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Ukraine

Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky Visits Ukrainian Orphans

Secured by Chabad Headquarters, a generous grant allows the weary Zhytomyr community to begin rebuilding their lives

By Yoni Brown

May 12, 2022

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Podcast

Lamplighters 1 Year Anniversary: Our Favorite Stories

The 23rd episode in its series about the personal struggles and achievements of Chabad representatives

By Staff Writer

May 3, 2022

Passover

Massive Pesach Seders Welcome Refugees Across Europe

This Pesach, Chabad centers across Europe are hosting the largest seders in their history

By Yoni Brown

April 15, 2022

Ukraine

Vienna Springs into Action to Take In Ukrainian Students

The Lauder Chabad School in Vienna is going to extreme lengths to accommodate 700 Ukrainian refugee families—free of charge.

By Yoni Brown

April 13, 2022

Ukraine

California Rabbi & Ohio Trucker Rescue Paralyzed Grandmother in Ukraine

A baffling plea for help reached Rabbi Mendy and Esther Harlig on March 7th. A member of their Chino Hills, California community asked if the…

By Yoni Brown

March 30, 2022

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Ukraine

Sivan Rahav Meir Interviews Rabbi Shlomo Peles

It was almost midnight when I walked into the fully equipped Crisis Management Room. Magen David Adom has situated their mobile command center in the…

By Yoni Brown

March 29, 2022

Podcast

Ep. 21: Two Dramatic Journeys Out Of Ukrainian War Zones

The 21st episode in its series about the personal struggles and achievements of Chabad representatives

By Staff Writer

March 23, 2022

Ukraine

Yeka Counselors Drop Everything to Be With Ukrainian Campers

When shells began exploding in Dnipro, Ukraine, Chabad’s local Mironova Boys’ School for Orphans decided it was time to leave. Mironova’s “parents”, David and Liora…

By Yoni Brown

March 22, 2022

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Ukraine

Hero’s Welcome for Chernigov’s Shluchim

The Russian siege trapped Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein, his wife Alizah, and their nine children in Chernigov, Ukraine. When the bombs began to fall, they miraculously…

By Staff Writer

March 9, 2022

Campus

Students Surprise Refugees with Busload of Food

Students touring Poland with Chabad on Campus responded to an unexpected chance to assist Ukrainian refugees

By Yoni Brown

March 9, 2022

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Ukraine

A War And a Wedding

Two Chabad emissary families travel through embattled areas, past army checkpoints and six countries, to a wedding celebration.

By Rena Udkoff

March 4, 2022

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Ukraine

Dispatches From Ukraine: “Thousands of Jews and Israelis are arriving in our city”

We’ve received countless phone calls from around the world, asking if we can help bring Jews to Lviv from eastern cities and help them across…

By Rabbi Menachem Gottlib

March 3, 2022

Ukraine

Dispatches from Ukraine: “We’re evacuating the Jewish community”

We set out on what would become a twenty-four-hour drive to the Romanian border. We didn’t breathe until we got across the border

By Rabbi Ariel Markovitch

March 1, 2022

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Ukraine

Dispatches from Ukraine: “We’re Facing a Humanitarian Crisis”

We’re just sixty miles from the Russian border, and Russian forces have surrounded the city

By Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein

February 28, 2022

Ukraine

Healthcare for the Body and Soul

Chabad at forefront of vaccine distribution effort in Ukraine

By Mussi Sharfstein

July 11, 2021

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Ukraine

President Zelenskyy Meets With Jewish Leaders

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Ukrainian Jewish leaders, among them many Chabad emissaries, to discuss safety and compliance with pandemic regulations during the upcoming High…

By Staff Writer

August 27, 2020

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Ukraine

LUGANSK: Forgotten Refugees, Emissaries in Exile, Jewish Community Holds On

In the summer of 2014, Chana Gopin, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Lugansk, Ukraine sat down to write the 150th editor’s letter of The World of…

May 5, 2016