[1] In September 2018 the JCU and the American Jewish Committee (AJC), signed an association agreement to formalize their collaborative relationship.
[2] The mission of the JCU is to unite the Jews of Ukraine, to help the Jewish communities in the country and to support the State of Israel.
[8] In this context, the term "Righteous" refers to people who risked their lives to save Jews during the Second World War.
Announced in September 2018, JCU's project includes renaming streets in most of the major cities of Ukraine, granting special pensions to the Righteous People of Ukraine, filming documentaries, publishing books based on their stories and expanding the database of internationally recognized heroes[9] In 2013, the JCU established a tradition of awarding the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Medal to prominent figures who contributed to the development of Jewish-Ukrainian relations.
The medal was named after Andrey Sheptytsky, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Metropolitan Archbishop between 1901 and 1944 who openly criticised the Nazi regime and harboured and saved hundreds of Jews during the Second World War.