Inside Rabbi Moshe Fhima’s operation to save Ukraine’s Jews
The woman’s hesitancy was evident even to me, listening in by phone from 4,500 miles away.
“Which language do you speak?” the woman begins.
“Any language,” responds Rabbi Moshe Fhima, who, from his vantage point in Pinsk, Belarus, has taken a lead role in evacuating Jews from war-torn Ukraine. “Russian, Hebrew, Yiddish, English, Ukrainian,” he rattles off. “But best in Hebrew.”
The US has FEMA to handle disasters. The Jews in today’s Ukraine have Rabbi Fhima. British-born, Israeli-educated, and living right next door to the world’s largest refugee crisis since World War II, he has for 20 years been leading Yad Yisrael, the Karlin-Stolin organization for reviving Jewish life in Belarus and Ukraine.
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