Last week, Eric Fingerhut, the CEO of Jewish Federations of North America spoke after a “fly-in” to Poland to witness the sea of immigrants fleeing the violence in Ukraine. In his comments he stated,
“Communities do not wait until there is a fire to build a fire department and the…
It is hard to feel anything but hopeless as the images from Ukraine come across our TVs, computers, and phones. It feels like they are replaying the horrors every hour and they get worse and worse as we hear more about communities literally being leveled, mass graves, and bombing of hospi…
We have all been watching in horror at the Russian invasion of Ukraine since it began just over a week ago. Each day, each hour brings new horrors to the Ukrainian people including the 200,000+ Ukrainian Jews. We can only imagine the terror of the children, the families, the survivors o…
For the last three to four weeks we have heard warnings from our leadership about an impending incursion of Russia into Ukraine.
Over the last week President Biden’s warnings became more and more definitive.
Just over 36 hours ago we witnessed what we all hoped would never happen: a fu…