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Euroasian Jewish News
The STATEMENT of the leaders and representatives of Jewish organizations and communities acting in Ukraine.
21.07.2003
We, the leaders and representatives of Jewish organizations and communities in Ukraine regard the content and style of the statement published in the “VEK” newspaper on July 8, 2003 – directed against Joseph Zissels, Chairman of Vaad of Ukraine – completely inadmissible and unacceptable, both in the larger Jewish world and the Ukrainian Jewish community.
Whatever misunderstandings on various Jewish and non-Jewish issues exist, we disagree with the methods used by the organizers of the “VEK” statement to express them.
We consider that Joseph Zissels is one of the most active and authoritative leaders of the Ukrainian Jewish Community and are ready to collaborate further with him for the good of all Ukrainian Jews.
| Director, the Center Jewish Education of Ukraine; Council Member, the Kiev-city Jewish community; Coordination Council Member, the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine; Presidium Member, the Vaad of Ukraine | | Yana Yanover |
| Presidium Member, the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine | | Alexander Paskhaver |
| Program Board Director, the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress; Council Member, the Kiev-city Jewish community | | Lyudmila Braginskaya |
| Coordination Council Member, the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine; Presidium Member, the Vaad of Ukraine (Sumy-city) | | Valeriy Kontsevich |
| Director, the Institute of Jewish Studies; Council Member, the Kiev-city Jewish community; Coordination Council Member, the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine; Presidium Member, the Vaad of Ukraine | | Leonid Finberg |
| Coordination Council Member, the Vaad of Ukraine; Council Member, the Kiev-city Jewish community; Executive Director, the Charitable Jewish Fund of Ukraine «Miloserdie–Magen-Avot» | | Yuri Slutskiy |
| Chief, the “Kherut-Olamit” Representation in Ukraine | | Timur Mishiev |
| Chief, the World-wide Movement of Workers «Avoda Olamit» Representation in Ukraine | | Alexey Lapidus |
| Founder Council Chairman, the International Solomon University | | Roman Shapshovich |
| Executive Director, the Kiev Jewish Society “Makkaby-Kiev”; Council Member, the Kyiv-city Jewish community; Government Member, the Zionist Federation of Ukraine | | Yevgeniy Greben |
| Vice-President, the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine | | Roman Korenblit |
| The Jewish Sunday School; The Jewish Culture Society (Berdichev-city) | | Alexander Frenkel |
| Director, The League Magen-Ukraine; Council Member, the Kiev-city Jewish community; Presidium Member, the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine; Council Member, the World Congress of Russian Jewry; Vice Chairman, the Vaad of Ukraine | | Igor Kuperberg |
| Coordination Council Member, the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine; Council Member, the Kiev-city Jewish community; Director, the Committee of Repatriation | | Ida Onufriichuk |
| President, the Women Club “Hava” | | Maya Zaitseva |
| Chief Editor, the “Khadashot” newspaper | | Timur Litovchenko |
| General Director, the Jewish National Foundation in Ukraine (KKL) | | Igor Dobryanskiy |
| Board Chairman, the Humanitarian Organization of Jewish schools “Or-Sameah”, Odessa | | Mark Kutseiko |
| Chairman, the Jewish religious community in Vinnitsa | | Isaak Novoselitsky |
| Newspaper “Community” editor, Vinnitsa | | Igor Desner |
| Chairman, the Jewish culture Society in Uman | | Lev Guralnik |
| Executive Director, the Charitable Fund “Magen-Avot” in Mukachevo | | Alla Agafonova |
| Presidium Member, the of Vaad of Ukraine; Chief, the “Beiteinu-Olamit” Representation in Ukraine | | Arkadiy Hidekeli |
| Chairman, the Jewish community in Zaporozhie; Presidium Member, the Vaad of Ukraine; Member of the Council of Regions, the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine; Responsible Secretary of the society “Ukraine-Israel” in Zaporozhie | | Boris Esterkin |
| Chairman of the Jewish community, Chairman of the Jewish religious community, Chairman of the Jewish culture Society in Krivoi Rog | | Yuri Shifrin |
| Chairman, the “Hesed-Leib” Board; Chairman, the Charitable Fund Board “Magen-Avot” in Ivano-Frankovsk | | Mikhael Yuris |
| Director, the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies; Presidium Member, the Vaad of Ukraine | | Anatoliy Podolskiy |
| Representative of The Historical Video-documents foundation “Shoa Survivers” in Ukraine | | Anna Yudkovskaya |
| Leader, The Dancing National Amateur Ensemble "Mikol Khalev", Vinnitsa | | M. Lyaskovskaya |
| Deputy Chairman of the Chernovtsy Jewish Community Cultural Fund | | Isolda Rubinstein |
| Chairman of the Chernovtsy Charity Fund | | Maria Birnbaum |
| Executive Director of the JCFU branch in Chernovtsy | | Efim Pisarenko |
| Administrator of the Jewish Cultural Center | | Iakov Tau |
| Leader of the Progressive Judaism Congregation, Chernovtsy | | Polina Korenblum |
| Director of the Radiobroadcast “Dos Yiddishe Wort” | | Frida Palanker |
| Jewish Gymnasium #299 (Kiev) | | Igor Maidanich |
| Jewish Gymnasium #299 (Kiev) | | Leonid Kagan |
| Government Member, the Zionist Federation of Ukraine | | Maxim Baryshnikov |
| Chief, the “Beitar-FSU” | | Alexander Benderskyi |
| Government Member, the Zionist Federation of Ukraine, Coordinator, the “KIDMA” Organization in Ukraine | | Artem Kobzan |
| The Jewish tradition teacher, the sunday school of the Traditional Judaism Community (Kiev) | | Diana Gold |
| Chairman of the Traditional Judaism Community (Uzhgorod) | | Andrey Rotman |
| Chairman, the Jewish community in Rovno | | Yakov Grifko |
Collection of signatures is still in progress.
Reproduced from www.vaadua.org
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