Last February, it seemed like every store in Donetsk was closed. It was nearly impossible to buy anything. And prices to buy what little food and supplies were left were outrageous.
Galina Fokina, 66, felt like she was barely hanging on. Thoughts of leaving Ukraine and making aliyah cro…
When Sophia, a JDC social welfare caretaker in Donetsk, was visiting a 97-year-old client one morning, a massive explosion shook the building. Sophia was shaken, but she quickly resumed her daily duties: cleaning her client, cooking breakfast, and after making sure she was OK, going to her n…
As a teenager during World War II, Aza and her mother fled to Central Asia after the Nazis invaded her native Ukraine and her father was killed on the front lines. Even when it was considered safe enough to return, mother and daughter stayed away. With their hometown destroyed, they had noth…
Their dream was more than seven years in the making. Aleksandrina, their teenage daughter, was the first one to complete the journey. Before fighting erupted in eastern Ukraine, she moved to a Jewish Agency absorption center in Karmiel to learn about Israeli society, study Hebrew and prepare…
courtesy of Mark Levin with NCEJ
Last week, Jews throughout Ukraine celebrated Passover. NCSEJ Kyiv representative Ilya Bezruzhko spoke with the Ukrainian Jewish communities about their activities during the Passover holiday.
Despite the economic and humanitarian crises in the count…
