President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine emphasized that up to 300,000 people, most of whom were Jews, had been executed in the Pisky area between 1941 and 1943
A rabbi in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is opening there what he says is the city’s first yeshiva, or Jewish religious seminary, since World War II.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Israel is a Russian-speaking state and that the two countries share a common history and extensive family ties.