U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, met with the Chief Rabbi and Shliach of Kyiv, Rabbi Yonatan Markovitch, this week.
“Heartened to hear from Chief Rabbi Markovitch that Ukraine’s Jewish community continues to enjoy full freedom to practice as they please, and I admire the community’s commitment to caring for their neighbors in need,” she wrote after the visit.
Rabbi Markovitch invited the ambassador to the community center. Despite the war and the alarms in Kyiv, the ambassador arrived with a large delegation to see the Jewish community first hand.
With the support of JRNU, the Jewish Community Center and Chabad House work around the clock every day preparing hot food for hundreds of people, distributing food and medicine to more than 3,000 families a month, and providing physical and spiritual support to the Jewish refugees who arrived in Kyiv from various places in Ukraine.
