The foundation was laid for a new Jewish community center in Kiev as part of the 15th anniversary celebration of a Ukrainian Jewish group. The celebration of the Orach Chaim Foundation is seen as a tribute to the work of Yakov Dov Bleich, chief rabbi of Kiev and Ukraine, who has been instrumental in Jewish revival in post-Soviet Ukraine.
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