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Jewish orphans evacuated from Odessa to Berlin at Ukraine war’s start are headed home again

JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi Mendy Wolff is orchestrating the return of 120 children and staff from the Mishpacha Orphanage in Odessa, Ukraine, to their homeland, after a year of refuge in Berlin due to the ongoing war. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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ChabadGermanyOdessaJewish RefugeesBerlinUkrainian WarEconomic ChallengesHumanitarian EffortsJewish OrphanageRabbi Mendy Wolff

Places mentioned

Berlin, Germany
"Rabbi Mendy Wolff stands in a hallway in a Berlin hotel among children he brought from a Jewish orphanage in Odessa, Ukraine."
Odessa, Odeshchyna, Ukraine
"A year after Rabbi Mendy Wolff spirited 120 children and staff away from the Mishpacha Orphanage in this war-torn country to the safety of Berlin, he is preparing to bring many of them home."
Mykolaiv, Khersonshchyna, Ukraine
"Odessa is faring better than many other southern Ukrainian cities like Mykolaiv and Kherson to the east, which have suffered daily shelling."
Kherson, Khersonshchyna, Ukraine
"Odessa is faring better than many other southern Ukrainian cities like Mykolaiv and Kherson to the east, which have suffered daily shelling."
Przemysl, Subcarpathia, Poland
"Ukrainians queue at the railway station in Przemysl, Poland, to depart for Ukraine, amid a reversal in migration patterns as the Ukraine war ground on, Dec. 20, 2022."

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