The leadership of the youth project “DJCY-STL-STARS Dnipro” of the Dnipro Jewish Community, implemented with the support of STL, has shared very good news: the start of classes for young men, a trip to Paris for the girls’ group, and an achievement by one of the participants and activists of the Jewish community.
The first news is that the new academic year has begun for students of the “Stars Intensive” program. The season’s first class, led by Rabbi Moishe Listengurt, was dedicated to the book “Tanya” – a foundational work by the founder of the Chabad movement, the First Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, also known as the Alter Rebbe.
The high-level “Stars Intensive” group currently has twenty-four students – seven young men and seventeen girls. However, the classes in Dnipro were held only for the young men, as the girls were treated to a special premium trip to Paris, the city where the Seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, studied at the Sorbonne University. Participants of the “Stars” program from many communities across Ukraine embarked on this trip, including fourteen girls from Dnipro (three were unable to participate for valid reasons).
The official opening of the new academic season for the “DJCY-STL-STARS Dnipro” project is scheduled for September 7, and immediately afterward, all students will be able to participate in celebrating the wedding of one of the program’s beloved teachers.
Another wonderful news, shared by the project manager of “DJCY-STL-STARS Dnipro,” Chaya Maltseva, concerns a major athletic victory by one of the program’s students – Emilia Lavrynets, who won the World Universiade in Germany and received a gold medal for her performance with three balls and two hoops in rhythmic gymnastics competitions.
“Our program brings together wonderful young men and girls, very diverse but united in their desire to draw closer to the Torah and mitzvot, to find themselves in the world of Yiddishkeit,” says Chaya Maltseva, project manager of “DJCY-STL-STARS Dnipro.” “Thanks to the tireless care of the Dnipro Jewish Community and its Chief Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki, we achieve greater success each year and see how our students strengthen their commitment to Torah and mitzvot, and how their lives change for the better. I hope the new academic season will lead us to even greater successes, and that all our students and our project will be inscribed for a good, happy, clear, and peaceful year.”
