Top Ukrainian rabbi: I don’t know if it’s safer to stay put or take to the roads

28 February 2022, 7:31 pm

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Rabbi Moshe Azman speaks to Israel's Channel 12 outside a Kyiv area Jewish community center, on February 28, 2022. (Screenshot)

Rabbi Moshe Azman, a leading Ukrainian rabbi, tells a Channel 12 news reporter in the Kyiv area that he doesn’t know how to advise the many Jews who are asking him whether they should try to leave the area, and who tell him they will do whatever he tells them to do.

“I feel like their lives are in my hands,” he says, speaking outside a Jewish community center. “I tell people, you decide… I don’t want to decide for you because I don’t know.”

“Lives are in danger if they stay, and lives are in danger if they leave,” he says. “I don’t what is more dangerous — to take to the roads or to stay put.”