What is believed to be a record-breaking number of Jewish pilgrims celebrated Rosh Hashanah in the Ukrainian city of Uman. About 20,000 Chasidic Jews from around the world made the pilgrimage to Uman in central Ukraine, the burial place of Rabbi Nachman, founder of the Bratslav Chasidic movement. Some 9,000 to 12,000 Bratslavers have come to Uman each year since the annual pilgrimage to Ukraine was revived in 1988, after the Soviet Union loosened restrictions on religious practice.
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