Re: [Cz-L] Euromaidan victim..

 Mimi,

Alexander Shcherbatyuk was a Ukrainian (I am not sure if he had any
Jewish descent) and an active member of a Messianic Jewish
Congregation (there are two of those in Chernivtsi, he belonged to
Beit Simcha). Members of this congregation (not to be confused with
Jews for Jesus, although there are many similarities) clearly identify
themselves as Christians, but at the same time observe all Jewish
holidays, use Jewish terminology, most are militantly Zionist and
pro-Israel, etc. Wikipedia provides an adequate description of this
phenomenon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messianic_Judaism). The site
of this community is in Russian, but the pictures will give you a very
good idea on what it is all about
(http://ieshua.org/category/obshhiny).

To complicate things even more, Shcherbatyuk's 12 year old son is a
student in the Chernivtsi Jewish School, where apparently the majority
of students have little or no Jewish connection.

That explains the confusion about Shcherbatyuk's religious identity in
the news reports:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-afghan-war-vet-killed-fighting-in-kiev-buried/
http://www.ort.org/en/news-and-reports/world-ort-news/article/ort-students-father-killed-in-ukraine-unrest/
http://www.ort.org/en/news-and-reports/world-ort-news/article/security-increased-at-ort-schools-in-ukraine/

What really matters here is that he was killed by a sniper, fighting
the corrupt government.

Iosif

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:
> I believe that Alexander Shcherbaniuk, the man about whose funeral
> we heard from both Benjamin Grilj and Hardy, most probably belonged
> to the Seventh Day Adventists who pray at the Toynbee Halle and are
> the same Judo-Christian sect as the former Subotniki.
>
> Or he may have been of mixed parentage; Christian and Jewish.
> May his family take comfort from the fact that he lost his life in a worthy
> cause.
>
> Mimi
>
> On Feb 24, 2014, at 2:20 PM, HARDY BREIER wrote:
>
>> He was buried at the Christian cemetery on the RH side of Zelenya,
>> One of the underground Jewish Czernowitzer.
>> We know very little about.
>> We know NOTHING about !
>> How many of his kind ?
>> How many Jews are left in Czernowitz ?
>> We will never know,
>> Hardy

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