* Summer Camp Becomes Haven for Refugees * Top 5 Places To See in Ukraine * FJC’s Kindergarten Network Read...
Month: August 2014

Jewish Mariupol Sits Tight as Tanks Roll Into Ukraine
By Dovid Margolin – Chabad.org During the summer months of any other year, southeastern Ukraine’s seaside city of Mariupol would draw scores...

Israeli Knesset Members Visit Kharkov
The welfare of the many refugees who have fled the cities of Lugansk and Donentsk to Kharkov and other cities...

On the Journey to Freedom * Escaping from Lugansk
It was impossible to get David and Daniel to get a rest this afternoon. They ran across the FJC’s and...

First Jewish Refugee Camp Opens in Ukraine; Many Still Trapped in East
When Tatyana fled the beleaguered eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk late last week, she felt relieved just to have made...

‘Mitzvah tanks’ set off across Russia
By RT.com Rabbis and students of Jewish religious schools from the US, Europe, and Israel have set off on a...

President Putin Honors Rabbi Lazar
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin presented the Chief Rabbi of Russia, Berel Lazar, with a special medal for his “contribution to the...