How an annual religious pilgrimage created a year-round Jewish community in Uman, Ukraine Relying on tourism for their livelihood, around 70 families have settled in this sleepy Ukrainian city where their rabbis says they are “not wanted.”
Rabbi’s death from flu in Ukraine has community in panic Approximately 300 vaccines are needed, a rabbi said, to protect the 80 Jewish families living in Uman.
In the Ukrainian city of Uman, businesses and mobsters follow the Jewish pilgrims Cashing in on the growing popularity of the Rosh Hashanah visit to Ukraine, dozens of entrepreneurs have set up shop here — under the watchful eye of the all-powerful Ukrainian mafia.