Jewish Center in Transdniestria

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🍎🍯 Getting ready for Rosh Hashanah together! 🥖✨ On the eve of the holiday, Hesed was in full swing! Volunteers and our teenagers from AJT teamed up to bake festive round challahs. This was a new experience for the kids—it was their first time baking like this. The volunteers helped, shared secrets, and talked about traditions. Before starting the work, they said a prayer. 🙏 It's especially valuable that traditions are passed down from generation to generation through shared efforts. 🤝💙 On Sunday, at a community event, everyone will be able to try our challahs and also purchase sweet holiday challahs for home or for loved ones. Proceeds from the charity event will go toward the development of our community. 🥖 Baking challahs has already become a good tradition in our Hesed! Together we create the holiday—together we preserve the traditions! ✨ Shana tova umetuka! 🍎🍯 For more information, see https://vox.jct.md/khali-kotorie-obedinyayut-pokoleniya-podgotovka-k-rosh-kha-shana-v-obshchine #RVC #JDC Volunteer Center RVC

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🍎🍯 Tashlich by the Dniester — welcoming the New Year with good thoughts! On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, our Hesed volunteers organized a warm, festive gathering for the community's elderly clients. 🌿 The meeting place was the bank of the Dniester — a wonderful place for communication, smiles, and good wishes. Volunteers prepared fun interactive games for the participants, which brought a good mood and many pleasant emotions. Time flew by with conversations and jokes. And then came the time for one of the important Rosh Hashanah traditions — tashlich. The tradition of tashlich is associated with the symbolic release of all the bad things that one wants to leave behind from the past year. By the water, participants shook out crumbs, as if releasing along with them grievances, disappointments, and unpleasant experiences. ✨ May all the hardships be left behind, and may more joy, peace, and bright events lie ahead! After the tashlikh, everyone was treated to a traditional holiday treat—sweet apples with honey. 🍎🍯 Participants wished each other health, happiness, prosperity, and warmth. Such gatherings are not only an opportunity to preserve and experience Jewish traditions, but also a wonderful opportunity to be together. Special thanks to our volunteers, who create an atmosphere of care, attention, and a true holiday for the older generation. ❤️ May the new year bring everyone many kind encounters, pleasant events, and reasons to smile! Shana tova umetuka! — Have a good and sweet year! 🍎🍯✨ For more details, see https://vox.jct.md/tashlikh-u-dnestra-vstrechaem-noviy-god-s-dobrimi-mislyami #rvc Volunteer Center RVC #jdc #rvc #jdc Volunteer Center RVC

✡️ Shabbat Shalom! שבת שלום 🕓 In Transnistria 🕯️ Rosh Hashanah Evening Candle Lighting: 7:03 PM Rosh Hashanah 5787 Candle Lighting: 8:05 PM Rosh Hashanah II Havdalah: 8:03 PM ✅ This week we read the chapter **"Nitzavim"** - "You Stand". It reminds us that everyone stands before God and the choices of life: the wise and the simple, the elderly and the children, and everyone is responsible for their actions. It contains a message of hope: even after mistakes, you can return to goodness and start anew. This is especially important before the New Year - to enter it with honesty, unity, and good intentions. ❤️ We wish everyone a peaceful, quiet, and blessed Shabbat! Let there be peace in your souls and lightness in your hearts.

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🍎 How to properly prepare for Rosh Hashanah? SAVE AND SHARE WITH LOVED ONES! Rosh Hashanah is more than just the Jewish New Year. It's a time to pause, look back on the past year, and consider how we want to enter the new one. Preparation isn't just about the festive table. A few simple steps will help you celebrate the holiday calmly and mindfully. 🕯️ Check the holiday and candle-lighting times in your city in advance, find out the prayer schedule, and prepare a machzor if you're going to synagogue. 🛒 Don't put everything off until the last day: shopping, cooking, holiday clothes, and everything else you need are best prepared in advance. ❤️ Think about your loved ones. If you've been meaning to call someone, thank them, or ask for forgiveness, now is the time to take the first step. 📝 Set aside 15–20 minutes for heshbon ha-nefesh, or personal reflection. Reflect on the past year and write down what was good, what you learned, and what you want to change. 🤲 Don't forget about tzedakah. Before the holiday, you can make a donation or help someone who really needs it. 🍎 And on Rosh Hashanah itself, try to truly be in the moment: hear the shofar, pray, spend time with loved ones, and feel the beginning of a new year. And the main question you can take with you is: "What kind of person do I want to be this year?" 🍯🍎 Rosh Hashanah טובה ומתוקה Have a good and sweet year! Save our carousel with 10 steps to preparing for Rosh Hashanah and send it to those you want to celebrate the New Year with. Participate in a charity drive at a community event!

