BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

17/03/2006

Belarus Reform get first megillah

The Reform community in Bobruisk, Belarus celebrated Purim this week with its first Scroll of Esther.

The megillah, believed to be the first donated to a Reform congregation in Belarus, was sent by the Hendon Reform Synagogue in London and is for the use of the entire Belarus Progressive movement. Hendon is twinned with the Bobruisk congregation through Exodus 2000, which assists Progressive communities in the former Soviet Union.

The British congregation plans to bring young people still suffering from the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to London next year.

Source:

http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=1846

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