On May 26th the administration and the students of the Bet-Chana Women Teacher Training College of Dnepropetrovsk had meeting with the Knesset of Israel, the Chairman of the Committee for Education, Culture and Sport Mr. Alex Miller. The guest visited the Beit-Baruch House for aged people and the Ohr Avner Chabad-Lyubavitch Jewish school number 144. In the evening of the day Mr. Miller dedicated to the Bet-Chana Women Teacher Training College and attended the students hostel.
The President of the college rav Meyer Stambler told Mr. Miller about the perspectives of Bet-Chana and the plans of construction of the new modern campus. The director of the college Stanislav Sapozhnikov, rav Moishe Weber and the Deputy of director for Education Vi… Читать дальше »
The Bemidbar chapter begins with the order of G-d to count Jews one more time. Why one more time? The point is that for the 13 months after Jews left Egypt Jews have been counted for the third time. 
The Jewish community of Cherkassy celebrated this merry holiday on the Dnieper river banks. The weather was fine and the celebration began with the parade. Children held posters with mitzvahs of Torah on them. The Jewish school pupils declared psukim. The people present applauded to every child. Then everyone went to picnic around a large fire. This was the time to have fun.
On Sunday morning Jews gathered near the synagogue of Lugansk preparing for the Lag ba Omer parade. Everything was directed by the Head rabi of the Lugansk region Shalom Gopin. He announced the beginning of the parade. The first were drummers, then children wuth little trumpets followed by the students of the Beit Menachem school and after them their parents, members of the community and guests. About 300 people went along the central street of the city. The children and adultes held posters with Jewish mitsvas and air balloons with the Lag ba Omer symbols. Adults and children sang Jewish songs and got smiles of the passers by. It is worth mentioning that the Lugansk citizens are tolerant to the Jewish community. The Jewish holidays are cel… Читать дальше »
One of the bright holidays of the Jewish calendar is the Lag ba-Omer. It is celebrated on the 18th day of the month of Iyar and has deep history.
The director of the Jewish school of Krivoy Rog Svetlana Skripchuk took part in the seminar of the directors of Jewish schools of CIA which was held from 3rd till 5th of May nearby Moscow, Russian Federation
On the 27th day of Omer count the city of Belaya Tserkov was visited by the Rebe Chernobyl’ Izrail’ Bney Brak. Together with a group of chassids he came to pray at the tomb of his grand father in Belaya Tserkov and to pray Kadish Yatom. After his prayer the Rebe visited the Jewish community, took an excursion to the place of prayer of min’yan. The Rebe also visited the Ohr Avner kindergarten and blessed the workers for the noble labour of bringing up Jewish children in these hard crisis times. The crisis comes and goes but the traditions of the Jewish people will remain forever.
On May, 11 in the School #85 of the Krivoy Rog city the Region Schools Competitions Winners Award took place. To this event the pupils of the 4th form of the Ohr Avner school of Krivoy Rog received the Winners’ Invitation.
Before May, 9 in the premises of the Chabad organization of Kherson a traditional event dedicated to the 66th Anniversary of the Victory in World War Two took place. This year the event was dedicated to the city of Kherson and its heroes. The participants went to a virtual journey with the help of a video projector a took a walk through the streets, squares and parks of their native town. The children learned much new about the heroes of their city with whose names many streets are named. They also learned about the bravery of the Heroes of the Soviet Union P.A. Pokryshev and N.Z. Vydrigan and virtually visited the monument of the famous Kherson citizens: the heads of the Motherland Patriot organization Ilya Kylik and Nikolay Subbota, … Читать дальше »
This week the family of the Pervomaysk rabi Levi Izhak Perlstein caused an unofficial visit to the Mayor of the town of Prevomaysk Lyudmila Dromashko. The meeting took place in a warm a friendly atmosphere. The Mayor accepted the delegation and listened with interest. During the visit the questions concerning some issues of the Jewish community life in the town and questions of solving some problems of the Jewish population by the local authorities of the town were raised. In the end of the visit the rabi presented the Mayor a gift. We hope this visit to start a long and fruitful cooperation between the local authorities and the Jewish community of the town.
Last week the students of the 1st course of the Women Teacher Training College Bet-Chana, Dnepropetrovsk, together with the high school students of the machon Chaya-Mushka went to an exciting journey within the framework of the Masa-Shorashim Annual Ethno-cultural Project. This project gives the girls the opportunity to know their ethnic roots visiting historical places connected with the Jewish history from its beginning to the Holocaust. This year they traveled through the cities of Western Ukraine: L’viv, Berdichiv, Brody, Medzhibozh, Rovno, Zhitomir and Chernovtsy. during the journey the girls were accompanied by the Ph. D. in History and mentor Osnat Helb. They all visited old synagogues and places of burial and memorials, s… Читать дальше »
Before the celebration of the 66th Anniversary of Victory in the World War Two the traditional museum lessons took place in the Ohr Menachem school of Nikolayev in the school museum for Holocaust studies. It is worth mentioning that boys and girls themselves were the teachers for their classmates and younger school boys and girls. Such lessons help pupils to involve in the museum work and prepares them for the excursions for the guests of the school.
From 1st till 5th of May the Educational resource center of the Mahale Fund which works on the basis of the Beth-Chana Сollege in Dnepropetrovsk was visited by the guests from Israel. Annually within the program of cooperation and experience exchange specialists on work with children with special needs from Gordon-College of Haifa visit the center. This cooperation lasts for over 10 years and is very fruitful. As the Head of the Center Svetlana Yakovlevna says they have such visits twice a year and hold regular video conferences with the specialist from Israel.
On May 2, the Day of Memory of the Victims of the Catastrophe the representatives of the Jewish organizations of Zaporozhye came to the Place of the mass burial of Jews who perished during the Nazi occupation to honor the victims. With pain in their heart people told about their families and friends who died and spoke of that spiritual power that helped to keep the faith, religion, morality and humanity.
From 6th to 15th of April the final stage of the Teacher of the Year All-Ukrainian Contest took place in Kirovograd. This stage was dedicated to Arts. 27 teachers from different cities of Ukraine who won in the second stage took part in the third stage together with the winner of the second Dnepropetrovsk region tour Larisa Povkh. They showed their working procedures and displayed the skills and professionalism in working with children.