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Nov 25, 2015

Sparking a Future for an Orphan in Uzbekistan

Angelina had lived through more by age 8 than most people will experience during their entire lives. Growing up in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, she lost both of her parents, then lost her 23-year-old brother shortly afterward in a construction accident.

 

Orphaned and alone, the young girl moved…

Nov 9, 2015

Exodus to a New Life

When he left the Soviet Union with his family at age 7, Michael owned nothing but the shirt he was wearing—complete with grease stain on the front pocket.

 

He had safely tucked the butter served on his flight to Israel there because he couldn’t imagine a life different than the one h…

Nov 8, 2015

Helping French Jews Build New Lives in Israel

Though he’s been in Israel for less than a year and is far from his family, Thibault already feels more at home there than he ever did in his native France.

 

In Paris, he felt like an outcast. Though his grandparents are Holocaust survivors, Thibault grew up in an assimilated household…

Oct 22, 2015

One Constant Thing in Times of Crisis

“Completely alone.”

 

That’s how Anna Kushnir has felt since fighting broke out in her town of Slavyansk in eastern Ukraine last year. Amid constant gunfire and mortars, her beloved husband of over 50 years died unexpectedly. Every house in her town has been destroyed, replaced with…

Sep 18, 2015

Refuge for a War Hero in Need

While his family was fleeing the Nazis during World War II, Gregory Margolin, only 16 years old, was fighting them in the Soviet Red Army, first as a sniper, then as a commander. Now, at 86 and beginning to struggle with Alzheimer’s, he still proudly wears his uniform bedecked with medals…