Jewish Center in Transdniestria

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The boomerang of kindness is flying through our community! 💚 It seems like the "Boomerang of Kindness" is picking up speed and getting more and more people involved in good deeds. One shares their harvest, another brings it to the community, a third helps process it—and the kindness returns to us in the form of new encounters, smiles, and care. Some bring surpluses from their gardens and vegetable plots to share with those who don't have the opportunity to grow their own vegetables and fruits. And someone brings their harvest to the community—and that's when our volunteers step in. 🍎🌿 This time there were plenty of apples—but as we know, you can never have too many apples! 😄 They were peeled, sliced, and dried to preserve the flavor and nutritional value of the summer harvest. We also dried tomatoes and canned them using a new recipe. 🍅 And all this happened in a big, friendly group, where the work is much more fun! You can work together, joke, drink tea, talk, and just see each other. And today, this is especially important for our clients: after the Day Center closed, many are missing the usual social interactions, meetings, and the opportunity to spend time with friends. That's why our preparations aren't just about food. They're also about communication, support, participation, and the feeling of being needed. ❤️ We're looking forward to the fruits of your gardens—and your hands, your time, your energy! It doesn't matter how much you can bring or how much time you're willing to give. What matters is the desire to be part of a common good cause. 🍎 If you've got a harvest, share it! 🤲 If you have free time, come help! 😊 If you're eager to socialize, you're welcome here! Come! Together, we transform harvests into care, time into good deeds, and ordinary meetings into genuine support. May the "Boomerang of Kindness" fly far and involve more and more people! 💚 See also the link https://vox.jct.md/bumerang-dobra-letit-po-nashey-obshchine Volunteer Center RVC #JDC #RVC

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📚✨ Literary Salon — a meeting with poetry, stories, humor, and creativity! 🎭 Touching stories by Tatyana Pavlovna, her poems, and songs based on the author's poems. 📝 Ironic and modern poetry by Anna Shtro — about AI, Alice, children, new technologies, and our everyday lives. 😊 Lots of smiles, interesting stories, and warm communication! Thank you to our guests for a wonderful literary meeting and the opportunity to once again immerse ourselves in the world of creativity! ❤️📖✨ 👉For more information, see https://vox.jct.md/literaturnaya-gostinaya-vsrecha-s-poeziey-yumorom-i-zhiznennimi-istoriyami Volunteer Center RVC #RVC

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🤝 Connecting generations begins with good deeds! Hesed held the first meetings of the "Connecting Generations: Volunteering, Caring, Traditions" project—two meetings each for teenagers and older generations. Participants learned about the work of our volunteer center, learned about the projects and volunteers, and then, together with a psychologist, explored what it means to be a true volunteer: how to help, listen, support, respect personal boundaries, and be there for others. ❤️ It's especially gratifying that many participants are already doing good deeds—they just hadn't called themselves volunteers before! 🌱 "Volunteer School" is ongoing and welcomes new participants! If you want to help, learn, connect, and make the community stronger—join us! 📞Call us—we're waiting for you! 775 21135 Anna Let's create connections between generations not only with words, but also with our actions! 💙🤝🌟 👉For more information, see https://vox.jct.md/svyaz-pokoleniy-nachinaetsya-s-pervogo-shaga Volunteer Center RVC #rvc

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🕯️ Celebrating Shabbat together! We gathered at the Hesed table once again to celebrate Shabbat. We lit candles, recited blessings, shared challah, chatted, sang, and even danced. ✨ A special treat was homemade dogwood and cherry compote, donated by the Britov family from Grigoriopol. ❤️ Thank you for such a delicious and heartfelt gift! It was a truly warm evening—with traditions, smiles, and the joy of being together. Shabbat Shalom! 🕯️

