Page 1 - The Jewish Voice - May '22

VOL. 12 NO. 5 www.seabreezepublications.com MAY 2022

The Hineini Trip:

What We Saw at the Poland-Ukraine Border

By Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin
File this one under “First World
problems.”
I arrived at the airport in Krakow,
Poland, to discover that KLM had
canceled my flight to Amsterdam,
and thence to the United States.
This is annoying and frustrating.
But during that week, I had
encountered hundreds of people
who would gladly offer to trade
their plight for mine.
• When you have seen families
sleeping together on one mattress,
their homes destroyed, wondering Rabbi Salkin (center) with international relief workers at the
if and when they will see their refugee center on the Poland-Ukraine border
husbands and fathers again …
• When you meet a Ukrainian woman at a refugee center, genocide in her family history –
with a toddler in tow, looking at a map of Europe with the Armenian, Jewish, and Ukrainian.
distances to various cities, and she says she is going to try So, yes: I can take a cab back
to go to Denmark because the Czech Republic and Germany to Krakow, and stay in a hotel for
are full … two more nights.
• When you hear a Ukrainian Jewish woman, who is Rabbis and cantors of the Hineini Trip posing with the supplies they brought for
Armenian on her mother’s side, say that this is the third The Hineini Trip on page 2 distribution to Ukrainian refugees at the JCC in Krakow
Volunteers Support South Florida

Community on International Good Deeds Day

Nearly 500 volunteers from Jewish Federation of Palm to protecting victims of
Beach County’s Jewish Volunteer Center and its Jewish child abuse and domestic
Community Relations Council as well as Palm Beach violence; and 25 children
Atlantic University joined millions of people around the participated in Mitzvah
world for the global day of service event known as Good Pizza-Making Event,
Deeds Day. Expansive volunteer initiatives included meal where they learned about
packing, collecting produce from a local farm, packing volunteerism and helped
emergency supplies for women and men in distress, a ensure more than $500 in
supply drive, and more. pizza was donated to The
Throughout the day, 250 volunteers packed 41,145 Soup Kitchen of Boynton
meals with U.S. Hunger for Alpert Jewish Family Service Beach to feed area families.
and the Palm Beach County Food Bank; 800 men’s and “Our community
women’s Dignity Grows hygiene totes were assembled continues to show up and
and donated to the Palm Beach County School District, inspire with their time and
Extended Hands Community Outreach, A Different commitment to helping
Shade of Love, and to support local human trafficking others,” shared Melissa
prevention organizations; more than 10,000 pounds of Hudson, director, Jewish
produce from Bedner Farm in Lake Worth was collected Volunteer Center. “We
for the Palm Beach County Food Bank; collected and
donated more than 50 suitcases and 100 pairs of new Volunteers Support
socks and underwear to HomeSafe, a nonprofit dedicated on page 2