Month: June 2021

* Kvas is a drink, made familiar in the stories of Shalom Aleichem. [Copyright: Yael Shamir-Driver May 2001]   After visiting the small town of Skvira and the […]

Medzyhbosh (also spelled Medzybizh) is a town in Western Ukraine known as the birth place of the Chassidic religious movement.The first records of Jews in […]

(Courtesy: Boulder Jewish News, by Rabbi Marc Soloway) I have just returned from the amazing city of Kiev after an incredible Ukrainian adventure through lost […]

(or Every Jew Must Have a Goat) (Courtesy: The Jewish Daily Forward – a short story by Pearl Abraham) Print Email Share Author Archive Walking […]

“Building meaningful bonds between Ukraine and the USA” What began as a casual conversation between a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer and a Chabad Rabbi – both of whom were […]

The patriarch of the Borman family was Jacob.  Jacob was a sugar beet farmer.  He kept the land in the name of a good non-Jewish […]

Jan de Witte (1709-1785) was a Polish military engineer and architect of Dutch descent. The author of, among others, the Dominican church in Lwów (modern Lviv, […]

A Crumbling Memorial to a Once Magnificent Jewish Community [Copyright: Yael Shamir-Driver June 2001]   At the end of May, after a long period of debate and […]

(Courtesy: UJA Federation of Greater Toronto) What can one do when the Ukraine, cradle of Hasidism and fertile soil for the Haskalah movement, has beckoned […]

                                                                           (Courtesy: North Suburban Synagogue Beth EL)