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/PRNewswire/ -- For the 14th consecutive year, Rabbi Andrew Baker, AJCs Director of International Jewish Affairs, will serve as Personal Representative on...

/PRNewswire/ -- For the 14th consecutive year, Rabbi Andrew Baker, AJCs Director of International Jewish Affairs, will serve as Personal Representative on...

(JNS) - Ukrainian, Israeli, American and European leaders joined together online on Dec. 15-16 for the third-annual Kyiv Jewish Forum to discuss the

For those who seek silver linings in the dark clouds that gather, here are 10 positives from 2021.

For those who seek silver linings in the dark clouds that gather, here are 10 positives from 2021.

At this time of year-end recollections, we cannot forget that antisemitism has reached historic levels this year, including attacks on Jews in the streets of Boston, New York, Los Angeles and Southern Florida.

“We know what it means to defend one’s own state and land with weapons in hand at the cost of our own lives,” said Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Both Ukrainians and Jews value freedom, and they work equally for the future of our states to become to our liking and not the future others want for us. Israel is often an example for Ukraine.”

Israeli President Herzog: “Antisemitism ultimately lurks into other forms of intolerance and hate. It poisons our society and damages us all."

“Jews and Ukrainians are united by more than a thousand-year history, and this history has a lot to teach us about the challenges we face today,” said president of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine Boris Lozhkin, specifically noting anti-Semitism and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reappointed former Justice Minister and Mount Royal MP Irwin Cotler Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism.