🇷🇺 Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar has said he is wary of religious instruction in state schools, saying secular teachers are not prepared to teach such subjects.

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🇷🇺 July 14 In Sevastopol, the memory of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust was honored. Mourning events were held at the monument to the victims of the Holocaust in the Matyushenko microdistrict. Representatives of the Jewish community of Sevastopol gathered to honor the memory of 4,200 civilians shot by the Nazis in 1942.

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🇺🇦 The Karlin-Stolin Hasidic synagogue in Zhitomir, Ukraine, was partially destroyed by fire. This wooden synagogue is one of the few that have survived since 1900.

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🇺🇦 The car of the Chief Rabbi of Kherson, Chabad emissary Yitzhak Wolf, was struck by a drone while he was driving with his family. The rabbi and his family were not injured.

"We were heading to Kherson, about a mile and a half from a military checkpoint," Rabbi Wolf said.

The airbags deployed instantly, and the Wolf family was able to escape without any physical injuries.
"We are alive thanks to a miracle," Wolf concluded.

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🇧🇾 The first Holocaust and Resistance Museum in the country will open in the Belarusian city of Novogrudok, where one of the largest ghettos in the region was located during World War II. This was reported by the portal 1prof.by with reference to the chairman of the Jewish Religious Association in the Republic of Belarus Artur Livshits.

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🇲🇩 This week is the 84th anniversary of the creation of the Kishinev Ghetto

On July 26, 1941, a ghetto was created in occupied Kishinev.
More than 11,500 Jews were driven there.
People died of hunger, typhus, violence and executions. In the fall, deportations to the camps of Transnistria began.

By the spring of 1942, almost no one was left alive.

In memory of the victims and for the sake of preserving the historical truth, the Jewish Community of the Republic of Moldova is organizing a series of events:

July 24, 16:00
ROUND TABLE "Stumbling Blocks"
Jewish Community Center, str. E. Doga, 5
History and goals of the Stolpersteine project
Plans for the installation of memorial stones in Chisinau and other cities

July 24, 18:00
Laying flowers and stones at the monument to the victims of the Chisinau ghetto

July 24, 18:15
Walking tour "Chisinau ghetto: the route of memory"
Start from Ierusalimska street
Along the streets where thousands of lives were locked up. In the footsteps of the tragedy that the city remembers.

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🇷🇺 Four Chabadites Detained in St. Petersburg: They Were Dancing Near the FSB Building

Four Orthodox Jews have been detained in St. Petersburg: two US citizens, an Israeli, and a city resident. According to the police, they were stopped near the FSB building on Liteiny Prospekt and charged with petty hooliganism. The reason for the arrest was dancing and taking photos on the street. The incident is being discussed in the Jewish community: it is assumed that the group was traveling along a route associated with the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, who was arrested in this area in 1927 and later expelled from the USSR. From 1924 to 1927, he lived on Mokhovaya. From there, on June 14, 1927, OGPU officers took him away, arrested him, and put him in prison. The rebbe was then sentenced to death by firing squad, but his sentence was replaced by exile, and then he was expelled from the USSR.

Among those detained was a 20-year-old resident of St. Petersburg, listed on the website of the Great Choral Synagogue as a messenger of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

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🇺🇦 Tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Recognized as National Monument of Ukraine

In an unprecedented move, the Ukrainian government has officially recognized the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman as a national monument, granting it the highest level of state protection. The Union of Breslov Hasidim in Uman is currently assessing the practical implications of this decision and the potential benefits for the city’s Jewish community and the thousands of people who visit Uman each year, especially for Rosh Hashanah. The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture has designated the tomb as a historical site of paramount importance, paying tribute to the founder of Breslov Hasidism. This new status ensures the preservation of the site for future generations and enhances its significance at the national level.

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