Charitable donation
[youtube]EGbjd96xZh4[/youtube] Following the results of the charity concert of the Musical Retro Collective “HesedbenD”, which took place on March 31 in the premises of the Khmelnytsky Regional Academic Music and Drama Theater named after M. Starytsky, 3,000 UAH of charity was collected. On April 5, a ceremonial presentation of charitable funds to Lyubov Opanasyuk, the mistress of a family of displaced persons from the ATO zone, took place at the “Thia” Community Center. We suggest watching a short video.
Heroism and tragedy remembered
Today the whole world remembers the beginning of the brave and tragic events that began in 1943 in neighboring Poland. We are talking about the beginning of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto - an attempt by Jews sentenced to death to resist the fascist punishers. Unfortunately, even the long-term confrontation ended in the defeat of the Jewish minority. But in the memory of generations it remained as a model of heroism and struggle.
Passover
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Jews around the world celebrate Passover
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The First Seder
[huge_it_slider id=”62″] Hag Pesach Sameach! The celebration of one of the most important holidays of the Jewish calendar – Pesach – began at the Community Center “Thia”. According to tradition, the first seder began on the evening of April 10. The Community Center and all its employees worked in an intensive mode, as it was necessary to receive a large number of clients of the Khmelnytskyi Charitable Foundation “Hesed Besht” and community members. Three rooms […]
With care for women
[huge_it_slider id=”61″] Spring has always been associated with the beautiful half of humanity and female beauty for the majority of the population of our planet. That is why this spring, activists of the World Women's Jewish Organization "Project Kesher" in Khmelnytskyi, together with the Hesed Besht Charity Foundation and volunteer doctors, took care to ensure that female beauty remained untouched and that springtime was not overshadowed by health problems. To […]
The Ark project took place
[huge_it_slider id=”58″] Khmelnytskyi Charitable Foundation “Hesed Besht” conducts cultural, mass and educational work in the field of studying one of the most terrible tragedies of the 20th century, which was widely known as the “Holocaust”. An effective method of work is to conduct educational seminars for youth. The “Ark” project belongs to such initiatives, as it is conducted for youth of different ages and nationalities. 23 and 24 […]
Visiting Oleksandr Shymansky
[huge_it_slider id=”55″] On International Theater Day, we invited a person to the Thiya Community Center who once made a “revolution” in local theater art, filling it with innovative ideas. Even now, the name of Oleksandr Petrovych Shymansky, Honored Choreographer of Ukraine, is known and respected in the city. Our clients were able not only to warmly welcome the artist, but also to pleasantly surprise him with knowledge […]
Paper flowers have bloomed!
Spring is the time of the first fragile flowers that fill the gray post-winter landscape with color. However, in the Community Center "Thia" of the Khmelnytskyi Charitable Foundation "Hesed Besht" the flowers appeared much earlier and will delight people much longer. They are made of colorful paper by the caring hands of our women and are exhibited for the general public at the exhibition.
Happy Purim Sameach!
[huge_it_slider id=”52″] On March 12, the Jewish community of the Khmelnytskyi region gathered together in a restaurant to celebrate the most joyful holiday of the Jewish calendar – Purim! In addition to the residents of Khmelnytskyi, the organizers of the holiday from the Hesed Besht Jewish Community Foundation gathered representatives from Derazhnya, Gorodok and Letychiv and prepared an incredibly fun and bright program. What happened at the holiday itself during the Purimshpil was not expected by anyone…
On the eve of Purim
[huge_it_slider id=”51″] Purim is the most joyful Jewish holiday. The joy of getting rid of the terrible lot that evil forces prepared for the Jews, in the person of Haman, has passed through the centuries and is still felt in the spring. The traditions of this day have no analogues in other cultures, therefore they are interesting to representatives of other nationalities. Today, representatives of various public organizations gathered at the Hesed Besht Charitable Foundation, which […]
Bukovina Purim
On March 5, a team of children and teenagers from our region headed south to the city of Chernivtsi to join in the fun before the Purim holiday. They were invited by wonderful people from the Jewish religious community of Bukovina, with whom good neighborly relations were established, thanks to a letter from the Head of the community board, Chief Rabbi of Chernivtsi region M. Glitsnshtein to the director of the Hesed Besht Jewish Community Foundation, Ihor Ratushny.
Congratulations to women on spring
On the eve of International Women’s Day, an unconventional festive event was held at the Thiya Community Center. Women volunteers of the Foundation and “Community”, clients and friends (or, more precisely, girlfriends) of our organization were invited to participate in it. The unconventional event was precisely in the way it congratulated women on the holiday of spring, beauty and tenderness. There were no gifts given to the participants. That is, there were no […]
Shevchenkiana-2017
Khmelnytskyi Charitable Foundation “Hesed Besht” annually joins the celebration of Shevchenko Days. Poems and poems known from childhood are close to many of our people. And the rebellious mood of the fighter for justice and his people is close in meaning to the life position of the entire long-suffering Jewish people. Shevchenko readings took place in advance, since the calendar days fall on the preparation for the holiday of Purim.
International cooperation. JCC Global
Today we would like to share with the readers of our website the achievements that have become possible in recent years thanks to cooperation with the organization "JCC Global". Everyone will agree that we live in a small city, even by Ukrainian standards. Our community members are territorially settled within a radius of one hundred kilometers around Khmelnytskyi. We maintain contact with the community through a network of Community Centers [...]
