Chris Pine, known for his role in Star Trek, shared his Jewish roots at a Jewish deli in Los Angeles, citing the similarities between his great-grandparents who emigrated from Eastern Europe and the deli's founders from Russia.

The author describes their journey from Lviv to Kyiv, observing the caution and fear caused by recent bombings.

The spelling of place names in Ukraine, such as Kyiv or Kiev, and the transliteration of names like Zelensky or Zelenskyy, have significant political implications.

The Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial in Kiev, Ukraine, commemorating the massacre of 34,000 Jews by German SS troops in 1941, was recently torched by unidentified assailants on Rosh Hashanah.

In the Fateless: The Beilis Trial a Century Later, the text discusses Mendel Beilis's notorious trial in 1913, accused of a blood libel murder in Tsarist Russia.