Project Kesher-trained leaders hosted Jewish holiday celebrations in 140+ locations throughout Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Belarus, Moldova, and Georgia in 2019, the 25th anniversary of the Global Women’s Passover Seders. Project Kesher-trained leaders held Rosh Hashanah celebrations in 40+ cities and reached 1000 people of different ages. PKR spearheaded a spiritual preparation campaign via social media “10 Days that Shook my Inner World” during the 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Topics included repentance, forgiveness, self-worth, and Jewish education. Using the internet as a platform for Jewish gathering, this campaign reached 3,000 women.

On Simchat Torah more than 1,000 people studied, danced, and sang with 35 PK-returned Torah Scrolls. In Kursk, Russia, the Jewish community celebrated a particularly meaningful holiday- their first Simchat Torah with their own PK Torah scroll. Julia, a longtime PKR leader, shared with us: “I came to PK through my mom 11 years ago, and now my daughter is a teen leader in our community. It is very moving to receive the Torah scroll for our community alongside my mom and my daughter from our PK community. Our community has been waiting a long time for a Torah of our own. Women brought the Torah and women are leading the community now.”