Vadim Rabinovich and Moshe Reuven Asman

Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress Vadim Rabinovich, left, speaks with the Head Rabbis of the Brodskyis Central Kyiv’s Synagogue Moshe-Reuven Asman, who holds the presidential greeting in his hands at the entrance to the Synagogue on the day of its opening, on Wednesday, March 22, 2000. The Synagogue was built on the money allotted by sugar manufacturers Brodskis and sanctified a hundred years ago. The Synagogue was closed in 1926. The reconstruction of the largest in Ukraine synagogue started in 1997. The reconstruction was initiated by the all-Ukrainian Jewish Congress. Photo by Dmitryi Gavrish/ UNIAN