Rav Yonatan Markovich, a Rav in Kyiv, said on Sunday that he and other Chabad shluchim in Ukraine are remaining in the country despite warnings of an imminent Russian invasion. Rav Markovitch told Walla News that the community is storing food and mattresses in the shul in order to prepare for the possibility of Jews gathering together there prior to an evacuation. Markovitch said that apart from worries about a possible evacuation, he’s concerned about a rise in anti-Semitism spurred by the situation, saying that “for the nationalists, the Jews are always ultimately to blame.” That fear is shared by...
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