FCJ Reports Ukrainian Jews Desperate to Escape Unrest, Make Aliyah to Israel - JNS BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

New olim from Ukraine with The Fellowship Founder and President Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein (center) waving Israeli flags. (Photo Credit: Olivier Fitoussi)

FCJ Reports Ukrainian Jews Desperate to Escape Unrest, Make Aliyah to Israel

By JNS August 16, 2016   BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

“Now Hashem said unto Avram: ‘Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto the land that I will show thee.” Genesis 12:1 (The Israel Bible™)

The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, or The Fellowship, said that in the last two weeks they have been flooded with hundreds of calls from Ukrainian Jews inquiring about immigrating to Israel as a result of increased tensions with Russia.

In the past month alone, The Fellowship, known for helping Jews immigrate to Israel, has received more than 1,700 inquiries (over 1,000 emails and 720 phone calls) from Jews in the Ukraine in their office in Kiev, the organization said.

There are 260,000 Jews living in the Ukraine and about 5,000 Jews are eligible for emigration who live in the Donbass region, which has been experiencing violence and unrest since March 2014 when government troops began fighting pro-Russian rebels, following the Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

“The plight of the Jewish people in Ukraine is deteriorating,” said Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder and president of The Fellowship. “Our support for them will mean the difference between life and death, whether we’re providing critical aid such as food and medicine or helping those who wish to immigrate to Israel.”

Overall, as a result of the conflict and rising tensions in the region, The Fellowship has brought more than 3,200 Jews from the Ukraine to Israel.

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And they return to you with all their heart and all their soul in the land of their captivity, of those who had captured them, and they pray by way of their land that You gave to their forefathers, and the city that You have chosen and through the Temple that I built for Your Name. CHRONICLES II (6:38)   וְשָׁבוּ אֵלֶיךָ בְּכָל לִבָּם וּבְכָל נַפְשָׁם בְּאֶרֶץ שִׁבְיָם אֲשֶׁר שָׁבוּ אֹתָם וְהִתְפַּלְלוּ דֶּרֶךְ אַרְצָם אֲשֶׁר נָתַתָּה לַאֲבוֹתָם וְהָעִיר  אֲשֶׁר בָּחַרְתָּ וְלַבַּיִת אֲשֶׁר בָּנִיתִי לִשְׁמֶךָ דברי הימים ב ו:לח v'-SHA-vu ay-LEH-kha b'-khol li-BAM u-v'-khol naf-SHAM b'-EH-retz shiv-YAM a-sher sha-VU oh-TAM v'-hit-pa-l'-LU DE-rekh ar-TZAM ah-SHER na-TA-ta la-ah-vo-TAM v'-ha-EER a-SHER bah-KHAR-tah v'-la-BA-yeet a-sher bah-NEE-tee lish-MEH-kha

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Ukrainian Jews Flee Violence, Fulfill Prophecy

Ukrainian Jews Flee Violence, Fulfill Prophecy

Julie Stahl and Chris Mitchell, CBN News  May 7, 2014

JERUSALEM, Israel -- The disintegrating situation in Ukraine has led to an increase in anti-Semitic attacks against Jews living in the country. Many Jews are talking about escaping to Israel.

Nineteen Ukrainian Jews arrived in Israel this week after escaping the violence engulfing their country. Others still wait and worry about relatives left behind.

Ilena Hila Feingold, who has lived in Israel for many years, works for The Jewish Agency.

"I'm from Donetsk. I arrived to Israel in 1991 with my family but still now I have in Donetsk my aunt," Feingold told CBN News. "She's 86 and I'm very worried -- what about her, I don't hear about her. I'm only praying that it will be okay."

Feingold's job is to help other Jewish people come home to Israel.

"For the Jewish people it's different and it's different in all cities -- in the Western part of Ukraine, it's not the same to the eastern part -- but the one thing is common that we feel that the Jews want to go to Israel more, [many] of them," Feingold said.

In the early 1990s, more than a million Jews immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union, many of them from the Ukraine. That tapered off, but now immigration from the Ukraine has risen more than 100 percent in the first months of 2014.

Ilena and Daria, friends in their early twenties, arrived on this week's flight.

"It's a difficult situation in my country. I'm from Ukraine; that's why I'm here and I love Israel," Daria said. "I've been here many times. I have relatives here. That's my country."

Ilena came earlier on a study program and now she's back to stay.

"Oh it's a hard situation. Everyday people are dying there," Ilena said. "I don't know if it's safe for now to be there for Jews."

The flight that arrived in Israel this week was sponsored by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, which began helping Jews immigrate to Israel more than 25 years ago.

"The Embassy has already helped more than 40,000 Ukrainian Jews; sometimes it was in times of conflict like this," ICEJ spokesman David Parsons said. "This seems to be another occasion where Jews are in danger in the Ukraine. There have been an increase in anti-Semitic attacks and they're wanting to come home."

Parsons sees this return as a part of biblical prophecy.

"We do believe that the return of the Jewish people is fulfillment of God's promises to bring the Jews back," Parsons told CBN News.

"Some Christians sort of focus on the dark side of prophecy -- Who's the anti-Christ? When is Armageddon going to happen? -- but we focus on the positive side, the return of the Jews," Parsons said.

"Even in the Hebrew prophets it speaks of gentiles assisting with this," he continued. "And we see ourselves in Scripture as those gentiles that God has beckoned to, as it says in Isaiah 49, come help with the return of the Jews back to the land."

Watch the video: Hungarian Jews Leaving for Israel

For Ukrainian Jews, Crisis Raises Ghost of Holocaust

For Ukrainian Jews, 

Crisis Raises Ghost of Holocaust

Chris Mitchell

CBN News 03.07.14

JERUSALEM, Israel -- The situation in the Ukraine pits East versus West, but as often happens in a crisis, Jewish people are caught in the middle.

While the images of Russian troops, protests and barricades dominate the news, behind the scenes another drama is playing out.

Michael Utterback, with Ministry to Israel and Ezra International, said Ukrainian Jews are fearful.

"The Jews are afraid," Utterback told CBN News. "All across the Ukraine, there's a fear, not a panic, but there's a fear that they'll be blamed for a lot of the problems that are taking place in the Ukraine right now."

The Jewish people in Ukraine today remember their history and have reason to fear. Nearly a million Ukrainian Jews were killed in the Holocaust and more than 30,000 of them in the infamous Babi Yar massacre in 1941 in Kiev.

Now, once again they see foreign troops on their soil.

"When they see an invader come in who has a hatred for Jewish people they become afraid," Utterback explained.

Utterback serves with two organizations that have helped more than 130,000 Jews emigrate from the former Soviet Union to Israel since 1991. He said now many more are looking for a way out to go to the Jewish state.

"We have 15 full-time workers and hundreds of volunteers that are working with the Jews all across the Ukraine," he said. "Recently, we have seen the people asking for assistance."

"That number has doubled since all of this has gone on," he continued. "And they're calling night and day asking for someone to know how to immigrate to Israel."

Utterback said despite the crisis, prophecy is being fulfilled.

"If you pull back from all of this and look at what really is taking place from a spiritual perspective, we're watching prophecy come to pass before our very eyes," he told CBN News.

"God promised there would come a day when Jews would have to come back to their own land," he said.

Utterback said it's time to pray for the Ukraine.

"I believe that if believers all over the world would begin praying for the Ukraine, that God would help them in the situation they're in," he said. "Pray that God would spread that throughout the nation and that righteousness would once again reign throughout that land."

Watch here: CBN News video