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🧸✨ Our community hosted a warm and cozy workshop where older women learned how to create a charming teddy bear from an ordinary towel—one of the most original ways to gift wrap. 🎁 With great care, the participants rolled the towels step by step, turning them into the head, ears, arms, and legs of the future bear. And very soon, each of them was holding a cute little teddy bear, made with their own hands. 🧸💛 The creative process was so captivating that everyone wondered who to give such an unusual gift to. After all, a gift made with love always brings special joy. 🥰 Thank you to all the participants for the wonderful atmosphere, smiles, and inspiration! Until next time! 🌸 For more information, please visit https://vox.jct.md/podarok-svoimi-rukami Volunteer Center RVC #rvc

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🎨Bright colors, creativity, and a wonderful time together! 🌟We held an educational shopper painting workshop that brought together children, teenagers, and parents. ❣️ Under the guidance of the master, participants transferred their chosen designs onto fabric step by step, learned how to carefully work with paints, combine colors, and create beautiful painted shoppers. ❤️It was so wonderful to see children, teenagers, and adults creating together, communicating, helping each other, and enjoying their finished work. Each participant went home with a bright shopper, painted by their own hands, a good mood, and pleasant memories. 🚩 Thank you to all the participants for the warm atmosphere, smiles, and desire to create together! 👉 If you have children or grandchildren with Jewish roots, they are welcome to join our classes, workshops, holidays, and other interesting events to meet, socialize, and spend time in a friendly atmosphere. 👉For more information and consultation, please call: 📞 779-6-15-33 Oksana

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🍎 More fruit—more vitamins and care! Our "Vitamins from the Garden" project continues to grow! Thanks to a grant from Food Security, we purchased two more dehydrators—now we can dry three times as much fruit at a time! 🌿 But the project wouldn't be possible without those who share the harvest from their gardens. If you have surplus apples, pears, plums, berries, or other fruit—please share with us! 🍐🍑 And our volunteers know what to do with them: wash, peel, slice, dry—and turn these generous summer gifts into healthy dried fruit for our community members. 💚 Today, we worked on a whole bucket of apples! 🍏 And also—polyester padding, pillows, tea, and heartfelt conversations. What a productive volunteer day: a good deed accomplished, and time spent together productively! ☕️❤️ 🌱 Share your harvest – we'll turn it into vitamins and care! You have apples – we have dryers and volunteers! 📩 If you'd like to donate surplus apples from your garden or vegetable patch, contact us. 📞775 21135 Anna 👉For more information, see https://vox.jct.md/vitamini-s-gryadki-bolshe-sushim-bolshe-delimsya #rvc Volunteer Center RVC

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Summer generously gifts us with fruits, vegetables, and berries. And some have more harvest than their families can eat. This is when it's especially important to remember: goodness can be shared—and it only grows! 💚 Our Hesed continues its "Boomerang of Kindness" campaign. Those with surplus produce from their gardens can share it with those who need support now. 🍑 We will gratefully accept fruits and berries and pass them on to those in need. 🥒 Vegetables will also be received. 🍏 We can dry some of the harvested fruit in our dryers to preserve a piece of summer warmth and care. A huge thank you to everyone who has already joined the campaign and shared not only their harvest but also their warmth, attention, and care for others. ❤️ We also believe that good deeds can and should be shared! After all, one person's story can inspire another to take a step forward. 🌿 Shared your harvest? Helped a neighbor? Did a good deed? Tell us about it and launch your own "Boomerang of Kindness"! 👉 You can share your good deed at this link: https://forms.gle/EPQw9iEQAM9VS5io7 May there be more good stories, and may kindness return to everyone with new warmth and care! 💚 📞775 211 35 Anna Volunteer Center RVC #rvc

