Rabbi Binyamin Hota, a rabbi and halachic judge, issued a halachic ruling forbidding travel to Uman in Ukraine during Rosh Hashanah, Arutz Sheva reported Sunday. While speaking on the Kol Barama ...

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This year’s pilgrimage comes at an increasingly ... via other European countries in order to reach Uman. The United Jewish Community of Ukraine said Wednesday that more than 14,000 pilgrims ...

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Tens of thousands of Jews gather in the central Ukrainian city each year on Rosh ... In late September, following Rosh Hashanah and the annual Uman pilgrimage, measles cases exploded in Israel ...

as well as shelling in Uman, a Jewish pilgrimage site, as evidence that Russian forces are trying to obliterate Ukrainian history. At least one other Holocaust memorial, on the outskirts of ...