An interview with Aliza Silberstein, who fled with her family. including nine children I woke up at 4 a.m. this past Friday morning; I couldn’t fall back asleep. Late Thursday afternoon, I had interviewed Aliza Silberstein, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Chernigov, Ukraine. She had just arrived to safety in Romania after a 50-hour, harrowing journey. She […]

End of a perilous journey from Zhitomir to Romania to Tel Aviv A group of 90 young refugees from a children’s home in Zhitomir, Ukraine, arrived at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport where they were greeted by Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and other cabinet ministers, ending a grueling, five-day journey through a deadly war zone. […]

Two Chabad emissary families travel through embattled areas, past army checkpoints and six countries, to a wedding celebration. The bride is from Russia. The groom, from Ukraine. Six hundred and fifty Jews from Kamenskoye, Ukraine, and Samara, Russia, were counting the days down to March 3, when the children of their Chabad shluchim — children […]

Ukraine Yeshiva of Dnipropetrovsk moves to safety in Paris, France, to study at the Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch Yeshiva in Brunoy until the war is over.

So far, Lviv has been relatively unscathed, air raid sirens go off occasionally, but no bombs have fallen on our city. We’re just fifty miles from the Polish border. Last week, thousands of Jews and Israelis began arriving in our city, hoping to cross the border into Poland. They are fleeing the bombings and violence […]

Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Wolff stayed behind, determined to help those in need Worry for Kherson abounds after the city of close to 300,000 fell, the largest Ukrainian city Russian forces have occupied to date. While many fled while they still could, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Wolff, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Kherson, stayed behind, determined to assist […]

A coordinated effort provides shelter and resettlement from Romania to Cyprus Not since the Holocaust have there been this many Jewish refugees in Europe. As humanitarian agencies sound the alarm on what may become the continent’s worst refugee crisis in 80 years, with the U.N. reporting that more than one million refugees have fled embattled […]

Rising to meet a myriad of challenges as Ukrainian Jewry disperses They outlasted Stalin’s terror and famine in the 1930s and the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews in the 1940s. And they remained even after the waves of mass immigration of the 1990s. But today, tens of thousands of Ukraine’s weary Jews are leaving their […]

Ukraine’s second largest city being reduced to rubble; have reached Dnipro safely A few dozen members of the Jewish community of Kharkov (Kharkiv), Ukraine, made a last-minute break out of the decimated city this morning and have arrived safely in Dnipro. The Jewish community convoy included local Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries. “This morning we still wanted to […]