services are no longer accessible. Behind the usual ‘mail not working’ lies a much more unpleasant story: Russia was building a digital wall to control its citizens’ access to the external internet, and now this wall is starting to hinder access to the Russian segment for […]
Hasidim in Uman 2026: in Vinnytsia region, the safety of the route for more than 30 thousand pilgrims from Israel was discussed
Why is the safety of pilgrims in Uman discussed not in Uman, but in Vinnytsia region? More than 30,000 Hasidim from Israel alone must navigate a complex route from airports in Moldova and Romania, Polish railways, and the Ukrainian border — and it is already known when the mass movement will begin. Uman is located […]
The Price of War: How Ukraine, including its Jewish population, paid for Victory in World War II — and how Russia tries to appropriate the common Victory and others’ sorrow
American journalist Edgar Snow wrote back in January 1945 that Ukraine had “paid the bill” for the war. Today, this conversation is especially important for the Israeli audience: the price of Victory included not only Ukrainian fronts and destroyed cities but also the fates of many peoples who then inhabited Ukraine, including the Jews of […]