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Establishing Jewish identity in the Ukraine

Office for Jewish ancestry clarification purposes was inaugurated in the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk.

Last weekend an office for Jewish ancestry clarification purposes was inaugurated in the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk.
The new office was opened as part of a co-operation between the Triguboff Institute established by Sydney businessman Harry Triguboff and the Tzohar organization, in order to aid the Jews of Ukraine to clarify their personal Jewish status while they are still in their country of origin.
Consequently it will prevent situations in which there is no ability to prove a Jewish origin once aliyah to Israel was made and the documents were left behind.
The new office will serve as a branch of the Shorashim organization and it will serve the tens of thousands of Jews from the East Ukrainian of Dnipropetrovsk and its environs as well as the thousands of Jewish refugees who fled the battle zones in the eastern part of the country and are now concentrated in the city and around it. This branch joins the existent two offices of the organization in Kiev in Moscow in addition to the main office, situated in Jerusalem…

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