Mazel Tov! A new war was born. Leaders, who have been in office for very long time, so it appears, have success going to their heads (or as they say in Hebrew: The urine has gone up to their heads).
And like almost everywhere else, there is also the Jewish point of view. And I’m okay to write about it, because I’m Jewish.
To begin with, they have (still have?) a Jewish president. It’s not like he attends a synagogue every Sabbath, but still it’s an interesting and somewhat exceptional issue. And it can be used by someone sometimes – as history tells us.
Another famous issue is the religious Jewish folklore that has to do with the Ukrainian city of Uman. A specific Jewish religious group (some call it a cult) has sanctified the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslev in Uman, and conducts a big yearly festival there around the new Jewish year (“Rosh Ha-Shana”). So far the custom even defeated Covid – Let’s see if it will overcome Putin.
But the most intriguing issue is the help given by the State of Israel to Jews worldwide. And now Israel is calling Ukrainian Jews to come to Israel. However, if and when they do come to Israel, they will find that certain things were much easier for them back in the Ukraine, where the authorities did not consider the level of their “Jewishness” as a legal factor. For example, they will see that some of them cannot get married in Israel at all, because they don’t have the appropriate origins of their mother or grandmother.
God bless the Ukraine.