Young and Old Alike Love Hanukkah
 For young people participation in Hanukkah events is the possibility to exert themselves. For people of golden age such participation is a real feeling of personal victory and pride for being a Jew. They witnessed a lot in their lives: both the time of national oblivion and the time of Jewry revival. December, 11 a festive event for ghetto and concentration camp survivors and Righteous Gentile supported by the AJJDC took place. Hesed–Rakhamim took up organization and holding of the holiday. The youth from “Madrichim School” of the Jewish Community Center “Emunah” directed by Irina Abramovich took active part in the event organization as well. They made a ceremony of candle lighting and told about Hanukkah traditions. Both professional musicians and members of Hesed–Rakhamim creative teams participated in concert dedicated to Hanukkah. The first Hanukkah candle was lit by Mikhail Treister who is the Chairman of the Belarusian Union of WWII Jewish Veterans and Ghetto Survivors Organization.
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Leonid Levin, the chairperson of the Union of Belarusian Jewish Organizations and Communities, and Yoni Leifer, the Head of the Resident Representative of the AJJDC in the Republic of Belarus, opened the event with their speech. Yoni Leifer stressed that one of the priorities of AJJDC work is taking care of those who survived the war and Holocaust. We are grateful to these people who managed to preserve the light of Hanukkah in their soul and to share it with future generations. The atmosphere of the event was warm and friendly. All the elderly people enjoyed the evening. Despite the age and health problems they did come that day to take part in the event prepared specially for them.  December, 17 annual festive event of the Welfare Jewish Fund Hesed–Rakhamim “Hanukkah–2009” took place. Neither frost, nor the age prevented our elderly people to gather to celebrate Hanukkah. And they were not disappointed. The concert program was very interesting and unusual. For the first time all the amateur teams from the Hesed–Rakhamim club took part in the concert. Totally there were 60 participants. Loud applause and excited feedbacks of the audience are the best proof of Hesed artists' professionalism. At the end of the concert all the guests could try doughnuts «sufganiyot» which are considered to be traditional food on Hanukkah.
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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.
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