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 […]

Children are still at the beginning of a long journey A group of 140 Jewish refugee orphans and staff from Chabad’s Alumim orphanage in Zhitomir, Ukraine, arrived in the middle of the night in Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg) Romania after a grueling journey, where they were warmly welcomed by the Jewish community. Rabbi Dovber Orgad and his […]

Students from Zhitomir and Dnieper make it across the border As Ukraine descends into a humanitarian nightmare, Chabad-Lubavitch across the beleaguered nation is working day and night to evacuate the most vulnerable community members. In Zhitomir, which is currently suffering continued shelling, according to Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm, director of Chabad of Zhitomir, who has stayed […]

Some are fleeing and some remain, but all are terrified As deadly rocket assaults on Kiev (Kyiv) accelerated and the prospect of street fighting between Ukrainian defenders and advancing Russian troops became more likely, leaders of the Kiev Jewish community—speaking through third parties who said they did not know the community leaders’ locations—pleaded for prayers. […]