This week in power: Ukraine safety and Jack the Ripper

A roundup of the most talked about political and global stories in the Jewish world this week:

Ukraine at the holidays
“Hundreds of Jewish families are staying in the flashpoint eastern Ukraine cities of Donetsk and Mariupol and will spend Rosh Hashanah there,” ” target=”_blank”>fleeing the area. Estimates ” target=”_blank”>according to reports. “Kosminski’s family fled Poland in the early 1880s, escaping Tsarist pogroms, and settled in London. Kosminski, a barber, is said to have been a suspect at the time, and was ultimately institutionalized. He reportedly died in a mental hospital in Hertfordshire in 1919, at age 53.”

“Even if it can someday be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that Kosminsky committed these murders, the reasons why will surely remain shrouded in mystery,