Before being called to the Torah for his bar mitzvah aliyah at the Choral Synagogue.in Kharkov, Ukraine, Yisroel Moskovitz helps resident bless the lulav and etrog. Photo courtesy Chabad of Kharkov
Joyous Bar Mitzvah Celebrated in Sukkah in Kharkov, Ukraine
Perhaps nowhere in Ukraine was Sukkot more widely celebrated this year than in Kharkov, the country’s second-largest city. There, in the eastern part of the country, close to the border with Russia, that Yisroel Moskovitz became a bar mitzvah during Chol Hamoed, the intermediate days of Sukkot.
