High Holidays 5769 / 2008 in the new Kishinev Synagogue
Mr. Leonid Valenyansky (Left) and Mr Samion Vaniberg (right)
recieve Honey cake (Lekach) From Rabbi Zalman Abelsky
Slice of Life
Major restoration campaign – at the Kishinev Synagogue
Of the 70 synagogues in Kishinev, only one survived communism. This shul is operated by Rabbi Zalman Abelsky Chief Rabbi of Kishinev and Moldova. The synagogue (known as “The Glaziers Synagogue”) has been active for over 100 years. Thousand of people gather here in the high holidays.
Chief Rabbi Abelsky Meets with Israel Gov’t Minister Lieberman
Rabbi Zalman Abelsky, Chief Rabbi of Kishinev and Moldova, met with Avigdor Lieberman, leader of Israel’s Homeland Israel Party, on July 14, 2008. The following are excerpts from an interview about the meeting between Mr. Lieberman and our correspondent
Q: Mr. Lieberman, what does your visit to Rabbi Zalman mean to you?
Tammuz 12 Celebration in the Chabad Lubavitch Synagogue, Kishinev
The holiday of liberation was celebrated with great joy in the Chabad Lubavitch Synagogue. It was the 12th of Tammuz, 5768―a date marking the day a brave man, the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, received documents authorizing his release from Stalin’s prisons in 1929.
Thanks to him, many Chasidim and others managed to keep Jewish traditions alive in the Soviet Union. This man conquered the Soviet system.
An unusual painting workshop in the synagogue
For the first time in its history, the Kishinev synagogue became the site of a painting workshop that attracted some of the most well-known painters from Moldova. For more than 3 days, the central hall of the synagogue was filled with easels and the smell of paint as Alexandr Alavatsky, Tatiana Frunze, Ilia Leo,and Lilia Nashcu painted scenes from Jewish life in Kishinev while members of the synagogue watched with interest.
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