The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews pledges $650,000 in emergency funding for Jews in the battle zones of eastern Ukraine.
The emergency funding will provide Jews from cities such as Donetsk and Mariupol, who are caught in the crossfire between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists, with medicine, food, housing and security, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, IFJC founder and president, says in a statement announcing the extra funds.
“We will do everything in our power and means so no Jew will be left homeless or starved,” he writes. The sum will ensure thousands of food and medicine packages, as well as three months of operating soup kitchens and providing security for Jewish synagogues and institutions in Donetsk, Lugansk and Mariupol.
— JTA
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