Hundreds of Hasidic Jews organized a demonstration and blocked the crossing of the Ukraine-Belarus border on Monday night after local authorities denied them access to Ukraine. In videos posted online, dozens of families visit from Israel to the city of Ouman for the feast of Rosh Hashaná, you can simply see walking, dancing and singing a song on the road leading to the junction, with luggage scattered along the side of the road. Ukrainian officials, who reported that traffic had stopped for several hours on Monday night due to riots, were noted to be supplying food and water to homeless protesters at the start of the night. Despite calls from the Israeli government to avoid entering Ukraine, and despite Ukraine’s declaration that it would ban Israelis from entering in the coming weeks due to consaspectives about COVID-19, thousands of Jews led the Eastern European councheck to make the annual pilgrimage to Rabbi Nachman’s site in Bre slov’s grave in Uman.
