Volunteering in Moldova with Ukrainian refugees
Steve LipmanMar 24, 2022
During the second week of Russia’s war in Ukraine, when it became clear that a major refugee crisis was in the making, Israel’s United Hatzalah organization put out...
Purim under siege
Steve LipmanMar 23, 2022
For a few dozen Jewish Ukrainian Jews who gathered last week for the reading of the Megillah on Purim, the words of the Scroll of Esther centered on the victory of...
Satmar opens refugee guest house in Hungary
Steve LipmanMar 17, 2022
In a small town near Hungary’s northern border with Slovakia, a chasidic group has joined the international lineup of Jewish organizations opening their doors — in...
Kherson falls to Russia; rabbi stays with his flock
Steve LipmanMar 16, 2022
For the leader of the Jewish community in one city in southern Ukraine, the new normal is Russian tanks in the street and Russian soldiers on the sidewalk that he...
From Shabbat hosts of 60 frightened Jews to a 60-hour flight
Steve LipmanMar 10, 2022
The Moskovitz family of Chabad emissaries, who have led the Jewish community in Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine during the three decades since the collapse of the Soviet...
British rabbi proposes ‘Ukraine transport’
Steve LipmanMar 10, 2022
The child of a young Jew who was saved by England in 1938 proposes a project similar to the Nazi-era “Kindertransport” for victims of Russian aggression in Ukraine...
Report from Kharkiv: Shabbat in a war zone
Steve LipmanMar 03, 2022
rabbis at the Choral Synagogue in Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine didn’t have a problem getting a minyan for worship services on Saturday, Feb. 26 — 60 people are...
The plight of Jews escaping Ukraine
Steve LipmanMar 03, 2022
During WW II, thousands of Polish Jews fearing for their lives, headed east, eventually finding refuge in distant Siberia and Kazakhstan. During the current war,...
Sailing through history on the Hudson
Steve LipmanMar 03, 2022
A Monsey resident — by way of Germany and Spain — says he will emulate the footsteps of Jewish travelers from the 17th-19th centuries this spring, aboard a...
Orthodox Jewish bobsledder has Olympic dreams
Steve LipmanNov 25, 2021
CHANUKAH 5782 SECTION D PAGE 5 NEW YORK — November is an important month for AJ Edelman. That’s when Edelman, a day school graduate from Boston who made aliyah...
