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 Tamara Feiman belongs to the generation for which growing up in the Jewish environment and living Jewish values is a natural way of life.
Her parents managed to keep their Jewish identity despite growing up in the denationalized environment of the Soviet Union.
Since she was a child Tamara has been actively involved with emerging Jewish organizations. She attended the first Jewish kindergarten in Belarus and then continued her Jewish journey in Chabad religious school «Lauder Shneur College». She has been attending the Young Leadership School for two years and has worked in day camps and family camps as both an assistant and madricha. She has also participated in seminars and Shabbatons, visited the Atlanta, Georgia JCC Camp Barney Medintz, and worked as a madricha in Camp Szarvash. Her warmth and care are well-known to the special needs children from Ivenets orphanage who she visited as part of Helping Hand program.
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 The life of Maya Lomakina is that of hard work and privation. Her story, however, is that of optimism and hope.
Having cared first for her younger sister when she was a young girl herself and then for her own severely ill husband for most of her life, at 65, with a “bunch” of chronic diseases like acute myocardial infarction, high blood pressure, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, and liver problems, Maya has nobody to take care of her. Her mother and sister made aliyah a long time ago, and her only daughter lives with her family 20 km away from Pinsk and can not visit Maya very often.
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 Volunteers are the heart and soul of any Jewish community. This is also true about Minsk Jewish Campus. It is hard to give an exact number of MJC volunteers, but some 800 people of different ages donating their time and effort to the community can proudly call themselves volunteers of MJC.
There are volunteers dedicated to the Jewish History and Culture Museum of Belarus. One of them is Mikhail Izrailsky (Belen’ky). Having come to the “Mogilev Ghetto” exhibition opening in 2002 he fell in love with the museum and the work done there, and his heart is still in it.
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 The story of Elena Vakulchik resembles the story of many women who faced betrayal of the person trusted and hoped to build a strong family with. In 2003 Elena gave birth to twin boys. As they were born prematurely, the boys were very weak and doctors fought for their lives. The situation got even worse, when one of the kids, Misha, turned out to have congenital malformation: sensor neural deafness and speech underdevelopment. While Elena and Misha were in hospital, the father of the children filed for divorce and paternity suit. Although court decision was positive for Elena, it didn’t help the situation: the father abandoned the family and does not participate in the life of his children.
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 One who has ever met Krupenkovy family, will never forget this bright, unusual couple. These particular people are associated with the classic example of the Jewish family: educated, talented and active.
Krupenkovy family has been attending JCC “Emunah” for 10 years already since its first days. They were the first members of Keshet family club and were one of the most active participants. Their son Misha became JCC client as a lovely baby with fluffy hair, now he is a serious young man, a third-year student of physical faculty and an active participant of Hillel and JCC Youth Leadership School.
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