The February issue of the “Shabbat Shalom” newspaper – the second edition of 2026 – is traditionally dedicated to the rich and multifaceted life of the Dnipro Jewish Community. Across its eight pages, the publication combines reports, analysis, historical materials, and chronicles of community projects, reflecting both the spiritual and social processes within the kehillah and beyond.
The front page opens with a major feature, “To Give a Winter Fairytale,” which tells the story of the winter camp for community girls, “Five Senses,” held at the “Beit-Chana” Institute. Each day of the camp was dedicated to one of the senses – sight, taste, hearing, touch, and smell – with the program itself combining creative workshops, active recreation, and deep spiritual meaning.
Page two features a review of the weekly addresses by the Chief Rabbi of Dnipro, Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki, under the general heading “The Path to the Almighty. Always Together with the Community.” Also published here is the report “A Spiritual Shield and Symbol of Victory,” dedicated to the solemn completion and transfer of a new Sefer Torah, written at the initiative of the Belyaev family, from Dnipro to the community of Sumy.
Page three of the issue is dedicated to the activities of the “Chesed Menachem” charity fund. In the traditional news overview, readers learn about lectures dedicated to Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Ludwik Zamenhof, a teleconference with Israeli poet Anna Kupriy, the intellectual Jewish Game, and the work of the emergency assistance program. A special place is occupied by Irina Lazareva’s material on the development of the educational project “Krokuiemo Razom” (“We Walk Together”), which unites over a hundred participants online and has become an important space for Torah and Jewish tradition study during wartime.
Page four contains accounts of a women’s farbrengen, visits by members of the Dnipro Jewish Community to the Ohel of the Alter Rebbe in honor of his yahrtzeit, and news from the ECC “Solomonika.”
Page five is entirely devoted to an interview by Yevgeny Evshtein with Igor Romanov, titled “Igor Romanov: From Soviet Engineer to One of the Leaders of the Jewish Community.”
Page six features two obituaries dedicated to Zoya Lev and Lina Tsodikova, as well as a note about a women’s farbrengen on Rosh Chodesh Shvat.
Page seven includes a story about the opening of the unique exhibition “The Auschwitz Experience in the Art of Former Prisoners” at the Museum “Memory of the Jewish People and the Holocaust in Ukraine,” and an article by Igor Manevich titled “A Preface to a Preface,” marking the 85th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy.
Page eight, as always, concludes the issue with a traditional kaleidoscope of events: birthday and anniversary greetings, announcements, and a joke.
The full version of the February issue of the “Shabbat Shalom” newspaper can be read at the link
