(JTA) – The city of Dnepropetrovsk in eastern Ukraine named a street after Menachem Mendel Schneerson, a prominent Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi who fled the city after Communist agents arrested his father there in the 1930s.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson Street was unveiled in Dnepropetrovsk Sunday by its chief rabbi, Shmuel Kaminezki, who is one of the Chabad movement’s most senior envoys to Ukraine. The change came amid a larger renaming policy implemented nationally, that had many street signs carrying the names of Soviet-era figures replaced with Ukrainian national heroes.
“This is a very important event for the city and for the country in general,” …read more
Source: JTA
