Sukkot is fun and joy, fellowship and unity. It was interesting everywhere: in the school holiday, in sukkah in the synagogue and of course in sukkah on the river bank outside the city. The mitzva of blessing for the 4 plants has been performed by hundreds of Jews of Lugansk and region. The sukkah at the synagogue was not empty despite the constant rain. Every day there was a meal, visitors and guests came, laughter and congratulations filled the air. The Beit Menachem school students with parents and teachers staged a grand event at which teams improved their knowledge of Jewish tradition, built unusual sukkahs, collected puzzles, played and sang.
And outside the city in the country the most cold-resistant Jews gathered. And they did not … Читать дальше »
Recently the first time in decades a newly built synagogue of Chernivtsi saw a solemn introduction of the first scroll of Torah. Immediately after the holidays of Tishrei and Simchat Torah Felix Vulis donated this holy book to the Chernivtsi synagogue. Many years ago the family of Felix Vulis lived in front of the synagogue. Feliks learned about the restoration and opening of the synagogue which took place with the direct participation and assistance of the Lubavitcher Rebbe shluchim Rabbi Menachem Mendel and Pnina Glinsshtain and decided to donate the scroll of Torah.
Nelly Shulman, the new consul of Israel in the Dnepropetrovsk region and director of the Center of Culture of Israel visited Krivoy Rog. Mrs. Shulman took her position in August 2011 and this is her first official visit to Krivoy Rog.
It is already a good tradition to pay a tribute of love to people of the Beit Baruch house for elderly people by the students of Beit-Chana International Institute every year on the International Day of Elderly People. A piece of warmth and light, which the students of Beit-Chana traditionally share with those who had a difficult path in life through war, famine and regime changes and who created lots of good for the next generation.
On September 28, 2011 inIvano-Frankivsk regionmembers of the Jewishreligious communitywith the support ofsponsorshaveimpeccably renovated thememorial grave inthe Sheparivskiy wood of Kolomyiadistrict wheremore thanthreethousand Jews were killed during the World War Two.
