A cohort of women born in the former Soviet Union are fusing their childhood background and Israeli adulthood through art.

Over 40,000 citizens of Ukraine and Russia have fled to Israel since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of his country’s southern neighbor.

Israel has provided a home to Jews who cannot imagine living anywhere else and—just as important—those who have nowhere else to go.

Synagogues and other Jewish groups have historically mobilized to help resettle refugees—most recently from Afghanistan, and soon from Ukraine.

Of the multitude of lands from which Jews came, Ukraine is uppermost in our thoughts today.

Israeli artist Zoya Cherkassky, who was born in Ukraine, uses drawing and painting to process the horrific images of war in the country.

By mid-March, IsraAID had 22 aid workers in Moldova, among them therapists, medics and trauma counselors fluent in Ukrainian and Russian.

Babyn Yar, the site of so much tragedy, seemed on the precipice of a historic rebirth last year. Now, Russian aggression is threatening that revitalization.