Over the last ten days several serious and possibly anti-Semitic incidents took place near the Rozenberg Synagogue in Kyiv’s Podil district. These incidents have caused great concern for the Jewish community and have already aroused the interest of foreign media. Many of these incidents’ details are as of yet unclear, but it is already certain that nothing like this has happened in the Ukrainian capital since the mid-2000s...
On December 15, 2013, Josef Zissels, Congress of National Communities of Ukraine (CNCU Executive Director), Head of the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine (VAAD of Ukraine), member of the Helsinki group since 1978, former political prisoner gave a speech at the People’s Assembly of Euromaidan, during the Day of Dignity in Kyiv.
Head of Ukrainian Jewish Community Joseph Zissels gives an interview on EuroMaidan - the mass protests in Ukraine connected to the EU Association agreement.
Two back-to-back suicide bombings on November 19th in the vicinity of the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Beirut, Lebanon killed at least 23 people and wounded more than 140.
Angela Merkel expects to be reelected in Germany next Sunday, and an advocate of dialogue with Hamas who accused Israel of running an ‘apartheid regime’ in Hebron might end up as her deputy
If Tehran is willing to reach a sizable compromise on some aspects of its nuclear program, without totally dismantling it, then it may be possible not only to put off a US attack, but also to decrease sanctions
The full text of the new European Union ‘’Guidelines on the eligibility of Israeli entities and their acvtivities in the territoriesq occupied by Israel since June 1967 for grants, prizes and financial instruments funded by the EU from 2014 onwards’’.
