Belarus News » Pinsk News Belarus » Pinsk » History: From Minsk to Pinsk Belarus’ Chief Rabbi Has High Hopes, but Will the Country’s Jews Listen?
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Published on: Thursday 11 March 2004
Rabbi Sender Uritsky has a dream. Virtually unattainable, even by his own calculations, but a dream nonetheless. From a tungsten-lit office cluttered with religious texts, paperwork and dirty teacups, ...
News Belarus » Pinsk » History: From Misnk to Pinsk for Belarus’ Oldest Yiddish Writer, Painful Past a Part of His Present World
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Published on: Thursday 18 March 2004
Grigory Reles has a lot to cry about. Belarus’ greatest living Yiddish writer and last literary link to shtetl life here breaks into tears twice during a recent two-hour conversation. The first comes ...