ON THE COVER
TOP: People from all over Metro Detroit gathered Downtown to show solidarity with Ukraine.
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CAMPAIGN FOR UKRAINE
In response to the crisis,
the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit, working
with the Jewish Federation of
North America and their inter-
national partners, JDC, JAFI and
World ORT, opened a Ukraine
Emergency Fund campaign to
provide rescue and relief for the
200,000 Jews in Ukraine.
The funds will be used to
support temporary housing for
those fleeing violence, care for
homebound older adults, food,
medication and supplies, security
for Jewish institutions and other
critical services.
For Federation, it means a lot
to help Ukrainian Jewry in the
face of the crisis.
“The Jewish Federation,
through its Annual Campaign,
has been taking care of our global
YEVGENIYA GAZMAN @YGAZM
TEMPLE ISRAEL put together a Help
from Afar Fund, which will go directly to
individuals and communities in Ukraine.
Donate at www.temple-israel.org/form/
help-from-afar-ukraine.html.
M
y sister and her
husband, Cherry
and Rabbi Ariel
Markovitch, are one of more
than 30 Chabad emissar-
ies in Kyiv and
more than 200
in Ukraine.
After three
days of contin-
uous attacks,
they successful-
ly escaped from
Kyiv with their
three children and crossed the
border to Romania. They are
currently living with my par-
ents, the Chabad emissaries in
Nice, France.
Since they landed in France
last week, they are working
around the clock helping
members of their community
to leave Ukraine. At the same
time, they are working non-
stop to get supplies and food
to those who are still stranded
and are under continuous cur-
few conditions with no access
to food. The situation changes
with every minute.
FAMILY TIES
I last visited Kyiv in 2019. My
family roots there run deep.
My great-grandfather
Nachum Pinson studied in
the famous Chabad Yeshiva
as a teenager in the town of
Lubavitch under the guidance
of the fifth and sixth Rebbes.
He raised a beautiful family in
the town of Charkov and made
a living as a businessman.
In 1939 he was arrested by
the KGB for the sin of giving
his kids a Jewish education
and living an observant Jewish
life. He was sent to the gulags
in Siberia where he perished
from famine and exhaustion at
the young age of 57. A cousin
sent me a newly discovered
KGB file about Nachum and
his three friends that were
arrested at the same time.
Let’s Talk
About Ukraine
Rabbi Yisrael
Pinson
Cherry and
Rabbi Ariel
Markovitch
and their
children
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