Rabbi Yeshaya Cohen, the chief rabbi of Kazakhstan, as well as his brother Rabbi Elchonon Cohen, who directs Chabad of Almaty, joined Rabbi Mordechai Morozow in inaugurating the new mikvah in Shymkent. Chabad-Lubavitch of Shymkent
City on the Kazakh Steppe Inaugurates Its First-Ever Mikvah
History was made on Tuesday, July 9, when the Jewish community of Shymkent, Kazakhstan, gathered to inaugurate ‘Mikvah Mei Elazar,’ the city’s first-ever mikvah. The mikvah’s opening marks a coming of age for Jewish life on the vast Kazakh steppe.
