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Alexander LutsenkoThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Every year, on the third Thursday of May, Ukraine and Ukrainian communities around the world mark World Vyshyvanka Day. In 2026, the date carried...
On May 18, 2026, the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine shared news that deserves more than a ceremonial headline. In Anatevka, a Jewish community near Kyiv...
In Russia, the authorities have decided to establish an order named after Subedei — a 13th-century Mongol commander, one of the main military...
“Free Palestine” is a weapon of Russia: why the slogan “From the river to the sea” is part of the Kremlin axis. There are slogans that sound...
There are ships that carry cargo. And there are ships that carry evidence. PANORMITIS, IMO: 9445021, now looks like the second kind. The bulk carrier...
Ukraine’s Day of Remembrance for those who rescued Jews during the Holocaust is not only about those officially recognized. It is also about the...
Sometimes a country’s history returns not through a monument, a speech, or a political anniversary, but through a single old page. In Kyiv, the...
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...
Ukraine paid an enormous price for the defeat of Nazism — including its Jewish population — yet Moscow keeps turning a multiethnic tragedy into a...
The “Immortal Regiment” in Haifa — on Shabbat!!! Foreign Forces Alien to Israeli Society Have Exposed Themselves. What should Israel understand...
In Ukraine — the very country that Russian propaganda has spent years trying to portray as needing “denazification” — there is a wine with a...
In Israeli political and public life, there is a phenomenon that has existed for years and is often described as the “Russian street.” In everyday...
There are moments when memory is not attacked, but captured. This is the central problem with the “Immortal Regiment” as it is increasingly...
Why does this matter to Israel? The story of Ukrainian grain that, according to Ukrainian officials and media reports, may have been taken by Russia...
Yevhen, born in a Jewish family in Chernobyl on April 26, 1986, is known as the “last child of Chernobyl.” Forty years later, he serves in...
According to Militarnyi on April 22, 2026, Belgium’s Ministry of Defense was advancing a plan to acquire 15 Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft...
“There is no better way to celebrate Israel’s Independence Day!” That was how the official account of the Israeli Embassy in Russia framed the...
Russia’s latest attack on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not really about historical sensitivity. It is about power, hierarchy, and the...
On April 20, 2026, the issue of Ukraine’s forcibly transferred children returned to the center of Europe’s agenda. The trigger was Europol’s...
On April 20, 2026, Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Moshe Reuven Asman shared a story that, in wartime, carries far more weight than a routine communal visit....
In late March 2026, Chernivtsi hosted Ukraine’s nationwide student Olympiad in Hebrew language and Jewish literature. The final took place in...
Ukraine has moved into a new phase in its legal response to antisemitism. On April 14, 2026, President Volodymyr Zelensky signed Law No. 2037-IX,...
Passover on the front line in Ukraine in 2026 was a reminder that even war cannot erase faith, memory, or tradition. On the eve of one of the central...
By tradition, six Israelis who survived the Holocaust will light torches during the state ceremony in memory of the six million Jews murdered in the...
“With deep sorrow and heavy grief, the Jewish community of Kamianske received the bitter news of the death of Alexander Rud — a graduate of the Or...
On April 6, 2026, on the occasion of Passover, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with rabbis from cities across Ukraine and with...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on April 5, 2026, made one of the most alarming statements of recent days for Israel. According to him, Russia...
There is far more in common today between craters in Ukraine’s black soil and the ruins of the Middle East than outside observers usually care to...
On April 2, 2026, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha said Kyiv was ready to join international efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. He argued...
The war with Iran has entered its second month, and the gap between military rhetoric and military reality is becoming harder to ignore. The United...
Israel at a Dangerous Pause: Why Delaying a Strategic Turn Toward Ukraine Has Become Riskier Than Making One For too long, Israel has lived inside a...
On March 28, this story took on an especially uncomfortable dimension for Jerusalem. While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was traveling...
On March 27, 2026, Andriy Kovalenko, head of Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), published video of what he described as a...
On March 25, 2026, the Israeli initiative Israeli Friends of Ukraine reported something that’s easy to say and hard to deliver: 17 generators had...
On March 23, 2026, in New York, during a UN Security Council session on Ukraine, something important happened beyond the usual diplomatic routine....
America’s strategy keeps running into the same old problem: in Washington, ideologized regimes are still too often interpreted through the lens of...
Ukrainian military advisers sent to the Middle East at CENTCOM’s request came away stunned by what they saw in the Persian Gulf. According to The...
For years, Benjamin Netanyahu was one of the hardest leaders in Ukraine to read. Not an enemy. Not a friend. Not quite an ally either. More often, he...
On March 18, 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky made it clear that he does not see the war around Iran as a separate Middle Eastern crisis unfolding somewhere...
By March 16, 2026, what began as a Lebanese security accusation had already become something larger: a test of how far Hezbollah is willing to drag...
By mid-March 2026, the Strait of Hormuz had stopped being merely a geographic chokepoint on the map of the Middle East. It had once again become a...
Adolf Eichmann: “I was doing my duty… I not only obeyed orders — I obeyed the law.” That is how Adolf Eichmann explained his actions during...
Wars often reveal their most important lessons only after they have already begun. Before the first missiles fly and before the first drones appear on...
Once again Moscow staged a familiar performance: dramatic statements, accusations of “unprovoked aggression,” and stories about how somewhere in...
There are moments when you read the news and think: no, this is too much even by the standards of modern geopolitics. And then it turns out to be...
On March 5, 2026, Russia’s Foreign Ministry issued an official statement on the Middle East and directly labeled Israel and the United States...
On March 2, 2026, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha issued a statement that cut directly to the strategic core of the Iranian question. His...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s reaction 28/02/2026 to the recent U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran was not framed primarily as a regional...
KYIV — February 23, 2026. Senior Ukrainian officials, international diplomats and legal experts gathered in the Ukrainian capital for the Justice...
“There is a law that says: ‘If someone comes to kill you — rise and strike first.’ That is the essential principle. Defending your country is...
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