Eastern Europe
Approximately one-third of all Holocaust survivors in the United States live in poverty.
Helmets and vests will arrive following a request made by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, said Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz.
“Vanda Semyonovna lived through unimaginable horrors,” says Rabbi Mendel Cohen, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Mariupol and the Ukrainian port city’s lone rabbi. “She was a kind, joyous woman, a special person who will forever remain in our hearts.”
Funds are being used for housing, clothing, medical and mental-health services, life-saving rescue operations, security and transportation for refugees, including those making aliyah to Israel.
They are similar to ones that blamed the coronavirus pandemic on a Jewish conspiracy.
The assistance offers a minimum of four months of tuition and a living stipend; researchers are also being matched with faculty members.
Israeli officials believe the situation is “under control.”
In addition to helping with evacuations of Ukrainians, the organization’s team members in Ukraine and neighboring countries are helping to meet the needs of the aged and vulnerable, including providing them with Passover supplies.
Kyiv Chief Rabbi Yonatan Markovitch was forced to flee Ukraine shortly after Russia invaded. Although the war turned him and his wife, Ina, into refugees, the two continue to spare no effort in helping Jews in the Ukrainian capital with food, accommodations, medicine and more.
With branches on both coasts, Hebrew Public is welcoming newly arrived children with a Ukrainian Jewish administrator leading the initiative.
Countries closer to Russia, such as Poland and the Baltic States, always had a firmer grasp of the danger, “but if you look at the Netherlands, Portugal, Luxembourg, there’s still this sense that Russia is far away,” says Bruno Lété, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
The European Union aims to remove its dependency on Russian gas, oil and coal by 2027.
