In the historic city of Kaliningrad, on the Baltic coast, a Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania, after a two-hour flight from Moscow, the Russian capital, a couple of new emissaries landed a few days ago, joining hundreds of Rebbe emissaries in the CIS countries.
Russia’s apostle and chief rabbi Burl Lazar, Appointed the R. family Avraham Baruch and Chaya Moshka Deitch, For emissaries in the city, to increase activity with the local youth and expand Chabad activity in this important city.
In the city center is a large and magnificent synagogue that was rebuilt about two years ago – 80 years after it was the first to be destroyed by the Nazis on the famous “Kristallnacht”, since Kaliningrad was under German control in those days and was called “Königsberg”, which is also the famous Jewish name of The city.
On Kristallnacht, a German mob burned down the five synagogues of Königsberg, and part of the school that housed one of the synagogues. Few of the city’s Jews managed to emigrate from it, but most of them were sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp by the end of 1952, where they were persecuted for the sanctification of God.
When the city was conquered by the Soviets, few Jews remained in it. In recent years, the community has been renewed by the Association of Jewish Communities in Russia, headed by Rabbi Shlita of Russia, under the rabbi of the city, the emissary Rabbi David Shvedik.
The city also has the grave of the founder of the submitter movement, Rabbi Yisrael of Salant, and many people come to his grave on the 25th of January in the tribe and are hosted in the synagogue in the city center.
The new apostle, is the son of the great apostle Shea German From Moscow and son-in-law of the emissary in Rehovot Harav Michael Reinitz And when he came with his family, a new and young spirit began to return to the Jewish community in many challenging areas and ahead of Hanukkah, a number of events will be held in the community – subject to the instructions of the Russian Ministry of Health – to the delight of many Jewish families in the city.
