Two delegations — one from the Jewish Federations of North America, which included Jason Shames, the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, and the other, of local rabbis and the top lay and professional leadership of the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, just came back from the Polish/Ukrainian border. Here are some of the images delegation members took there.
At an abandoned mall in Przemysl, Poland, near the border with Ukraine, which now in being used as a refugee aid center, volunteers are organizing blankets. (Courtesy Jodi Scherl)
The JFNNA delegation includes JFNNJ CEO Jason Shames, in the second row, toward the center, wearing a maroon sweater. (Courtesy JFNNJ)
Refugees, including children, arrive in Przemysl. They can stay at the mall there for a few days as they decide where to go next. (Courtesy Jodi Scherl)
Bundles of supplies for babies line the border to greet refugees as they enter Poland. (Courtesy JFNNJ)
From left, Kaplen JCC on the Palisades board member Arthur Sinesky, CEO Steven Rogers, and board chair Jodi Scherl stand together in Poland. (Courtesy Jodi Scherl)
A woman suffering from cancer is greeted by workers from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency for Israel as she crosses into Poland. (Courtesy JFNNJ)
Krakow’s central train station has become a processing center for refugees. Here, Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner of Temple Emanu-El
of Closter and volunteers give candy
to refugee children. (Courtesy Jodi Scherl)
Rabbi Chaim Poupko of Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood talks to Joel Oppenheimer of Israel’s branch of SSF (Rescuers Without Borders/Saveteurs Sans Frontieres). (Courtesy Jodi Scherl)
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