Our UMBC Hillel Goes to Ukraine participants arrived together just a few minutes late to Kiev’s Borispol’s airport around noon today. Although there was a slight delay in the airport, by the time our students sailed through customs and headed into town for a tour of the city. After seeing some churches (Ukraine was the locus of the proliferation of Orthodox Christianity among the Slavs late in the 10th Century), they visited Kiev Hillel and met the director of Kiev Hillel.

They settled into the Jewish Home, their home in Ukraine these first three nights of the trip. The Jewish Home hosts visitors to the Jewish community and some locals as well. Our students are joined at the Jewish Home by a group of Hillel students from Chicago as well (who will remain in Kiev, Chicago’s sister city), so they will get to some activities together with their local host in Kiev.
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