On May 10–11, 2026, the town of Balta in Ukraine’s Odesa region hosted Jewish Culture Days — a festival that showed something important and often overlooked: Jewish life in ...
Jewish communities across Ukraine prepare for Purim with planned visits to isolated seniors, mass holiday meals, and a nationwide distribution of 24,000 mishloach manot (gifts of food) packages, as ...
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Moshe Sasonkin is the rabbi at Anshe Sfard synagogue. He has been preparing for the Jewish holiday of Purim. “The holiday of Purim goes back to the fourth century BCE," Sasonkin said. "There was a ...