The Jewish Agency for Israel is reaching out to Ukrainian and Russian Jews newly open to the idea of moving to Israel because of troubles in their home countries.
The economic crisis, in light of the military conflict against Russian-backed rebels, has diminished a growing donor class and returned the Jewish community to a reliance on Western aid.
A maverick rabbi from Ukraine is raising Western dollars for a Jewish refugee village that shares a name, among other qualities, with Tevye the Dairyman’s fictional village.