At the end of December Kostanay Hesed organized meeting of the young members of the Jewish community with the participants II of republican forum of the Jewish youth, past recently in Almaty. On this meeting came those guys, which already not for the first year participate in life and activities of the community: Xenia Slozhenikina, Anna Fisenko, Anastasia Palant, Vadim Chashkov, Jaroslava Kim, Natalie Karagodina, Ekaterina Perekusihina, Eugenie Aronovitch, and also those young people, which quite recently became the members of a community, but already actively take part in holidays and other activities of the community: Vladimir Aleksanin, Nikita Bogorosh, Ocsana Titunina, Xenia Komarovskaya.

One of the visitors at this meeting was Inna Lukmanova, which constantly helps our artists in preparation of vocal numbers - with her help many soundtracks for performance of our young vocalists are recorded.

This meeting had passed in informal conditions, where to everyone the place was found, and nobody maintained aloofness. Due to the fact that the participants of meeting were familiar practically from the childhood, at the table was not boring - someone shared with news, exchanged new impressions, and those guys, who were not familiar, easily found common ground with old-timers of the community.

Meeting was opened by Vladimir Lyakhovetsky, he made small digression in a history of the Jewish people, its tradition; congratulated the gathered on Chanukah and Independence Day of Kazakhstan, wished to everyone light days and successes in all businesses.

The director of Hesed Peter Rubinstein thanked everyone who came on the meeting for their activity, optimism and readiness at any moment to take part in activities of the community. And also he told that right due to activity of youth of Kostanay Jewish community it continues to exist and unites everyone, for whom is not indifferent destiny of all Jews.

The chief of JCC Eugenia Parkhomenko acquainted the gathered youth with the participants of II Republican forum of the Jewish youth, past at the end of November in Almaty: Vladimir Aleksanin, Vadim Chashkov and Xenia Slozhenikina. The guys shared impressions from trip, told about its results. Big plus of a forum was that on it arrived the interested young people, which play not last role in their communities. The participants of the forum shared emotions from past psychological trainings, which though were conducted and not for the first time, but bore: allowed getting acquainted closer with youth from all over the republic that, in opinion of the guys, became the large step in closer relations of the Jewish youth of Kazakhstan.

With the large warmness the youth recollected Shabbat, with which the first day of forum was finished. The guys recollected and performed those songs, with which welcomed youth of other cities. It is necessary to note, that any youth meeting does not manage without performance of songs in Hebrew and songs of the Jewish authors. And this time after performance of vocalists everybody in chorus began to sing favourite songs. There sounded "Yerushalaim", "Evenu Shalom aleikhem ", "Lekha dodi", "Hava Nagila" and many others. Inna Lukmanova helped guys - she accompanied on a piano, and Nikita Bogorosh, which masterly accompanied on a piano and guitar. The romances under a guitar in performance of Eugenia Logvinenko, songs from films, songs from repertoire of bards also sounded. One of songs amicably executed during this improvised concert, became a song " What a wonderful, that we all together gathered here ". It became an original hymn of past meeting.

At the end of evening Peter Rubinstein once again congratulated everybody and handed over each participant of youth meeting small gifts.

Eugenia Parkhomenko, Eugenia Logvinenko