JRoots inspires the Jewish community to explore their heritage, taking over 10,000 to Poland. Currently also supporting Ukrainian refugees in Poland 🇺🇦

Poland
Joined March 2022
JRoots has taken Jewish groups to Poland for over 10 years, to learn about their heritage and the Holocaust. When the Ukrainian refugee crisis started we felt we had a moral duty to help. 👇 Watch our founder Tzvi Sperber explain why👇
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We have just delivered a generator to the Jewish Community of Kamenske (Dneprodzerzhinsk) 🇺🇦. Rav Levi Stambler, asked for help to support their community of over 2.5k Jews. It will power a kindergarten, school, soup kitchen, medical centre and 30 families scared to return home.
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Medical supplies just arrived in Kiev!
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Although we have been quiet of the last week we have continued to support civilians in Ukraine and refugees in Poland. 📸 Some of the vans we have sent to destroyed cities still at war.
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During this morning’s Yom HaShoah program @talljewishradio hosted Rabbi Naftali Schiff, Executive Director of @JrootsJ, as well as the creator of a host of vital Jewish organizations, to get his perspective on this powerful day. nachumsegal.com/yom-hashoah-…
“What the Holocaust survivors teach us is that you can go through the darkest of nights and still survive, your faith still there, and your hopes still intact.” ~ Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l Watch the video, in partnership with @jrootsj - mizrachi.tv/the-message-of-t… @rabbisacks
📢Event Alert📢 We are really excited to announce we will be running some in-person educational opportunities to commemorate Yom Hashoah (Israeli Holocaust Memorial Day) this week. They will be happening in Israel on Wednesday, Thursday & Friday - more details below 👇👇
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All those who are hungry let them come and eat!" - Ha Lachma Anya, the Passover Seder. We have managed to send food packages to Levov and helped organised Passover Seders in both Ukraine and Poland!
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One of the defibrillators we are sending into Ukraine to help those in need. Each one of these costs about $2.5k!
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A few days ago we delivered 10,000 toys from @SpinMaster for Ukrainian refugees in Krakow and Warsaw. We went to orphanages, train stations, hotels + to help brighten a child's day despite the darkness. Watch children sing the Ukrainian anthem and pick their toys. 👇👇
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Over next week we will be delivering toys from @spinmastergames to Ukrainian children! We hope it will help cheer them up! Thank you @SpinMaster !
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It's incredible to believe that we have been successful in getting medicine into Ukrainian cities that have been under constant fire for the last four weeks. We honestly can't thank our drivers enough - they put their lives at risk on a daily basis.
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The cities included: Dnipro, Pavlohrad, Kamianske and Zaporizhzhia.
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A “gun attack”? Guns don’t attack. People do. And when those people use guns deliberately to murder innocent civilians sitting in restaurants, we call those people “terrorists”. @BBCWorld
Several wounded in gun attack in Tel Aviv, Israel bbc.in/35SAGrQ
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Seminary Migdal Oz brought Kosher for Passover food with them on their trip to Poland with us. This will help Jewish Ukrainian refugees celebrate Passover despite the conflict and being forced away from their homes.
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There have been a lot of Yeshivas (Jewish learning schools) visiting Poland with us. Here are students at @KBY_Yeshiva and @AishGesher visiting the site of the former rabbinical school: Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva. It's now a hotel and houses many Ukrainian refugees.
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Shabbat shalom from some of our amazing volunteers! They are helping out in a hostel, just outside Krakow, which has been given over to refugee families!
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