EMIH – Association of Hungarian Jewish Communities has expressed its support for the Jewish community in Ukraine. Chief Rabbi Shlomo Köves offered the President of the Union of Jewish Communities in Ukraine, Meir Stambler, the support of the Hungarian Jewish community, and promised Rabbi Wilhelm Mendel of Uzhhorod that if necessary, members of the Transcarpathian community will be provided with longer-term care in Hungary.
The EMIH – Association of Hungarian Jewish Communities and Chief Rabbi Shlomo Köves are following the developments in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict with great concern. Today, Shlomo Köves had a telephone conversation with Meir Stambler, President of the Union of Jewish Communities in Ukraine, Rabbi Mendel Wilhelm from Uzhhorod, and Shmuel Azman, head of the Jewish refugee village „Anatevka” for Jewish refugees in Eastern Ukraine, to whom he promised financial support.
EMIH has also offered to assist in the evacuation of Israeli citizens trapped in Ukraine, and Shlomo Köves has been in contact with Michael Brodsky, Israel’s Ambassador to Ukraine, and Yakov Hadas-Handelsman, Head of Israel’s Mission in Hungary.
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Anatevka
The Chief Rabbi of EMIH has also contacted the head of Anatevka near Kiev. Anatevka, named after the village of the milkman from the musical Fiddler on the Roof, was established in 2015 via donations, at the initiative of Rabbi Shmuel Azman of Kiev, for Jewish families fleeing the fighting in eastern Ukraine at the time. The settlement near Kiev is home to hundreds of Jewish refugees from eastern Ukraine and has been hosting additional refugees since the conflict resumed.
More information about the village: https://www.anatevka.com
Donations for the settlement and the refugees can be made via this link: https://charidy.com/Kyiv/73207
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