Crisis Center in Israel a Lifeline for Jews of Ukraine

In the Israeli village of Kfar Chabad, in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro and in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., dozens of Russian-speaking volunteers coordinated by the Chabad-Lubavitch-affiliated Federation of Jewish Communities (FJC) sit in high-tech crisis-management centers, staffing emergency hotlines and connecting the Jews of Ukraine with Chabad’s boots on the ground.

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54 Busloads of Desperate Ukrainian Jews Evacuated in a Single Day

Sitting in the ad hoc crisis center in Kfar Chabad, “Chaim” has been on the phone with Jews in war-torn Ukraine for nearly 14 hours. In call after call, he has been reiterating the same point: “Get out while you can. We will help you leave Ukraine and bring you to Israel if that’s what you want, but you must leave now!”