Most people would prefer to go to sunny, safe Florida for midwinter break, and you couldn’t pay them to go to Belarus for ten days! But I never like doing what most people do, anyway,Another Kind of Revolution,Most people would prefer to go to sunny, safe Florida for midwinter break, and you couldn’t pay them to go to Belarus for ten days! But I never like doing what most people do, anyway
O f course I wanted to go to Belarus for midwinter vacation. Who wouldn’t?
Actually I suppose most people wouldn’t. Most people would prefer to go to sunny safe Florida for midwinter break and you couldn’t pay them to go to Belarus for ten days! But I never like doing what most people do anyway.
My sister had gone to the Former Soviet Union (FSU) for midwinter vacation and then again for a summer eight years before me and my mother is from England so I grew up with the knowledge that the world doesn’t start and end with the five proverbial Jewish boroughs (Flatbush Boro Park Williamsburg Lawrence and Lakewood of course). So every year when the chesed heads in school would get up around November-time and announce a special kiruv trip for 11th and 12th graders to visit a Belarusian school for orphans my ears would perk up and I would anxiously await my junior and senior years.
Before the Holocaust the chesed girls would explain Belarus (formerly called White Russia) had over 1000 000 Jews. However the Jewish community in the region has suffered considerably in the last century — over 80% physical annihilation as well as spiritual decline under Communist rule.
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