He is married and has two sons and a grandson. He is a member of the
Ukrainian Parliament and president of the
Ukrainian Jewish Committee. Feldman is also a co-founder of the
Institute of Human Rights and the Prevention of Extremism and Xenophobia. Feldman first entered the
Ukrainian parliament after winning a
single-member district located in
Kharkiv during the
2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election. In parliament he joined the
United Ukraine faction and when that party merged with
Batkivshchyna Feldman joined this party too. Batkivshchyna was a part of the
Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc during the
2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election and
2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election Feldman was re-elected into parliament on a party ticket of this bloc of political parties. He also was of its Kharkiv regional party organization. Feldman joined the party
Our Land in August 2015. In 2017, he was elected to the board of the international organization "Religions for Peace", a pacifist organization with headquarters in New York, which has consultative status with
UNESCO, UNICEF and the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. In the July
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Feldman was re-elected to parliament after again winning electoral district 174 in Kharkiv, again as an independent candidate. This time with 37.24% of the votes (slightly 4% more than runner-up
Viktoria Alekseychuk of the
Servant of the People party). In parliament he joined the
Opposition Platform — For Life faction. For this party Feldman was candidate in the
October 2020 Kharkiv mayoral election. He finished second with 14.32%, losing to incumbent mayor
Hennadiy Kernes. On 15 March 2022, following the
Russian invasion of Ukraine, Feldman left the
Opposition Platform — For Life faction stating that the party's actions leading up to and during the war contradicted their previous stance of stressing the need to negotiate agreements to end wars. == References ==