Limmud FSU founder Chaim Chesler, right. Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi and Roman Kogan attending an event at the Lviv opera house on Nov. 6, 2016. (Photo: Boris Bukhman)
LVIV, Ukraine (JTA) — Nearly 1,000 people attended the largest Jewish gathering held in decades in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, which has numerous monuments honoring Holocaust-era alleged war criminals.
The mostly Jewish crowd of 900 people on Saturday night filled the Lviv Theater of Opera and Ballet for a concert and ceremony celebrating a decade of activity by the Ukraine branch of Limmud FSU – a network of organizations responsible for holding …read more
Source: JTA
