Jewish refugees

My Word: UN Solidarity Day ignores Jewish refugees expelled from Arab countries - opinion

Two years after October 7, 2023, to mark International Solidarity with the Palestinians, while ignoring what has been inflicted on Israel and the Jewish world, is particularly jarring.

REFUGEE IMMIGRANTS to Israel from Yemen pose at their camp site near Ein Shemer in 1950.
The Departure and Expulsion Memorial in Jerusalem.

US Jewish Congressmembers sponsor bipartisan bill to create ‘Jewish Refugee Day’

 HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - JULY 07: James Gunn, Peter Safran, Nicholas Hoult, Rachel Brosnahan and David Corenswet seen at the Los Angeles Premiere of Warner Bros. "Superman" TCL Chinese Theatre on July 07, 2025 in Hollywood, California.

Five facts on Superman’s Jewish immigrant origins and James Gunn’s reboot

 Pedestrians walk past the Marks & Spencer store near Marble Arch on Oxford Street in London on February 29.

The untold story: How Marks & Spencer helped save the Jews of Europe


With Russia suddenly a pariah, Jews look for ways to leave

Russian Jews are facing extended delays even as their country sinks into crisis because of the war in Ukraine.

 Ukrainian Jews find refuge in Moldova

Russia-Ukraine war: Israel balances condemning, mediating, helping

In a delicate balancing act, Jerusalem condemns the war, seeks to mediate a ceasefire, helps Kyiv with humanitarian aid and flies Jews to Israel.

 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at a previous meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia.

New Jewish European campaign seeks to house Jewish refugees from Ukraine

It's been two weeks since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war and Europe is being flooded by refugees, many Ukrainian Jews are among them.

  Ukrainian refugees at the Palanca crossing at the border with Moldova, March 3, 2022.

The Jewish post-rescue era ended with the war in Ukraine - opinion

This crisis will be remembered for the way it has put Jewish organizations – including Jewish media – back on rescue footing, calling on muscle memory that hasn’t been flexed in decades.

 Residents and community members gather at Moishe House in Dnipro, Ukraine for a night of singing niggunim, or wordless Jewish melodies, March 2021.

300 Ukrainian refugees to make Aliyah on Sunday

One flight will arrive from Warsaw, with about 150 immigrants rescued with the help of Jewish Agency personnel.

 Jewish refugees from Kyiv arrive at a refugee camp 100 kilometers west, closer to the Polish border, February 24, 2022.

Rabbi saves hundreds of Ukrainian Jews on Shabbat

Rabbi Pinhas Zaltsman received between 400 and 500 Ukrainian Jews in Moldova, gave them a hot meal and helped them find a place to stay over the course of Shabbat

 Ukrainian Jews find refuge in Moldova

Ukraine-Russia war: Jewish refugees ready for aliyah

Holocaust survivor: I fled the Nazis and now I am fleeing from the Russians.

 Shoshana and Ze'ev Wolf from Odessa and their dog Donna will be making aliyah to Israel on Sunday

Fleeing Russia's invasion, Ukraine's Jewish refugees look to the future

UKRAINIAN AFFAIRS: A week in Poland with refugees from the Ukrainian Jewish community.

 UKRAINIAN REFUGEES this week at the border with Poland in Medyka.

Preserving the Jewish legacy in New York

Congregation Ohav Sholom was founded in 1940 by a group of German Jews fleeing the horrors of Nazi Germany, and their legacy of Jewish identity and pride is alive and well today.

 Joseph Scutts (left) and Rabbi Aaron Mehlman. On the right from the top down are the Ohav Shlomo Synagogue’s inner sanctuary, exterior and entrance, and Rabbi Mehlman next to the Ark.

How is America’s Jewish refugee aid agency doing after 3 months of Biden?

On Friday, Biden made it official: He would not be raising the cap on refugees above the limit set by Trump.

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the 59th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2021.