Debating on the degree of anti-Semitism in modern Ukraine and the role of Jews in it three top experts from Toronto and Ukraine clashed in their views when they spoke up to the crowd in the Jewish Community Center in London on Jan. 29.
Alexey Ostapenko is involved with efforts to ship aid to Ukraine and believes that the presence of the logo of Azov militias shows the attack was nationalistically motivated.
Twelve people have been killed and three others were critically injured in a terrorist attack at the office of a Paris-based satirical magazine Wednesday, police said.
CRIF, the umbrella representative group of French Jewish organizations, slammed French theaters for presenting anti-Semitic comedian Dieudonne's new shown titled ‘’The Impure Beast.”
Romania’s ambassador to Armenia was recalled to Bucharest to give ‘’explanations’’ after he reportedly made anti-Semitic and homophobic statements as well as disrespectful remarks on the Armenian genocide.
On the evening of Monday, February 24, unidentified arsonists threw a bottle filled with an incendiary compound at the Zaporizhya synagogue. The police are investigating the matter.
On January 22, 2014, a member of the leadership of the united opposition of Ukraine, Mikhail Livinskiy, made a proposal to VAAD Ukraine Chairman Josef Zisels to organize a patrol and guards for the Kyiv synagogues by Maidan’s self-defense forces.
