According to the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience, more than 30,000 Hasidic pilgrims intend to come to Uman for Rosh Hashanah [the Jewish New Year] this September.

Israeli police have arrived in Uman for the duration of the Rosh Hashanah celebration; they will be on duty with their Ukrainian colleagues. Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Quote: ...

(JTA) The U.S., Israeli and Ukrainian governments have all called it an extremely dangerous voyage into the heart of an ongoing war. But despite the warnings, tens of thousands of Jewish men and boys ...

(JTA) — The U.S., Israeli and Ukrainian governments have all called it an extremely dangerous voyage into the heart of an ongoing war. But despite the warnings, tens of thousands of Jewish men and ...

Orthodox Jews gathered in Uman to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, at the tomb of a rabbi who preached his vision of a joy-filled... War didn't stop Hasidic pilgrims from gathering in ...

UMAN, Ukraine — As he jogged up a hill in this central Ukrainian town, a Chasidic man in a black knee-length coat flicked through a pocket prayer book. He was heading towards the one-story complex ...

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The U.S., Israeli and Ukrainian governments have all called it an extremely dangerous voyage into the heart of an ongoing war. But despite the warnings, tens of thousands of Jewish men and boys are ...

Jewish pilgrims gather at a lake to perform Tashlikh, an atonement ritual that involves symbolically casting one's sins into a body of water, during the Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage to Rabbi Nachman's ...