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Humanitarian aid for our clients 💙 Humanitarian aid distributions for Hesed clients took place in Tiraspol, Bender, Rybnitsa, Dubossary, and Grigoriopol. This support includes not only essential items, but also attention, care, and tangible assistance to those in need. We thank JDC Kishinev and all sponsors for their support and timely assistance. 💙 #JDC

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On September 6, our community members attended the opening of the 3rd edition of the National Festival "European Days of Jewish Culture" in Chisinau. 🌉 As part of the cultural and educational forum "GESHER"—a symbolic "bridge" uniting people, generations, and communities—participants enjoyed a rich and engaging program. 📚 Educational sessions, creative workshops, lively communication, new acquaintances, and meetings with representatives of Jewish communities were part of this vibrant day. Such events not only help people learn new things but also feel connected to each other, exchange ideas, be inspired, and become closer to their culture and traditions. 💙 🤝 "GESHER" truly became a bridge—between people, cities, generations, and new opportunities. Thanks to the organizers, the Jewish Community of Moldova / Comunitatea Evreiască din Republica Moldova, for the warm welcome, engaging program, and wonderful atmosphere! ✨

🥯 Volunteers are preparing for Rosh Hashanah! Our wonderful volunteers are lovingly baking traditional round challahs for the charity fair, which will take place at the community event in honor of the Rosh Hashanah holiday. 🍎🍯 At the fair, everyone can buy fresh, fragrant challah and do a good deed at the same time! ❤️ All proceeds will go toward the development of our community. Let's work together to make our community stronger, more united, and warmer! 📞 For inquiries, call: 77521135 Anna

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🎒 "Get Your Child Ready for School" — together we can do anything! This summer, our community held a charity event, which many older members of the community joined in. Notebooks, pens, paints, colored pencils, and sketchbooks—everything a schoolchild would definitely need. 📚✏️ 🎁 9 children from large families in Tiraspol received sets of essential stationery. And our volunteers delighted all the students at the AJTJunior club with small gifts—sketches and drawing pencils. 🎨 Getting a child ready for school these days is an expensive pleasure, and when there are several children, it becomes even more difficult. That's why it's so important to know that your community is there for you. We help each other. We support each other. We are together! A huge thank you to the Tikva Ajt team who helped collect the gifts and hand them out to the children. 🤝 And in return—smiles, joy, and a happy sparkle in their eyes! 😊 We wish all the children success in the new school year, interesting discoveries, and a great mood! 🌟📖 Volunteer Center RVC #rvc #jdc

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❤️ Sometimes, a good deed requires very little—attention, time, and a desire to be there. 👉After the Day Center closed at our Hesed, many members of the older generation lost the opportunity to meet and socialize. For some, this was the only way to leave the house and feel part of the Community. 🫶But our volunteers continue to provide warmth through the "Warm Home" project. Today, Larisa and Tatiana visited Lyudmila. Over a cup of tea, they shared news and memories, and Tatiana helped Lyudmila figure out how to use Facebook. Now she can keep up with everything that's going on in our Community! 📱 It's especially nice that this meeting took place on the eve of Shabbat. Lyudmila once again felt like part of a big family, where everyone is always ready to support and lend a helping hand. ❤️ What good deeds have you done in the last month? And in the last year? With Rosh Hashanah approaching, it's time to look back, take stock, and do another good deed. ✨ Do a good deed and share it by following this link: https://forms.gle/EPQw9iEQAM9VS5io7 📖 Fill out the Good Deeds Diary. Good deeds need to be talked about! It's motivating! 👉 Read more at https://vox.jct.md/vzaimopomoshch-nachinaetsya-s-prostikh-veshchey Volunteer Center RVC #RVC #JDC

✡️ Shabbat Shalom! שבת שלום 🕓 In Transnistria 🕯️ Candle lighting: 19:17 Selichot Night Chapter Nitzavim-Va'elech Havdalah: 20:20 ✅ Weekly portion: **Nitzavim-Va'elech**. In it, Moshe gathers all the people, reminds them of their covenant with God, and passes on the guidance to Yehoshua. An important thought is expressed here: the path of choice is always open—to life and goodness, or to indifference and a loss of meaning. The chapter teaches that loyalty, responsibility, and unity of the people are important for the future. This is especially relevant today: everyone is capable of choosing the light anew, even after mistakes. ❤️ We wish everyone a peaceful, quiet, and blessed Shabbat! May your souls be calm and your hearts light.

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🌿 Breath of the Forest: Watercolor Master Class 🎨 This week, members of our community's senior generation once again immersed themselves in the world of watercolor painting. 💚 First, a soft green background appeared on a white sheet of paper, then the first splashes of color. Gradually, they transformed into branches and trunks, and amazing trees came to life on the paper. 🌳✨ Each participant created their own unique and special tree. And along with the paintings, smiles, a sea of emotions, and genuine pleasure from creativity appeared! 🥰🎨 You can create at any age! 💚 The "youngest" participant is almost 90 years old! For more information, see https://vox.jct.md/dikhanie-lesa-akvarelniy-master-klass Volunteer Center RVC #rvc

✡️ Shabbat Shalom! שבת שלום 🕓 In Transnistria 🕯️ Candle lighting: 7:30 PM Ki Tavo Havdalah: 8:34 PM ✅ This week we read the chapter **"Ki Tavo"**. It speaks of gratitude for the harvest, the blessings of faithfulness, and the difficulties that come when a person and a nation lose their way. The main idea: goodness begets goodness, and remembering the gifts of life makes a person more honest and humble. This chapter is important today because it teaches gratitude, responsibility, and the belief that our choices have consequences. ❤️ We wish everyone a peaceful, quiet, and blessed Shabbat! May your souls be calm and your hearts light.