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This week, our volunteers gathered again to bake challah for members of the Jewish community in Rybnitsa and Tiraspol. Behind each challah lies not only flour, dough, and the aroma of freshly baked goods, but also the desire to give a person attention, care, and a feeling of being remembered. For many of our elderly residents, challah for Shabbat is more than just a treat for the holiday table 🥖. It's a sign that they remain part of the community, that there are people nearby who care about their well-being and spirits. This is especially valuable for those who live alone or whose children and grandchildren are far away. But for the challah to actually reach the hands of its intended recipients, we need people. And now we especially need volunteers. 🚗 We need helpers who are ready to: 📍 deliver challah to other cities in Transnistria; 📍 help distribute challah throughout Tiraspol; 📍 Visit an elderly person, give them challah, and just chat for a bit. Sometimes a good deed doesn't take much time. Just 30 minutes can be the warmest moment of a lonely person's day. Bringing challah, asking how they're doing, listening to a few stories, wishing them a good Shabbat—it seems like very little. But it's these small gestures that truly express care. 💙 And it doesn't matter how old you are. We have no age limit for good deeds. All that matters is the desire to help. 🤝 If you're ready to give a little of your time, join our volunteer team. Perhaps your help will allow us to deliver challah to someone who is eager not only for freshly baked goods but also for simple human attention. 🥖 Challah is the bread of Shabbat. And the care we convey with it is the warmth of the community. Join us. Together we can do a little more good. ✨ 📞 77521135 Anna 👉See also the link https://vox.jct.md/inogda-30-minut-eto-tseliy-mir-tepla Volunteer Center RVC C #RVC

🫶Our volunteers at Hesed have gathered again to do their favorite thing. Now they are stuffing soft pillows for those in our care. It seems simple, but first you need to sort through the synthetic padding, clean out any excess pieces, shred it—and only then fill each pillow with it. Leisurely conversations make the work more fun, and your hands get excellent fine motor skills training. 🙌 Want to spend time productively, socialize, and do good deeds? Join the "Rukodelynitsy"! Together it's warmer, more interesting, and more fun. 💛😊 📞775 211 35 Anna 👉For more information, visit the link https://vox.jct.md/leto-ne-vremya-lenitsya-proekt-rukodelnitsi-prodolzhaet-tvorit-dobro Volunteer Center RVC #rvc

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❤️ Tu B'Av—a holiday of love and joy! This week, representatives of the older generation of the Transnistrian Jewish community celebrated this special day online. 🌸 📖 They reminisced about the history and traditions of Tu B'Av, watched a vibrant presentation and thematic videos, and concluded the meeting with a documentary about Batya Barg and her family. 🎬 It was a film about love—love for family, life, tradition, and memory. Batya's story, which endured terrible losses but retained her light, spiritual strength, and ability to enjoy life, deeply touched all participants. 💬 "Today's broadcast was incredibly wonderful," shared Yakov Galperin. ✨ Such meetings remind us: love is care, memory, support, and the ability to maintain joy even in the face of adversity. Tu B'Av sameach! ❤️ May every home be filled with more love, warmth, and joy! 👉For more information about the event, see https://vox.jct.md/literaturnaya-gostinaya-poeziya-sogrevayushchaya-dushu Volunteer Center RVC #RVC

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📚✨ The "Literary Salon" once again brought together poetry lovers! Today, our monthly online meeting took place, featuring Transnistrian poet Konstantin Anatolyevich Zhosan. 🌿 His poems about his homeland, the nature of his native land, human destinies, and eternal values brought a wealth of vivid emotions to the participants. Particularly touching were the heartfelt works "Lost Happiness" and "Three Mothers," which express love for the homeland, gratitude to the mother who gave life, and respect for the mother of one's children, while raising sensitive topics. 🍃 The poet has a surprisingly subtle ability to see beauty in the world around him: the fragrant coolness, the freshness of acacias, the elegantly decorated birches, golden sunrises, and blooming roses came to life in his lines, filling the meeting with a special atmosphere of warmth and inspiration. 💙 We thank Konstantin Anatolyevich for his sincerity, warmth, and talent, and all the participants for their interest, kind comments, and love of poetry, and our volunteer Valery Kupershmidt for being our guest today. 🌸 See you again in our "Literary Living Room"! 👉For more information, see https://vox.jct.md/literaturnaya-gostinaya-poeziya-sogrevayushchaya-dushu Volunteer Center RVC #RVC