EU Refugee Crisis

Russian Jewish billionaire Yuri Milner pledges $100 million for Ukrainian refugee relief

A dual Russian and Israeli citizen who lives in California, Milner, and his wife Julia, are best known in the world of philanthropy.

 Julia Milner and Yuri Milner attend the 2020 Breakthrough Prize Red Carpet at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, Nov. 3, 2019.
 Jewish men wait for breakfast at the refugee camp in Irshava, Ukraine, April 5, 2022.

Refugees with jacuzzis: The surreal life of 200 Jews at a 4-star resort in wartime Ukraine

Couple sits covered with a blanket as refugees and migrants camp on a road following a fire at the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos

Collapse of Afghanistan calls back to similar past refugee crises

A Palestinian boy walks past a drawing by British graffiti artist Banksy

Banksy to sell paintings to raise $1 million for a Bethlehem hospital


‘The crisis levels everyone’

Children without warm clothes in the winter; women left to fend for themselves as their husbands work at half the local pay. For 2.2 million Syrian refugees in Turkey, it's a lost generation.

An elderly Syrian women sits outside a mosque in Suleymaniye, begging for money from passersby

Islamic State's lure to foreign women

The inclusion of females as terrorists essentially doubles the number of prospective recruits and contributors to a terrorist cause. Also, women are viewed with less suspicion than men.

ISIS flag flying in Ramadi Iraq

Dealing with unaccompanied refugee minors who were forced to fight in Syria

As in other sectarian wars, the main actors in the Syrian war target and exploit vulnerable groups, such as minors.

ISIS Footage Shows Bosnian Children in Syria

Syrian refugees join Berlin Jewish community for last night of Hanukkah

Giant menorah in Brandenburg Square sends a message that ‘peace and tolerance are stronger than any dispute,’ says Chabad head in German capital.

People stand in front of a giant eight- branched candelabrum Menorah in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on December 6, 2015 at the start of the holiday of the jewish religious festival of lights Hanukkah.

EU to begin accession talks with Turkey, offers cash to ease flow of migrants to Europe

Brussels offering 3b. euro, visas, accession talks in exchange for help from Ankara, human rights pushed into the background.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a news conference in Ankara

We cannot turn our back on today’s refugees

"Grinding the entire US refugee program to a screeching halt or eliminating all federal funding for the resettlement of refugees are not acceptable options."

A family from Aleppo waits to cross into Macedonia. Thousands of migrants take this route towards Hungary and into the EU

A story the Jews know all too well

As we face the largest refugee crisis since World War II, we have a chance to show that we learned the lesson of the St. Louis.

A Syrian refugee kisses his daughter as he walks through a rainstorm towards Greece's border with Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni

Sweden says it is running out of room to house new refugees

The Nordic nation has taken in more asylum seekers per capita than any other European country but says it has run out of beds.

Migrants stay in a queue before passing the Austrian-German border

Paris attacks trigger debate on refugee policy

"I make the urgent plea, as interior minister and as a responsible politician of this country, that there shouldn't be any hasty links made to the refugee debate," said German interior minister.

Migrants enter bus, which is supposed to leave to Austria and Germany, in Budapest, Hungary, September 4, 2015.

Poland says cannot accept migrants under EU quotas after Paris attacks

"The attacks mean the necessity of an even deeper revision of the European policy towards the migrant crisis," Konrad Szymanski said at a Saturday briefing.

Police forces and rescuers walk through rue Oberkampf near the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris, early on November 14, 2015