The Information Analytical Edition Of The Jewish Confederation Of Ukraine
Jewish Confederation of Ukraine The Information And Analytical Edition
Of The Jewish Confederation Of Ukraine
15/34 August 2002
5762 Elul
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NOT TO BE LATE
Most ancient monuments of our material culture are old Jewish cemeteries. Over 130 cemeteries are located today.
WHO WILL BE FIRST TO SURRENDER?
Split, demoralization in the Palestinian society gathers. In these conditions KHAMAS strives to play an increasing role in autonomy.
«WANDERING
STARS»
Why are neither the mayor, nor Kiev Jewish organizations worried about the fact the Jewish theatre has no premises and the status of a communal enterprise?.
ANTI-SEMITISM ON THE RIGHT AND LEFT
Impunity of anti-Semitism entails its propagation in mass media, penetration into court instances, into certain circles of intelligentsia, both rightist and leftist.

IGOR KUPERBERG

June 2, 2002 the first volume of the "Dead souls" marked its 160th anniversary. That very day the sect "Jews for Christ" stopped its "evangelizing campaign" held in Kiev over a month. What unites these two events? Read


Plundered memorial of Poninkov

S.BENRSIANOV, B.MELNICHUK

In early July local inhabitants got alarmed at the news brought by the forester V.Shvorob. He was the first to discover the traces of vandalism. People without honesty (unfortunately, they can be found everywhere) had decided to earn from metallic fence around the communal graves located it the heart of the forest. They broke the peace of the sacred place, dismantled and took away part of the cast iron fence - 30 sections. Read


DAVID MAKOVETSKY

Recently I have happened to start talking to an elderly woman on a bench under a shady tree in the yard of the Zhytomir synagogue. An obviously former beauty, the woman had just marked her 80th anniversary and came to the synagogue to pray for all her nearest, dearest and friends - alive and those passed away. Read


Torah's handover.

MIKHAIL CHASNITSKY

A significant event occurred June 17 in the life of the Jewish religious community of an ancient town Glukhov, Sumy region. The city museum of local history passed over a sacred book of the Jewish people - the Torah - to the community: "There has happened what should have happened", - the chairman of the commission on observing religious legislation D.Savitsky said during the ceremony. Read


Efraim Lapid

YEFIM SAVCHENKO

July 22 a briefing for journalists timed for a working visit to Ukraine by a "Sokhnut" press secretary Efraim Lapid was held in the building of Jewish agency "Sokhnut" in Kiev. The briefing chiefly highlighted inability of the present Palestinian leadership to reach a compromise. Read


YURY SAFIR

During the war Asya Golan, residing now in Israel, was a little girl. In 1942 fascists began actively exterminating the Jewish population of the village of Goshchi and adjacent villages in the Rovno region. Asya managed to survive in one of the farmsteads, but many of her relatives remained forever in the Goshchi forest. Read


Participants of a camp-seminar

IGOR KOVALEVSKY

For already several subsequent years the American distribution fund "Joint" organizes camps for children and youth from different regions of Ukraine. This year is not an exception. A camp-seminar "Mishpakha of Donetsk region - 2002" passed on the Azov seacoast June 17 - July 1.
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Matsevas

SABINA VIRON

Our great contemporary and artist Amadeo Modiliagni wrote, "Life, like history, predetermines no forms but only brings them to existence". Cultural and historical heritage of the people vanishes before our eyes. What forms will be activated to preserve this heritage? The main this is not to be late... Read


VALENTINA POLYAKOVA

The Kerch charitable center "Khesed Malka" creates a lapidary (depositary of stone monuments) within a museum program. These are Jewish gravestones - bearers of Jewish cultural and historical traditions - a forgotten and non-revived custom of the Jewish people in diaspora. Read

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