In late April I was in Czernowitz for a few days. Despite the ongoing
war
in the eastern Ukraine and the economic problems caused by this war,
Czernowitz and nearby villages seems much the same
as in the previous few years, if anything, it seems more prosperous.
In the villages there is much construction of beautiful new houses
and in Czernowitz there are nice new stores, a new hotel on the
Ringplatz,
and very good new restaurants. People are well dressed,
there are tourists from within the Ukraine, as well as some from abroad
and businessmen from various other countries seem to have discovered
the opportunities available to them.
Rabbi Menahem Mendel Glisnshtain has completely refurbished
the synagogue, so that it now includes a kindergarten, a mikvah
and an after-school facility for kids who's parents are not at home
when the kids come home from school.
I have put the photographs we took in Czernowitz on a Picasaweb album,
which you can access at:
https://picasaweb.google.com/MReiferTaylor/CzernowitzApril2015?authkey=Gv1sRgCOve0IPHlY_miAE
[Mimi Taylor]
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