The fighting in Ukraine has been going on for almost 90 days, wreaking havoc and despair throughout the country.  The magnitude the catastrophe has yet to be revealed. However, some of the terrible results are already hitting close to home in Jewish communities across the country. Poverty and hunger has become common among huge swaths of the working age population, men and women who have lost their livelihood and incomes • Full Story, Photos

Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr apologized to the Senior Shliach and Chief Rabbi of Berlin Yehudah Teichtel for the anti-Semitic incident last week in which all visibly Jewish passengers were banned from their connecting flight due to several Jews who refused to wear a mask • Full Story, Video

“Seventy-seven years after the Holocaust, who would have ever thought we would be hiding from the Russians in Germany?” said Ora, a Ukrainian Jewish woman in her 60s from Dnipro. “What denazification can we talk about if we Jews are running away from the Russian army to Berlin of all places?” • Full Story

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier today visited the Chabad Jewish Center in Berlin, where 120 orphans from Odessa’s ‘Mishpacha’ orphanage have been welcomed, the youngest of whom is only 2.5 months old. As ChabadInfo.com previously reported, the orphanage, under the auspices of Rabbi Avraham Wolff, endured a grueling journey to its new temporary home, arriving in Berlin shortly before Shabbos • Photos

They arrived on buses from Odessa with the help of the Jewish Education Center Chabad Lubawitsch Berlin, which organized the rescue. They are now in the Charlottenburg section of Berlin. “We were able to secure accommodation for the first week and, thanks to the great help from the community, we were able to collect enough donations in kind,” Berlin’s Senior Shliach and Chief Rabbi Yehuda Teichtel said. “We welcomed the children with open arms” • Full Story

Germany to pay some $1,400 per person to dispense emergency COVID funding for 150,000 Jews persecuted during the Holocaust • Full story