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Jewish Community of Novokuznetsk

Новокузнецкая Еврейская община

Jewish Community Center

Jewish Community Center in Novokuznetsk, , led by Rabbi Menachem Rabinovitz.

The Federation of Jewish Communities (FJC) was established in November 1998 to revive the Jewish communities of the Former Soviet Union . We provide humanitarian aid and Jewish education, organize cultural events and religious services, and help develop Jewish communities and rebuild Jewish institutions.

Our main bureau represents member interests on the international front, and we also represent community members in government and institutional forums. The FJC, at all times, strives to develop and maintain good working relations with members of other faiths.

Since its launch we have posted over ninety rabbis and countless community leaders in central locations, and have been recognized as an umbrella organization that represents and administers a variety of established funds and institutions that operate in the region.

Jewish life in the FSU region has existed for centuries. Towards the middle of the 19 th Century, communities began to gain distinction and Jews began to populate the more prominent echelons of society. Intellectuals and bankers, artists and professionals, even Jewish politicians began to hold sway. In addition to such luminaries as the famous Chassidic masters, head deans of world renown Yeshivot and outstanding community Rabbis, the world of Jewish culture also boasts names such as Tchernichowsky, Shalom Aleichem and Y. L. Peretz.

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Programs

Day schools
Senior Welfare
Adult education
JLI – Innovative Torah classes
Holidays
Bar & Bat Mitzvah
Synagogues
Mikvah
Youth Seminars
Arevim Youth Centers
Summer Camp
Synagogue Kindergarten & Afternoon School

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People

Rabbi Menachem RabinovitzCo-director
Mrs. Chaya Pearl RabinovitzCo-director

What they offer

Jewish Community of Novokuznetsk is a Jewish community centre in Novokuznetsk, led by Rabbi Menachem Rabinovitz.

There is a synagogue on the premises. Visitors are welcomed for Shabbat and holiday meals. Kosher meals are available on a meal plan. A kosher store is run here. There is a Judaica shop. They kosher kitchens for the community.

Classes run regularly, one-to-one study can be arranged, courses from the Jewish Learning Institute are taught and public lectures are held. There is a library.

For children there is a preschool, a Hebrew school, after-school programmes, a children's club and a mother-and-child group.

Older children and young adults have a teen club, bar and bat mitzvah instruction, a bar mitzvah club and a bat mitzvah club.

They officiate at weddings, circumcisions and funerals. Couples are prepared for marriage. A chevra kadisha serves the community.

The center visits patients in hospital, visits Jewish prisoners, serves military personnel, looks after the elderly, distributes food packages, provides humanitarian aid and runs a soup kitchen.

There is a women's group. Mezuzos and tefillin can be checked here.