My queasy night at Lviv’s controversial ‘Jewish’ eatery
Jewish Journal
April 4, 2016
There’s a Jewish-themed restaurant attached to the ruins of the 16th-century Golden Rose Synagogue here.
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Ukrainian court nixes controversial Jewish heritage projects in Lviv
Jewish Journal
August 15, 2014
A Ukrainian supreme court forbade the Municipality of Lviv from going ahead with controversial plans for commemorating Jewish heritage sites.
Robbers raid Holocaust victims’ mass grave in Ukraine
Jewish Journal
June 27, 2014
Grave robbers in Ukraine raided the final resting place of Jews executed en masse during the Holocaust, a Kiev-based watchdog on anti-Semitism reported.
Ukraine Jews see alleged beating of Jewish man as symptom of mounting nationalism
Jewish Journal
October 22, 2013
The police station on Stefan Bandera Street in Lviv used to be just another government building to Dmitry Flekman. But that changed earlier this month following a nine-hour interrogation by two detectives, who were accused of torturing and humiliating the 29-year-old Jewish businessman.
Ukrainian city agrees to stop using Jewish headstones as pavement
Jewish Journal
March 1, 2013
The city of Lviv in Ukraine agreed to remove Jewish headstones currently used as pavement.
Shopping center construction damaging historic Lviv synagogue
Jewish Journal
August 8, 2012
The Jewish community in Lviv, Ukraine, has warned that construction of a new shopping center could seriously damage a historic synagogue next to the site.
Wiesenthal Center: Lviv mayor covers up anti-Semitism
Jewish Journal
June 12, 2012
The Simon Wiesenthal Center condemned a statement by the mayor of Lviv, Ukraine, in which he said that in his city \”there has never been anti-Semitism and there will never be.\”
Golden Rose shul’s ruins in no peril, Lviv official says
Jewish Journal
September 8, 2011
The ruins of the historic Golden Rose synagogue are in no danger of demolition, a Lviv official told JTA, despite reports to the contrary.
Helping an orphan of history recover its past
Jewish Journal
January 18, 2011
It\’s not every day that you can help a city recover its history. But that\’s what happened recently in Lviv, in western Ukraine, when I served on the jury for an international design competition to mark and memorialize key sites of Jewish heritage. Sponsored by municipal authorities in association with the Lviv Center for Urban History and the German Society for Technical Cooperation, the competition was aimed at counteracting widespread, and sometimes willful, amnesia about the city\’s rich and convoluted past.
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