(JTA) — Dozens of Ukrainian nationalists protested the annual pilgrimage of Jews to the grave of a Chasidic rabbi in Uman. Sunday’s protest, organized by the nationalist Svoboda Party ...

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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 ...

KYIV, LVIV and UMAN, Ukraine (JTA ... the site of an annual Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage for thousands of Jews, most of them Orthodox, who travel to the gravesite of the 18th-century sage Rabbi ...