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Volunteer
The Minsk Jewish Campus attracted two volunteers from abroad in 2003. Working alongside Family Club coordinators, Mazal Tov educators and Hillel students, among others, they created exciting programs for the community's benefit.
Tara Becker, 21, London
“As a young British Jew, I can say that my six months spent in Minsk were a
wonderful time in my life. What I found to be most exciting about the rebuilding
of this community was the gradual impact of the activities and on the intimacy
of individual Jews and the ownership of more and more Jewish traditions and
rituals within people's own houses”.
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Koby Oppenheim, 25, New York City
JDC Jewish Service Corps Volunteer
“Working with children and parents in the community's nursery program has
been an especially rewarding experience. The families have been warm and
welcoming and no one stops you from introducing out new ideas and approaches.
Opportunities here abound — all you need to do is harness your
imagination”.
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Read Volunteer's Survival Guide by Koby
Oppenheim.
Printable version
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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.
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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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