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Zhezkazgan 27.03.2005
On March 27 members of city Jewish community and nearby populated areas held a constituent meeting, that became a first step towards the creation of the Jewish cultural center. Meeting participants included president of "Mitsva" Association of Jewish National Organizations of Kazakhstan Aleksandr Baron, Karaganda Hesed director Bella Kamenetskaya, "Hesed on Whells" service leader Vladimir Volodarskiy(Karaganda). Deputy Akim of Zhezkazgan region Stanislav Filippovitch expressed support to the Jewish community initiative on behalf of city authorities. All in all 45 community members took part in the meeting.
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In the course of that meeting its participants discussed questions, connected with work of Jewish organizations of Kazakhstan and problems of modern Jewish society. "Mitsva" president thanked people, contributed to the renewal of Zhezkazgan Jewish community.
"History teaches us that major initiatives, brought up artificially, are to dye very soon", Aleksandr Baron turned to the meeting participants. "The first step is more valuable if you make it by yourself, and exactly you felt necessity in uniting for
 renewing the community".
For more detailed discussion of aims and tasks setting by the community
before the Jewish cultural center through open voting, we created the Jewish
Cultural Center Board. The Board included respectable, act ive, hardworking people - Alla
Popova (Board chairman), Adelai a Kovaleva, Sergey Abuladze, Ekaterina Polikarpova.
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The meeting ended in a big holiday concert. For the first time Zhezkazgan Jewish community celebrated Purim as an independent member of Kazakhstani Jewish community. Having jointed to elderly generation, children organized a wonderful merry and bright Purimshpil. There was lots of fun, laugh, music, dances and sounds of rattles. Spectaculars loudly applauded to an amateur group.
Galina Goldberg
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