On June 2-3, 2015 in Kyiv and on June 5 in Lviv, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and partners will host an international seminar titled “The Seduction of Propaganda: Mass Violence in Ukraine in the 20th and 21st Centuries”.
Andrzej Duda, a Conservative Catholic politician who won Sunday’s presidential elections in Poland, has criticized the outgoing president’s apologies in recent years for the massacre that Polish farmers perpetrated against their Jewish neighbors in Jedwabne.
An Egyptian journalist from a popular news site dressed up as an ultra-Orthodox Jew and walked the streets of Cairo asking locals for directions to a synagogue, in order to gauge the public’s reaction.
A number of associations mainly representing communities of various eastern European diasporas in the United States have called on U.S. President Barack Obama to provide lethal weapons to support Ukraine against Russian aggression, the American Jewish Committee said on Monday.