Moskovitz family leaves Kharkiv
"There's just constant, constant, constant bombing … In the beginning it was directed towards specific government buildings or something related to the army. And now it's just indiscriminate."
THE Australian rebbetzin, whose husband is the rabbi of Kharkiv in Ukraine, has arrived in Israel after fleeing the war-torn country with her family last week.
Miriam Moskovitz told The AJN yesterday that they felt they had no choice after a Russian missile struck a house just two doors down, and after the windows and doors were blown out of their kindergarten and school.
“It’s not bearable at the moment to be living over there. There’s just constant, constant, constant bombing … In the beginning it was directed towards specific government buildings or something related to the army. And now it’s just indiscriminate. It’s hospitals, it’s schools, it’s houses. One of the rabbi’s houses was actually blown up yesterday.”
Despite being in Israel, she said they’re still coordinating relief and evacuation efforts for the community left behind and the 150 people sheltering in the shule.
“We’re hoping to return,” Moskovitz mused. “We’re desperately hoping this war is going to end any minute because the pain and the suffering that people are going through is extremely, extremely difficult to hear. The people that are calling you, ‘we haven’t eaten for four days, please bring us food.’ You know, somebody was killed today, the first one that we know about a Jewish lady, and we’re trying to arrange, in all this craziness, a Jewish burial for desperate relatives.”
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