05/04/2023
Jews celebrate Pesach today. It is now a Ukrainian national holiday too.
In Ukraine it became an official holiday already before the full-scale war began. At the same time this past year has made Pesach especially symbolic for us.
This is the holiday of freedom – this is the value of this day for Jews. Many centuries ago the exodus from Egypt and liberation from 400 years of slavery became a symbol of birth of the Jewish people. Today the people of Ukraine are fighting for final liberation from slavery.
Chag Pesach Sameach!
May well-deserved freedom come with spring.
Boris Lozhkin,
President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine