What holidays are for...
 Autumnal festivities in the MJC will end next Sunday with the celebration of Simchat Torah. They were quite special this year lit by warm sunny days and starry nights. When it was getting rainy and windy the sun was never far away sending at least a couple of rays to enliven hopes for a better life.
Some three hundred people, Jewish community and guests, were singing, dancing, treating each other with traditional food and candies all over the Campus on October 8. It might be just an impression, but the presence of youth, teens and toddlers, was this day particularly tangible. It's true that Rosh–a–Shana, Yom Kippur and Sukkot are quite demanding, for introspective catharsis makes for an important part in the Jewish tradition, and if err is human, it's even more juvenile. Anyway, it seemed like a good sign, that multitude of smiling young faces, obviously enjoying in advance everything that a New Year brings them.
The entire small Jewish community, some 15 persons old and young, from Soligorsk–Liuban area came to Minsk invited by the JFOS. They were absolutely delighted with what they saw on the Campus and even more so with the short ride through the remnants of old Jewish Minsk. Memories of that long day will live with every participant, Jew or gentile, as a tie that binds people to what they have the most precious to share: faith, hope and love. That is what holidays are for, isn't that?
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Alevtina Babyna became Hesed client in 1998 when the recrudescence of polyarthritis in lower limbs put her on crutches. The pain was insufferable, so was the feeling of helplessness and irrelevance against her long previous life full of physical endurance.
At 73, he still is what his father had been all his life: dedicated communist and convinced internationalist. Named after Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx’s pal and accomplice in their abortive attempts to overthrow the reign of misappropriated surplus value, he still mourns the USSR and blames those who emigrate for a better living in Israel, in the USA or, even worse, in Germany.
Tanya suffers from phenylketonuria also known as Filling's disease. It affects the brain, causing convulsions, hyperactivity, self–traumatic behavior and mental disorders.
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