Posted on 05/09/22
| News Source: CBS Baltimore WJZ
Nine members of the Beth Tfiloh Congregation in Pikesville are heading off to Moldova to support the thousands of Ukrainian refugees who are passing through the country.
Congregation members said that they intended to show the people of Moldova and the refugees how much they care about them. That is why they are providing support during difficult times.
They left for Moldova on Sunday.
“We are heading out nine of us toward a solidarity mission to Moldova to bring some smiles and some joy to refugees who are leaving from Ukraine,” Rabbi Chai Posner of the Beth Tfiloh Congregation said.
Synagogue members will be working with a humanitarian group from Israel called IsraAid to meet with refugees in shelters and at the border to show that Americans and Jews support them, Posner said.
“Basically, like, we feel helpless here with the situation there,” he said. “We wanted to do something—what can we do—and just to bring something, some kind of message of positivity.”
Church members also want to show that they support the people of Moldova who are taking in more Ukrainian refugees per capita than any other country.
“Just standing shoulder to shoulder with folks who have done so much for upward of 400,000 refugees,” Ari Mittleman said.
Mittleman organized the trip to Moldova.
