A Jewish group asked the Ukrainian government on Wednesday to stop construction on the site of a grave containing the remains of an estimated 26,000 victims of the Holocaust. [...];
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Thursday,July 24, 2008

A frail Irene Famulak clutched her brother on the airport tarmac, her arm wrapped around him in a tight embrace, tears streaming down their faces. It was the first time since 1942 they had seen each other, when she was 17 and he was just 7. [...];
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Wednesday,July 16, 2008

There has been an "alarming rise" in the number of racially motivated attacks in Ukraine, according to a new Amnesty International study. [...];
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Tuesday,July 15, 2008

Torahs were dedicated in two Ukrainian Jewish communities this week. [...];
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Wednesday,June 25, 2008

A bar mitzvah seminar in Ukraine was designed to instill Jewish pride in students. The Ohr Avner Chabad Day school in Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr hosted a seminar last week focusing on the bar mitzvah. [...];
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Saturday,May 24, 2008

A memorial plaque was stolen from the site where a Jewish writer and painter was killed in Western Ukraine. The bronze plaque for Bruno Schulz was dedicated a year and a half ago by the Polish organization in the artists’ birthplace, the town of Drohobycz, in Ukraine’s Lvov province. It was placed at the spot where Schulz was shot by a Nazi officer on Nov. 19, 1942. [...];
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Tuesday,May 20, 2008

Vandals attacked several Jewish cemeteries and memorials across the former Soviet Union this month. On the first day of Passover (which also corresponded to Hitler’s birthday), hundreds rallied at Moscow’s Triumfalnaya Square shouting anti-Semitic slogans and waving banners honoring Hitler. Area synagogues added extra security for Passover. [...];
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Sunday,April 27, 2008

Ukraine’s president asked his ministers to create a set of measures to counteract racial intolerance and xenophobia. Viktor Yuschenko in letters to Prosecutor General Medvedko and Internal Minister Lutsenko noted the increasing number of cases of xenophobia, racial and national intolerance... [...];
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Tuesday,April 15, 2008

One of every five hate crimes in Ukraine since the start of last year was against the Jewish community, the country’s security police reported. Approximately 100 hate crimes were committed since January 2007, Nikolay Kalashnik, the deputy head of the Ukrainian National Security Service, said last week. Some 20 percent were against the Jewish community. [...];
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Thursday,April 10, 2008

U.S. intervention prevented building on the site of an old Jewish cemetery in Ukraine. Authorities in Vinnitza, 160 miles from Kiev, had allowed the SMU-2 Ltd. construction firm to erect two high-rise buildings on the site. U.S. officials on Thursday told JTA that the embassy intervened and the work order was stopped. [...];
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Friday,April 4, 2008