JDC’s Ukraine Response Ukraine’s vibrant Jewish community is one of the largest in the world, home to an estimated 200,000 Jews. The current situation with Russia (as of Feb. 23) has convinced some in this Jewish community to leave, others to prepare to fight, and placed still others, who are vulnerable and require assistance for daily necessities, in greater need. “The expanding economic toll of Ukraine’s crisis is more insidious than reported, increasing the suffering of the neediest every day,” Ariel Zwang, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s CEO wrote in a letter published Feb. 22 in the New York Times....