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Lit with neon lights, the fifteen men are gathered in the yeshiva of the Rozenberg synagogue in Kiev.
Some wear the beketsche, the black overcoat of the ultra-Orthodox, others, less religious, are simply wearing kippas.
A woman is seated in an adjoining room.
They are the last Jews from the Podil district, in the center of the Ukrainian capital, gathered for Shabbat prayer on this Friday, the sixteenth day of the war launched by Vladimir Putin against Ukraine.
They praise God by reciting the Ashrei;
they pray for their community, the Ukrainian army and the whole country to be saved, as explosions thunder in the distance.
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I stayed in Kiev out of conviction, to help the Jewish community and do my religious duty to it
," says an ultra-Orthodox on the sidelines of prayers.
For me this war is worse than the Second World War, because I have just been affected personally.
My…
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