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
24/43 December 2002
5763 Tevet
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KRYMCHAKS
AND KARAIMS
Krymachaks have always been considered Jews, unlike Karaims who have managed to get rid of traditional anti-Jewish restrictions.
HANUKKAH
IN KRESHCHATIK
Hanukkah has been established in the central street of Ukraine's capital. Kiev's mayor A.Omelchenko lit its candles.
PRAGUE'S
WINTER
Fifty years ago Prague became a venue of trial over a group of prominent party figures - «Slansky's process», which turned out a presage to the Moscow «Doctors' case».
AT MENORAH'S
FOOT
L.Kuchma took part in opening a memorial «Drobitsky Yar». In the foundation «Drobitsky Yar» they consider 30 thousand people were killed here, Jews being the majority of them.

ALEXANDER KAGANOV

Hanukkah events of the Kiev city Jewish community began in the evening on November 30 with a film festival "Hanukkah - 5763". The next day the holiday presented a big Hanukkah concert in the MIA House of culture with the participation of city amateur collectives. Then, after the established tradition, an annual meeting of the Council of city Jewish community was held. Chief Rabbi of Kiev and Ukraine Yaakov Dov Bleich made an opening speech. The meeting discussed forthcoming elections of a new Council staff, issues related to constructing a "Heritage" center in Babiy Yar. Read


The conference of leaders of 14 Ukrainian Jewish organizations to include all regional, city and local organizations of various activity has elected a coordinating and representative body - Council of Jewish organizations' leaders of Ukraine. The Council is not a legal person; all its members are elected chairman in turn. Read


MOSHE ZIKHMIKH

Menorah towering in the center of a town house which walls are made of Jerusalem stone, a row of benches with plates bearing names of Jerusalem's central streets in Hebrew and Ukrainian, a silver bas-relief with panorama of David's tower... That's how a Jerusalem courtyard "Kikar Zion" looks. It was solemnly opened in the territory of Jewish agency December 5.
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Menorah in Drobitsky Yar, Kharkov

December 13 in Kharkov Leonid Kuchma walked along the road Nazis had driven the city inhabitants to the execution. President of Ukraine opened the memorial "Drobitsky Yar". Among those present were Israel's Ambassador Anna Azari, governor of the Kharkov region Yevgeny Kushnarev, people's deputies, sponsors of the construction, representatives of the regional Jewish community, pupils of Jewish schools, clergy of different confessions, city inhabitants. Read


TATIANA PETKO

A communal grave towering in the locality Paseka near village Yarun, Zhitomir region, is a bitter, taciturn reproach to human conscience. 60 years have passed, but people's memory preserves everything down to the smallest details... Such happenings are not forgotten, and the path leading to the burial mound remains clear. 588 people are buried there. At times people come here to honour the memory of those who died a martyr's death. Children come here to lay flowers and ask an eternal question "Why?" Read


Anna Azari

MIKHAIL DOR

Covering the Israeli-Arab conflict in world and home mass media is an acute and painful theme. Partial and biased approach to interpreting the events of recent years generates anti-Israeli and revives anti-Semitic moods in most "educated" countries. That's why an information seminar, the Embassy of Israel and WJC organized for journalists and community workers, became a necessary and long overdue step.
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Britt Mila

YELENA LITVAK

Jewish tradition is conveyed to every successive generation. Particular significance here goes to a family - interrelationship of parents and children, mutual commitments. The first commandment a father should do to his son is circumcision (Britt Mila). This rite should take place on the eighth day after boy's birth. Read

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