It is the year 2000…There are different Jewish organizations functioning in Minsk. Seniors join Minsk Public Association of Jewish Culture named after Isaac Harik and Hesed-Rakhamim, youngsters connect to Beit Hillel. The activities of Israeli Cultural Center and Jewish Agency for Israel are in full swing. A LOCAL organization attracting individuals and families to explore Jewish traditions and culture through educational, cultural and recreational opportunities in an inclusive community setting does not exist. JCC Emunah has become such an organization.
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19.08.2010 It is so easy to make a child happy… Just send him or her to The Galaxy of Talents interethnic creative camp for a week and it will be the heart of your child’s summer adventure.
It is so hard to make a child happy…For it is quite difficult to organize such an event. It is even more difficult to make each of the seven days of the camp a wonderful discovery, a revelation, a festival of child’s soul.
Emunah Jewish Cultural Society, that organized “Different in Nationalities. United in Creativity” project, with the generous support of the U.S. Embassy in Belarus Small Grants Program, discovered the perfect formula for a happy and meaningful summer experience for all campers.
The project’s goals – promoting tolerance and respect to an individual and most of all, uniting youth from different ethnic groups through creativity – were achieved successfully.More...
05.08.2010 On October, 31 Minsk Jewish Campus will host Chavruta 2010 – Day of Jewish Knowledge – the most popular and inspiring event in the field of Jewish informal education.More...
27.07.2010 143 people were massacred in Bysritsa village, 158 in Mikhalishki village(Grodno region), 2950 in Kopyl town, more than 3500 in Nesvizh town (Minsk region)… New memorials at the places of Jewish massacre during WWII were open on July, 25 and 26.More...
22.07.2010 Summer family camps reflect the unique, bright and unusual spirit of the Jewish community in Belarus. It is the camp where a Jew plunges into the Jewish life, it is the camp that helps the two most important things in the life of each Jew – the family and the feeling of unity with the chosen people – harmonically interweave.More...
20.07.2010 Everybody has been looking for a new season of family camp held every year by the JCC “Emunah” at Pod’elniki recreation resort. Since March parents and their children have been coming to the organization to sign up for the camp; madrichim directed by rabbanit Irina Abramovich have been working on a program; even the sanatorium has been rebuilt! Untill finally the long-expected moment has come! Soon the most exciting week will start: the participants will settle in a camp building, meet new friends, hold a ceremony of Shabbat welcoming.More...
19.07.2010 In July a delegation of Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta (USA) arrived in Minsk with an official mission. The guests had 5 days to get acquainted with the life of Jewish communities in Belarus. They visited both secular and religious organizations, spent an unforgettable evening at a summer family camp that had been supported by their Federation for several years already. Much of the time the mission spent at the Minsk Jewish campus.More...
16.07.2010 “Military order, oath, duty… Logic is simple: performing a feat, a soldier gets a decoration; accomplishing something really special and heroic, a soldier may be even awarded with a title of Hero of the USSR. But who can reproach a person for not saving somebody because it’s dangerous for his or her life and the life of relatives? You are the ones who risked your lives saving people and not expecting any awards and money for your deed. You saved them from death, maintaining you dignity, your human dignity. You are the “Righteous Gentiles”, I would better say you are “Heroes of the World”!” – this short speech by Ilya Pevzner, the soloist of the Belarusian State Theatre of Opera and Ballet, touched the hearts of all the attendees who came to meet Righteous Gentiles delegation returning from their trip to Israel.More...
12.07.2010 The Jewish Family Outreach Service has organized a camp for 20 families bringing up children with special needs (children with psychophysical, mental problems, with epilepsy, visual impairment and etc.) at the “Pod’elniki” recreation resort.More...
12.07.2010 Jewish tradition is full of questions and numerous answers to them. Sometimes there are several answers to one and the same question, sometimes there are none. Still there’s one question that has a definite and unambiguous answer… Here it is: Guess what every Jewish family in Belarus has been waiting for during the whole year?.. The answer is simple: they’ve been waiting for a new family camp season organized by the Joint and the Jewish Student Center “Hillel”.More...
05.07.2010 “On the Way to Jewish Wisdom” seminar supported by JDC has recently been held in Gomel. “Ahdut” Gomel Jewish community, “Hesed-Batya” Jewish Welfare Center, Jewish Family Outreach Service took an active part in organizing the event. Special guests came to the seminar, among them were: “Kesher” Jewish Women Organization, members of the neighboring Jewish communities from Rechitsa and Mogilev.More...
02.07.2010 A festive ceremony dedicated to the 10th jubilee of Mazl Tov program for kids from 4 to 7 took place in Bobruisk Jewish community campus in June. The beautifully decorated hall could hardly seat all the visitors; there were program freshers and graduators, former and current teachers, children who attend early development school now together with their parents and grandparents, and other guests.More...
01.07.2010 Lida Jewish community invited its most active participants to spend an unforgettable fortnight at a Jewish day camp. Even though all the children were of different age (from 6 to 16 years old), they got along with each other and became so close, that when everybody was thinking of a suitable name for the camp, they offered to call it “Mishpoha” meaning family.More...
Alevtina Babyna became Hesed client in 1998 when the recrudescence of polyarthritis in lower limbs put her on crutches. The pain was insufferable, so was the feeling of helplessness and irrelevance against her long previous life full of physical endurance.
At 73, he still is what his father had been all his life: dedicated communist and convinced internationalist. Named after Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx’s pal and accomplice in their abortive attempts to overthrow the reign of misappropriated surplus value, he still mourns the USSR and blames those who emigrate for a better living in Israel, in the USA or, even worse, in Germany.
Tanya suffers from phenylketonuria also known as Filling's disease. It affects the brain, causing convulsions, hyperactivity, self–traumatic behavior and mental disorders.
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