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the inescapable paradox of Jew-
ish life emerged: the impulse,
nurtured by people like Rabbi
Baksht and groups like the
American Jewish Joint Distrib-
ution Committee, to continue the
immense task of rebuilding Jew-
ish life and instilling Jewish iden-
tity; and the one, nurtured by the
Jewish Agency, to encourage
aliyah to Israel.
Mission member Kenneth
Cowin, managing director at
Bear Stearns, wondered "if it's
really in our interest to send
everyone to Israel in a place
where anti-Semi-
tism is tolerable.
Perhaps there is a
future for some of
them here."
Indeed, Odessa
has a Jewish may-
or. And Jews no
longer hide their religion as they
did during communism. There
now are two synagogues: Rabbi
Baksht's Odessa Main Syna-
gogue, and the Brodsky Syna-
gogue. Before communism there
were 14; during communism just
one, to serve port workers. But
the Nachlat Eliezer Synagogue
collapsed several years ago from
water damage to its foundation.
Jewish groups have organized
a highly praised Jewish library
that is part of the Odessa system.
In small but tangible ways,
Jewish life is being nurtured
through a network of agencies
that tend to the elderly, support
an orphanage, run programs for
children and operate a vibrant
aliyah youth club.
Gemilut Chessed is one such
active welfare program. Run by
the JDC, it supplies for the el-
derly hot meals, activities, home
care.
In a sunlit one-story building,
a group of elderly ladies sang in
Yiddish, and children from a
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dessa, Ukraine — Rabbi
Shlomo Baksht is trYing to
jump start Jewish life in
this faded city — on lost
young soul at a time.
A 37-year-old from Jerusalem,
the red-bearded Rabbi Baksht
founded the Jewish Children's
Home last fall when he discov-
ered that an estimated 300, Jew-
ish children in south Ukraine
were either orphaned or aban-
doned. Economic hardship, com-
bined with drug and alcohol
abuse, drove scores of parents to
abandon youngsters, he says.
The rabbi, who
loves to hug his lit-
tle charges, says he
has rescued dozens
of kids from the
streets. Others are
from state institu-
tions where, he
says, they receive one meal a day
and are baptized by missionar-
ies. He now has 44 children, and
says several hundred more need
help.
One is Avram, 11, who lived in
a state orphanage after his par-
ents abandoned him. He now
gets food, love — and soon a bar
mitzvah. He already recites the
Shema. Yet when his prayerbook
falls on the floor accidentally, he
sometimes crosses himself in-
stinctively.
Rabbi Baksht, who has been
in Odessa for four years and is
affiliated with the Israel-based
Ohr Sameach Yeshiva, says that
"after I negotiate with the gov-
ernment for an orphanage li-
cense, I hope to get these children
to Israel in a few years."
The rabbi's Jewish Children's
Home was one stop on a recent
10-day mission to Ukraine and
Israel by the UJA-Federation of
New York. At nearly every stop
in Odessa, home to some 50,000
Jews, and throughout Ukraine,
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A JDC staffer reads a book about Shabbat to orphans in Odessa.