Moldova

Transnistria’s Jews find themselves caught in a Soviet time warp as Ukraine war rages next door

The breakaway republic within Moldova is incredibly impoverished.

Ukrainian Jews, scarred by a bloody history, find themselves refugees once again

Hundreds of Jews are among the Ukrainians fleeing to Moldova, the site of a historic pogrom that symbolizes early 20th-century Jewish flight from Eastern Europe.

The torched grave of a daughter of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Kremenchuk, Ukraine in 2015. (Oholei Tzadikim)

Ukraine grave of Rabbi Nachman’s daughter destroyed and desecrated with pig parts

Also this week, a grave at a Jewish cemetery in Greece and a monument for Holocaust victims in Moldova were vandalized.

The Jewish cemetery of Rascov, Transnistria. (Courtesy of Rabbi Pinchas Zaltsman)

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Renovators find a ritual burial facility last used in 1931 at a neglected Jewish cemetery near Moldova

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Rabbi in Moldova helps save a life and scores matzah for his community

The aftermath of vandalism at a Jewish cemetery in Chisinau, Moldova on Oct. 31, 2020. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Moldova)

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Headstones smashed at Jewish cemeteries in Moldova and Hungary

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Obninsk, Russia, home of the world’s first nuclear power plant, gets its first synagogue

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In Moldova, Jewish teens go to schools to dispel anti-Semitic stereotypes

The closed gate of the only active synagogue of Tiraspol, Transnistria. (Courtesy of Roman Yanushevsky/Channel 9)

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Transnistria is a tiny, poor state in Eastern Europe. The few Jews left there eye an escape.

Rabbi Shimshon Izakson, second from left, praying with congregants at the Wooden Synagogue in Chisinau, Moldova on Aug. 26, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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Moldova’s dwindling Jewish community reopens synagogue seized by Soviets

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