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A small local project snowballs into a growing effort abroad
Some very special gifts are making their way to Odessa, Ukraine, for children in Chabad’s Mishpacha orphanage, thanks to the efforts of a group of women in New Jersey. About 60 women gathered recently for an annual event hosted by community member Renata ...
Partnering with a local Jewish organization, Camp Gan Israel Yeka sees a bright future
ZHITOMIR, Ukraine—Eleven-year-old David Tesla sat on sun-speckled steps, fingering a gold sports medal draped around his neck. It was a year ago, July 2015, the last day of the summer session at Camp Gan Israel Yeka, Ukraine, and the boy was pensively wai...
Election of Volodymyr Groysman, grandson of a Holocaust survivor, is another sign of change
Volodymyr Groysman was appointed the new prime minister of Ukraine by President Petro Poroshenko, a move confirmed on April 14 by the embattled country’s Parliament. He replaces Arseny Yatsenyuk, and at age 38 will officially become the youngest prime min...
In good times and bad, Jews have visited the resting place of Chabad’s founder in Haditch, Ukraine
Eduard Zhak still remembers the day 12 years ago when he first visited the resting place of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad-Lubavitch, in the small town of Haditch, Ukraine. It was then, like today, the 24th of the Hebrew month of Tev...
A question of survival for Jewish communities devastated by war, fear and a failing economy
Ukraine has been in turmoil for almost two years, flooded by cascading waves of crisis that have yet to let up. Protests in Kiev led to a revolution. That was followed by invasion, unrest, war and a surge of refugees rushing to escape shelling and battle....
A joint effort works to provide warmth, comfort and confidence to Jewish children in 50 different cities
Some 5,000 Jewish children in more than 50 cities throughout Russia and Ukraine will be able to purchase new winter clothing thanks to the seventh biannual clothing project, which distributes gift-card certificates to families in need. The gift cards enab...
As reality sets in, a refugee community rethinks the future
It’s Sasha Gordon’s second year celebrating the High Holidays away from his home in Donetsk. He was forced to flee last summer after war broke out between pro-Russian rebels and the Ukrainian government, leaving together with most of Donetsk’s 15,000 Jews...
They discuss current unease in the country as ceasefire falls apart
Chabad Rabbi Yonatan Markovitch was among a group of Ukrainian religious leaders who met last week with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev. The July 28 meeting came amid heightened tension in the country as the Minsk ceasefire crumbled in the ea...
Residents suffer from a lack of food and medicine, and remain under military curfew
Rabbi Shalom Gopin was in a car heading back towards Lugansk. Burned-out shells of cars and tanks littered the side of the highway, and as they drove, Gopin’s driver took care to avoid the missile craters pockmarking the road. War had irrevocably changed ...
Amid bouts of violence, Jewish residents of this city have lived under the threat of invasion for months
MARIUPOL, UKRAINE—The southeastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol has been on edge for more than a year now, with the thud of Grad rockets falling in the distance a part of daily life. “During Shavuot, we heard them all day long,” says Rabbi Aron Kaganovski, ...
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