Odessa Inaugurates New Orphanage and Synagogue

The Jewish community of Odessa, Ukraine had a lot to celebrate when, under the protection of a police guard and a parade route closed to traffic, it marked the concurrent dedications of a new synagogue, Torah scroll and orphanage.

Celebrants, including locals, students from the city’s Ohr Avner Chabad day school and the Jewish University of Southern Ukraine, supporters from abroad, and residents of the new orphanage, packed the streets as the sounds of music and singing filled the air.

Housing the synagogue and orphanage, the new Chesed She’B’Chesed building was officially opened by Jewish community director Yuri Rodin and Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Avraham Wolff, the city’s chief rabbi.

4 Comments

  • shlomo as always with bad English

    orphanage??? it mean a lot Jewish orphans in Odessa? if so m.b better find Jewish family to adopt them?

  • mendoza

    shlomo it s ok i went to oheli torah 35 yr ago . i was born in this country and i cant spell either, as long as yr a guta yid , and say lechaim yr ok

  • Read this instead of the narishkeit!

    BS’’D
    Now THIS IS NEWS! DUS IS NEIAZ! Boruch Hashem, may this place and all Yiddishe places, along with the teachers and kinderlach should go Michayil L’chayil!

  • Yankee T

    Mazal tov rabbi wolff. Nice work, I remember you talking about this when I was there years ago…