World's largest Jewish community center to open in Ukraine
The world's largest Jewish community center will open in Dnipropetrovsk on Tuesday, the CIS Federation of Jewish Communities told Interfax-Ukraine.
Among the ceremony participants will be Russia's Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar, Israeli Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo, Israeli Information and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein, CIS Federation of Jewish Communities President Levi Levayev, and prominent religious and public figures from the countries of the former USSR.
The Menora Jewish center is comprised of a synagogue, a Holocaust museum, a banquet hall for 2,000 persons, a mikvah, a fashionable hotel, kosher restaurants, a library, and buildings for conferences and seminars.
The construction of the center was financed by two Jewish businessmen: Hennadiy Boholiubov (president of Dnipropetrovsk Jewish community) and Ihor Kolomoisky.
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