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The Information Analytical Edition Of The 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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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.

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.

BIG
DAY

First commandment father should do to his son is circumcision (Britt Mila). That's how the life of a young boy begins.

JUDAISM
IN RUSSIA
Values of the Jewish tradition have preserved the nation. Eminent figures of the Jewish community speak about the role of religion in the life of Russian Jews.

Values of the Jewish tradition have preserved the nation. Eminent figures of the Jewish community speak about the role of religion in the life of Russian Jews.

IRAQI
JEWS
The threat of an armed conflict gathering, a tiny Jewish community in Baghdad thinks with horror what is ahead of it.

Last active synagogue in Baghdad

LAST IRAQI JEWS

YAN KOBAIN

In one of the poorest Baghdad's quarters, where sewage flows right along the streets and heaps of garbage are scattered everywhere, live the last of those who once belonged to one of most prosperous communities of Jewish Diaspora.

50 years ago 350 thousand Jews resided in Iraq. Now there are 38 Jews left in its capital. Basra may boast of one elderly Jewish woman. In Mosul and Amar, where Jews resided for over two thousand years, there is not a trace of their communities at all.