The director of the main synagogue in Odessa tearfully bids goodbye to the synagogue, asks people to pray for them as they evacuate during the Jewish Sabbath:
Odessa was once had the third largest Jewish population in the world. Then came pogroms, Stalin's purges, and the Nazi Holocaust. The city, once half Jewish, had fallen to 6 percent Jewish by the time the Soviet Union collapsed. And now this.
Odessa was once had the third largest Jewish population in the world. Then came pogroms, Stalin's purges, and the Nazi Holocaust. The city, once half Jewish, had fallen to 6 percent Jewish by the time the Soviet Union collapsed. And now this.
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@Yair_Rosenberg Remember Hillel: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?” Fight, don't retreat. Fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. Now, more than ever, people need protectors. "If not me, who?"
@Yair_Rosenberg I am so sorry this is happening in Ukraine.