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(Photo: Association of Communities)
Ukrainian Jewry – Preparing for the day after. Two and a half months after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Ukrainian Jewry is rethinking its course. At a special meeting held in New York, with the participation of representatives of community rabbis and Chabad emissaries in Ukraine, which dealt with long-term planning for the situation and well-being of Ukrainian Jews and Jews, a significant decision was made.
At the summit, which lasted a long day, there was a comprehensive and detailed overview of the rescue and rescue activities of hundreds of thousands of Jews in safe places, welfare and charity activities with refugees from the war who are temporarily staying in all countries.
The highlight of the meeting was: the gradual opening of the institutions and the careful return of the community rabbis and Chabad emissaries to their hometown. Today, 155 rabbis serve in about 30 different communities in Ukrainian cities. In their cities of residence.
Some of the communities suffered a severe blow following the war, led by the community in the ruined city of Mariupol. And yet, in some cities, there were still many Jews left, who were not allowed to cross the state borders due to their age of enlistment, or adults who were physically difficult.
Since the outbreak of the war, most rabbis and many members of their congregations have been rescued in special rescue operations. And yet, the rabbis continued to remotely manage the communities, with the flow of food and life-saving equipment to the Jews who remained in the communities. It should be noted that in some places, such as in the cities of Dnipro, Odessa, Kherson, etc., the rabbis remained in their place of residence.
The physical return of the rabbis of the communities and Chabad emissaries to the countries that left with the outbreak of the war will try to mend the rifts in the communities, preserve what is left of them and redevelop the community institutions.
The participating rabbis
The summit was attended by the host Rabbi Moshe Kotlersky, a tour guide for senior education officials from the Chabad emissaries around the world, and who is leading the fundraising efforts in a variety of channels. For the past 32 years, members of the Rabbinical Committee and Chabad emissaries in Ukraine – including the rabbi of Dnieper, who has been in the Ukrainian city since the outbreak of the war, Rabbi Shmuel Kaminecki, rabbi of Odessa Rabbi Avraham Wolf, rabbi of western Ukraine Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm of Zhitomir, rabbi of Kharkiv Rabbi Moshe Moskowitz, Rabbi Pinchas Vishtzky of Donetsk / Kyiv; Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Peles and Rabbi David Mondshein from the board of the Association of Jewish Communities.
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