Monday, August 24, 2015

Named for Fiddler on Roof’s Anatevka, new village to house Ukraine Jewish refugees

Fleeing conflict, 100 residents set to move in next month; Kiev rabbi raises $6 million for first phase


By JTA

A prominent Ukrainian rabbi and Israel’s ambassador to Kiev attended the groundbreaking ceremony for a village for Jewish refugees from the conflict raging in eastern Ukraine.

At the ceremony earlier this month near the village of Gnativka, which is located 15 miles from the country’s capital, Israeli Amb. Eliav Belotserkovsky watched as cement trucks poured the foundations for the village, where 100 new residents are expected to settle next month, the village’s initiator, Rabbi Moshe Azman, said Friday.

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