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Reuven Vershuvsky shares his inspiring story of surviving behind the Iron Curtain and strengthening his connection to Hashem and Torah.
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rabbi Rubin ver Schiff ski story is one of heroism courage faith and resilience in the face of extreme hardship and unrelenting challenges hear him describe how he survived behind the Iron Curtain and emerged with his connection to Hashem and his Torah stronger than ever today we live in a society that you're not afraid to go with the Yarmouk um you not afraid to go with the Yarmouk um you had or say to people that you're Jewish and you don't feel you danger or you you you not ashamed to say that in Moscow 1979 1970s the word Jew was not mentioned anywhere in the media people avoided saying Jew Jewish whether Jewish avoided saying Jew Jewish whether Jewish people are not Jewish people equally avoided that it was a taboo word religion was also something that people didn't know about they didn't they didn't see religious people and they thought that being religious is a mental illness when I first came to show two illness when I first came to show two masks Moscow has two synagogues one that people knew about some people knew about the central synagogue on a heap of a street and second one Marinero sure that was tiny little wooden house that people didn't know about so when I was in the seventh grade and school me and my classmate we and school me and my classmate we decided to go to a show he he was Jewish we decided to skip a period take subway train to wash it Nagina and we didn't know how to find a synagogue and it was kind of we were shy we were afraid to ask people around we
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