Urgent Appeal: Matzah and Food Packages for the Jews of Ukraine
With Passover only days away, FJC is determined to make sure every Jewish family and individual remaining in Ukraine will be able to celebrate Passover, the Festival of Freedom, with dignity and joy – with Matzah, Passover Seder kits, and Kosher food packages directly delivered to their homes and shelters. Calling upon world Jewry and […]
Displaced Teacher Helps Ukraine Children Find Haven in Online School
Miriam Alexandrov of Dnipro continues her work from afar In a time of unrelenting chaos and fear for the children of Dnipro, who are scattered around the world, an online version of their school back home in Ukraine has become a safe place to connect with friends, have fun and pray for peace together. It […]
Request from Ukraine Rabbis: Fill an Extra Chair at Your Seder for a Jew in Ukraine
A call for solidarity at the Seder with those who can’t attend one Six weeks into the crisis in Ukraine, and Passover—the season of freedom—is on everyone’s minds. While Ukraine Jews hope and pray for a speedy resolution to the situation (and the world along with them), Passover preparations in Ukraine are in full swing, […]
Refugees from Ukraine Band Together for Their First Passover in Israel
FJC Rabbis and Chabad secure a variety of venues for community Seders Growing up in the early 1990s in Kiev, capital of the newly independent Ukraine, Esther Koronskaya didn’t celebrate Passover. Seventy years of Communist repression had done its job on her family, and the Jewish traditions of their ancestors had been all but forgotten. Now 34 years […]
Vienna: EnerJew Youth Movement Shabbaton Surprises Jewish Teenage Refugees
When EnerJew’s teenage members from Riga and Tallinn arrived for an experiential Shabbaton Seminar in Vienna, the capital of Austria, they didn’t expect to be joined by another seven EnerJew members from the movement’s branches in Ukraine who are now refugees temporarily residing in the city. Over 40 Jewish teenagers between the ages of 12 […]
How Jews in Ukraine Will Celebrate Passover This Year
50,000 Seder kits with matzah and other holiday necessities are on the way They will be in shelters, private homes, refugee camps, synagogues, and other locations. But come what may, when night falls on Passover eve on April 15, the Jews of Ukraine will pause to eat matzah and bitter herbs, drink four cups of […]
Krivoy-Rog: New Torah Scroll Inaugurated in Central Ukrainian City
Despite the current tragic situation, more than 200 Jewish community members from the Ukrainian city of Krivoy-Rog in the Dnepropetrovsk region celebrated an especially exciting torah scroll inauguration in the city’s central synagogue. “Our spirits will forever be free ” Rabbi Liron Edrei, the city’s rabbi, stated during the event. Krivoy-Rog is the largest center […]
Across Ukraine Urgent Evacuations and Aid Continue Daily
Ramping up mass evacuation efforts from east Ukraine Jewish capital; In Mykolaiv City’s rabbi directs the distribution of thousands of food packages from afar For weeks the eastern city of Dnipro—Ukraine’s fourth-largest city with almost a million people and an estimated 50,000 Jews—was a haven of relative calm amid the other cities. With its advanced […]
Thousands of Ukraine Refugees in Europe and Israel Take a Joyous Break for Purim
With the support of the FJC, thousands of Jewish refugees from across Ukraine celebrated the holiday far from home Late on Tuesday, Miriam Moskovitz, FJC representative and Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Kharkiv, Ukraine with her husband Rabbi Moshe Moskovitz, received a text from a woman in her community and a photo of fresh-baked hamantaschen. Given that […]
Cherkassy Jewish Community Provides Shelter for Others Even as They Live in Fear
FJC representatives and Chabad emissaries provide buses, food and prayer to save lives and raise spirits For centuries, Jews have called Cherkassy, Ukraine, and its environs home. Even in the middle of the current deadly conflict, many Jews have decided to remain in this town on the banks of the Dnipro River, some 112 miles […]