Gopin, Chana

On Tuesday, we tried to gain our bearings and figure out what to do here in Iasi, Romania. Shalom had heard that more Ukrainian families would be coming through the city on their way to Israel, or to catch their breath before continuing on to some other c...

Shalom didn’t lose his cool. He made some phone calls, I’m not even sure who he called, and he somehow was able to secure the house we are currently staying in. They say if you apply yourself, it might take up to six people to find the actual person who w...

Good morning Romania … . I check my phone to see what day it is. The hours and days confuse me; life has been turned upside, as if it began spinning and landed on the wrong side. I spoke to my daughter Fradi after midnight yesterday. I had to call her. I ...

Editor’s note: Chana and her husband Rabbi Shalom Gopin were Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in Lugansk, far-eastern Ukraine, until the war began in 2014 and their city was occupied by rebels. In the aftermath they relocated to the Obolon neighborhood of Kiev...

Read the first installment of a Ukrainian Shlucha's War Diary.

“I’ve dreamed a lot of dreams. I’ve dreamed about what I would do with my life, how my family would look, and how I’d develop the community to which I’m a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary. But what’s happening now wasn’t in the dreams. “My Russian-language magaz...