A Ukrainian supreme court forbade the Municipality of Lviv from going ahead with controversial plans for commemorating Jewish heritage sites. The Supreme Economic Court of Ukraine issued its ruling ...

(JTA) – A Jewish doctor in Lviv, Ukraine, was beaten to death by an assailant identified by some local news sources as a 26-year-old Arab. Local news reports identified the victim as Leon Freifeld, 67 ...

In the city of Lviv in the Ukraine there are two cemeteries for the burial of Jews. The old Jewish cemetery, one of the most famous in Europe, was started in around 1420 and was closed by 1855 due to ...

The unveiling comes amid legal proceedings against the project by a Ukraine Jewish leader, who calls it "a disgrace." MOSCOW (JTA) — The city of Lviv in western Ukraine inaugurated a controversial ...

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. During an emotional scene in the new documentary film “Boris Dorfman: A Mentsh,” the 90-year-old Dorfman stands in a forest near Rudno, ...

There’s a Jewish-themed restaurant attached to the ruins of the 16th-century Golden Rose Synagogue here. It first caught my eye last month when I was taking photographs of Meylakh Sheykhet, a haredi ...

Lviv will celebrate its Jewish past on July 22 with the city’s fourth annual LvivKlezFest, an international festival of Jewish music. Musicians from Israel, Austria, Germany, Poland, Moldova, Russia, ...

Trains speed over the railway bridge, carrying their daily cargo of suffering refugees from the east to Lviv station. Eighty years ago, Jews travelled the same tracks to extermination camps in Poland.

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Last month, I watched as bulldozers began to demolish parts of the adjacent remnants of what was once one of Europe’s most beautiful synagogue complexes: the 16th-century Golden Rose in Lviv. Most of ...