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On May, 20, Friday, Zhanna Vitebskaya, the mistress of the Nizhny Novgorod Jewish kindergarten of “Gan Menachem”, bore the third son.

On the 8^th day according to the Jewish tradition, in the synagogue there was circumcision (Brit Mila). A Mohel from Israel did it.

The boy was called Alexander Yaakov in honor of his Granddad.

We wish the Vitebskys a lot of Mazl Tov. May they get from their kids only happiness and see in their life only joy.

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In the paper you have opportunity to read news of our community, articles of the Nizhny Novgorod naval architect of Mikhail I. Lerner, of the respectable veteran of the Nizhny Novgorod region Abrek I. Dudelzak and of Lev M. Reinish. The widow of the latter presented a luster for the pray hall in honor of rise of his soul. In addition, you have an opportunity to view two photo galleries: on the youth seminar which was in the recreation center of ‘Dubky” and on the river row along the Volga which was for the holyday of Lag Ba-Omer, and, surely, to read articles of our regular headings.

The paper is published in 3700 copies and is mailed all Jew of the city.

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On May, 22, Sunday, there was the two hours row along the Volga by the excellent motor ship of “Otdykh-1”. For the row they organized for kids the special program with prizes and sweets, appearance of a conjurer and a clown. The kids were drawing and making various articles. For adults there was working a bar of the kosher restaurant of “Shalom”. There was playing Jewish music. In the row there took part a few hundred persons. They got enormous pleasure from the good weather and (the most important) from intercourse with their friends and relatives who are members of our community.

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The first ten-day period of May of this year is rich in holydays and memorial dates: the Holyday of Spring and Labour (May, 1), the Day of the Catastrophe and Heroism (Yom ha-Shoah, May, 2), The Day of Radio (May, 5), the Victory Day (May, 9), the Day of Memory of Warriors Who Perished in Battles for Liberation of Israel (Yom ha-Zikaron, May, 9) and the Day of Independence of Israel (Yom ha-Tzmaut, May, 10). Every called day is precious and important for us. How to have time for recalling and telling these events properly?

In the Jewish philanthropic foundation of “Chesed Sara” on May 8 there was a holyday meeting for veterans of the war, toilers of the home front and all interesting persons. St. George’s Ribbons decorated and a placard dedicated to the Victory Day an improvised stage. The librarian of the “Chesed” of Svetlana Katsnelson prepared an exhibition of books on the subject of the Great Patriotic War and of Catastrophe of European Jew. Here there were reminiscences of our residents of Nizhny Novgorod who had taken part in the war. The hall was full. In the first rows there were sitting the veterans, a lot of them wore ceremonial dresses with awards.

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Since April, 29, to May, 1 in the sanatorium of “Dubki” there were the youth Jewish seminar “I and Another Person”. The organizer was the youth club of the Nizhny Novgorod Jewish society by financial support of the “Foundation of Mirilashvili”. There come to the seminar 84 persons from various cities: Kazan, Moscow, Ulyanovsk, Magnitogorsk, and Chelyabinsk. For teaching they had specially invited professional in the sphere of oratory, business and communication.

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On April 18, Monday, in the restaurant of “Shalom” there was celebration of Pesach. In the Seder there participated 180 persons. It was lead by the Rabbi of Shimon Bergman. In addition, there took part families of Rabinovitzes and Bergmans.

On April 19, Tuesday, in the synagogue there was a kids Seder. There took part 70 kids, for them they organized an excellent entertaining program.

On April 26, Tuesday, there was the prayer of Yzkor in which there took part more than one hundred Jews. This night there was “The Festival of Moshiah” in which there are several tens of guests.

The Rabbi of Shimon Bergman mentioned that this year it had felt festive mood: All the ordered Matzoth and grape juice had been sold (more than two tons!), and for the Seder and the prayer of Yzkor there had been no free seats.

In the paper you have opportunity to read news of our community and school of “Or Avner”, information of programs of the youth club and the holyday of Pesach and to view the photo gallery from the holyday of Purim. From this issue of the paper we began to publish articles of famous persons of Nizhny Novgorod. The presenter of this rubric is the President of our community of Eduard M. Chaprak.

In this issue there is an article of Semen A. Lavochkin.

The paper is published in 3700 copies and is mailed all Jew of the city.

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On March 20, Sunday, in the synagogue they celebrated the holyday of Purim in which there took part hundreds of kids and adults. At the beginning of the festival all assembled in the prayer hall and listened to reciting the Scroll of Ester. For the reciting they showed a dumb show film of the history of the holyday. At the end of the reciting all kids were invited to the conference chamber where they were waited by a jolly clown. After the show the kids took part in tens of contests and games prepared specially for the kids. At the same time in the prayer hall for adults there were appearance of artists of the Moscow Show Theater of “Tum Balalaika”. They were singing Jewish songs and made the festival to be very joyful and merry for adults too.

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