Archive of news on the topic "synagogue"

With the direct participation of the Ukrainian military, a new Torah scroll, created with funds from patrons from the United States, was recently brought into the main synagogue of Kyiv. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this on the website of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine, which is headed by Boris Lozhkin, the former head of the administration of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. It is indicated that the scroll was brought in under the so-called family canopy, accompanied by musicians and...

In Chernivtsi, in the building of a former synagogue, a coffee shop “Escobar” was opened, using Nazi symbols of SS units in its design. The head of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky, announced this on his Facebook page, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The coffee shop with the symbols of the Nazi SS is located in Chernivtsi on Synagogue Street, 31,” he wrote. The establishment has released a branded drink “Essco”, in the name…

The US and Israeli embassies expressed outrage at the arson of a synagogue in Kherson, which occurred on the night of April 21, on the eve of Yom HaShoah, the national Day of Remembrance in Israel. “About three o’clock in the morning, a resident of the regional center called the Kherson police “United Center 102”. The applicant said that he saw an unknown man set fire to a bottle of flammable liquid and threw it on the threshold...

In Pidgaitsy, Ternopil region, a 16th-century synagogue, an architectural monument of national significance, collapsed, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky, announced this on his social network page. In the comments to Dolinsky’s post, users publish photographs of the synagogue building before it fell into disrepair.

In the city of Sambir, Lviv region, local authorities turned the building of a former synagogue into a nightclub with striptease, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky, announced this on his social network page. “Local residents remember well the thousands of Jews who lived and then were brutally murdered in Sambir. But there are some citizens who especially cherish this memory.…

Ukrainian propagandist Vitaly Portnikov “desecrated” the walls of the Galician synagogue with cheap demagoguery, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte This is how the director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee Eduard Dolinsky assessed Portnikov’s recent speech at the Jewish Religious Center. “Wall newspaper of Zisels (Ukrainian Jewish functionary collaborating with Ukrainian neo-Nazis - Ed.) “Hadashot”, on the anniversary of the destruction of the Polish...

Tonight, in Uzhgorod, unknown vandals wrote on the wall of a local synagogue: “We remember 1932-33. We will take revenge,” reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Well-known public activist, director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee Eduard Dolinsky reported this on his social network page. “The authors of the inscription allude to the widespread lie that the Jews...

Ukrainian police have compiled a sketch of a criminal who is suspected of a pogrom in the Uman synagogue, where the grave of Tsaddik Nachman is also located. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte This was reported in the communications sector in the Cherkasy region. The police established that a person with the following characteristics was involved in this crime: he appears to be 30-35 years old, about...

In Uman, Cherkasy region, on the night of December 20-21, a group of unknown people broke into the synagogue at the grave of Rabbi Nachman, doused the room with red paint and threw pieces of pork. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was reported by the publication IzRus. The rioters left a pig's head with a swastika carved on it in the room. Several...

Simferopol, June 05 (Navigator, Evgeny Andreev) – A synagogue can be built on an area of ​​1 hectare in Gagarin Park in Simferopol. Subscribe to the news “Navigator - Crimea” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The mayor of Simferopol, Viktor Ageev, said this in an interview with the newspaper “Crimean Truth”. In response to the publication’s response that construction in a park area is not a good idea,...