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Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine🇺🇦 All-Ukrainian organization, uniting 163 communities, dedicated to saving lives and reviving Jewish tradition

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Joined November 2011
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The Torah in Ukrainian — for the First Time in Ukraine’s History The #FJCU presented the first complete edition of the #Torah in the #Ukrainian language. This historic publication is the result of years of meticulous work by a dedicated team of translators, linguists, and rabbis
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Unique #Jewish Gravestone Discovered in #Kosiv, Shedding New Light on the Community’s History A matzevah dating back to 1691 has been discovered in the town of Kosiv, Ivano-Frankivsk Region. It is now the oldest gravestone documented within the Kosiv territorial community
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A memorial ceremony was held at the #Sosonky ravine in #Rivne to mark the 85th anniversary of the mass murder of the city’s Jewish population. In 1941, Nazi forces executed around 17,500 people at the site, including men, women and children.
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#Chernivtsi Jewish Community Supports Ukrainian Border Guards The #JewishCommunity of Chernivtsi has provided financial support for Ukrainian border guards, helping to fund the purchase of equipment designed to counter enemy drones.
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The Chaplain Visits Ukrainian #Defenders on the Eastern Front During his visit, the chaplain met with service personnel, spoke with them, offered spiritual support and delivered humanitarian aid.
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Rabbi Meir Stambler, the Chairman of the #FJCU, has spoken to Israeli television channel “Arutz 7” about the situation in Ukraine ahead of winter, amid Russian attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure. inn.co.il/news/709181?utm_so…
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Jewish Ukrainian Serviceman Wounded in FPV #Drone Attack The Kyiv #Jewish_community in Obolon has reported that Grigory Pivovarov, a Jewish serviceman defending Ukraine in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has been wounded in an enemy FPV drone attack.
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Odesa Commemorates #Holocaust Victims. The event was organised at the initiative of the Board of the Association of Former Prisoners of Ghettos and Nazi Concentration Camps to honour the memory of the Jews and prisoners of war who were killed there in October 1941.
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Volunteers from the #Lviv Volunteer Center of the “Hesed-Arieh” Charitable Foundation continue to discover fragments of ancient Jewish tombstones, known as matzevot, as well as entire gravestones that have survived outside the boundaries of the historic #Jewish cemetery.
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Chernivtsi Commemorates the Victims of the #Holocaust A memorial event was held in Chernivtsi to honour the victims of the Jewish ghetto and the deportation of Chernivtsi’s Jewish population to the camps of Transnistria in October 1941.
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Dnipro Commemorates #Jewish Victims of the 1941 Massacre On 13–14 October 1941, 85 years ago, the Nazis shot around 13,000 Jews in Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro). The site of the mass murder was a ravine on the grounds of the Botanical Garden’s tree nursery.
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Activists from the Lviv Volunteer Center, run by the “Hesed-Arieh” Charitable Foundation, have transported one more batch of fragments of the discovered Jewish tombstones, an important part of the #Jewish_community’s historical heritage in #Lviv.
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Kharkiv #JewishCommunity Helps Residents Affected by Russian Strikes. Community representatives went to neighbourhoods where help was particularly needed, bringing residents essential supplies, including bread and water.
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On the yahrzeit of Dov-Ber Schneerson, the brother of the Seventh #LubavitcherRebbe, Menachem-Mendel Schneerson, the members of the #JewishCommunity of #Dnipro gathered at the memorial on the grounds of the regional psychiatric hospital in Ihren.
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🇺🇦 FJCU and 7th Air Assault Corps Chaplain Meets with Young People of Dnipro At the invitation of Dnipro Lyceum No. 148 “Planet of Happiness”, Rabbi Yakiv Sinyakov, the Chaplain of the #FJCU, met with its students for an event marking Ukraine’s Day of Defenders and Defendresses
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Jewish Communities Across Ukraine Mark Hoshana Rabbah and Welcome Simchat Torah On the final day of Sukkot, the Jewish communities throughout Ukraine observed the mitzvot of the festival, marked Hoshana Rabbah and started their preparations for #SimchatTorah.
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Ahead of #SimchatTorah, the final festival of the month of Tishrei, the Jewish community of Chernivtsi prepared to celebrate one of the most joyful days in the Jewish calendar.
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A missile strike on Pryluky killed 22 people, including five children, and injured 54 others. One Jewish family’s apartment was completely destroyed, while several others were damaged. FJCU remains in close contact with the local Jewish community.
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On 30 September, 19 Tishrei, #Mykolaiv hosted the traditional “Jewish Street Festival - Simchat Beit HaShoeva”, bringing together the representatives of the Jewish organisations and the members of the community ahead of #Sukkot.
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Holocaust Victims Commemorated in Ternopil Memorial events were held in Ternopil to mark the 85th anniversary of the #BabynYar tragedy.
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A memorial ceremony dedicated to the victims of the #Holocaust was held in Oleksandriia. The event was attended by the representatives of the city authorities, including the First Deputy Mayor, Rabbi Shlomo David Salamon of Kremenchuk, the representatives of the Jewish community
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