Yekaterinoslav Today

Rabbi Levi Yitzchak fought courageously to uphold Jewish life in Yekaterinoslav, where he served as rabbi. Now, renamed Dnipropetrovsk, it has experienced a Jewish renaissance beyond belief.

My Passover in Dnepropetrovsk

A Memorable Trip to the Rebbe's Childhood City

By Naftali Silberberg

I was looking forward to what promised to be a new and fascinating experience. And Dnepropetrovsk isn't just any European city—it is the city where the Rebbe spent much of his childhood...

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Historic Ukrainian Wedding Pairs Soviet Dissidents’ Great-Grandchildren

By Dovid Zaklikowski

Exactly seventy years after the Soviets closed his grandfather's school Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, Shneur Zalman Futerfas married Yehudis Kaminetzky, daughter of the city's celebrated chief rabbi, in front of a flourishing Jewish school in the same city.

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World’s Largest Jewish Center Opens in Dnepropetrovsk

By Tamar Runyan

The world’s largest Jewish community center opens to the public this Sunday with a 10-hour schedule of events, but the buzz around the new Menorah Center in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, is palpable following the private opening yesterday of its Jewish Memory and Holocaust Museum.

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Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson

A mystic and scholar, he wrote commentaries on the most esoteric texts. As rabbi of a major Ukrainian city, he struggled valiantly to strengthen Judaism, in spite of Soviet intimidation.