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Wednesday, July 25

Thursday, July 26

Arrive in Kyiv
Check into hotel and tour some Jewish sites, including the former Jewish district of Podil, the Great Choral and Brodsky Synagogues, Golda Meir’s house and Museum of Sholom Aleichem

Friday-Saturday, July 27-28
(Candle lighting 8:49 pm, Shabbat ends 10:07 pm)

Tour Babi Yar, recite memorial prayers for the martyred
Travel to Rivne for Shabbat
On the way to Rivne, visit the synagogue of Reb Zushe of Hannopil and the synagogue of the Maggid of Meziritch in Hannopil
Shabbat day: a walking tour of Jewish Rivne

Sunday, July 29

Pay respects at the Shoah site on the outskirts of Rivne, where 21,000 Jews were executed on November 7-8, 1941
Travel to historic town of Ostroh
Say prayers at the graves of the great Shmuel Eliezer Ha-Levi Edels (Maharsha) and Rabbi Yakov-Yosef of Ostroh (Besht’s student).
See 17th century Great Maharsha Synagogue that is being restored
Visit historic Jewish cemetery.
Visit and say prayers at one of the town’s Holocaust mass murder sites
Continue to Brody, a city of prominent Jewish mystics and scholars, center of Galician Haskala, and Zionism, and home of the Austrian Jewish writer Joseph Roth.
Arrive at Lviv.

Monday-Tuesday, July 30-31

Tour Lviv, the capital of Eastern Galicia
Meet with activists who are working to restore dignity to the Jewish heritage here.
Visit the Space of Synagogues Memorial at the site of the ancient Golden Rose Synagogue that was destroyed by the Nazis
Visit Rohatyn, where two American activists are restoring the town’s rich Jewish heritage and taking care of the cemeteries (view itinerary here)

Wed, Aug 1

Drive back to Kyiv
Visit the city of Medzhibizh and the tomb and the synagogue of the great Rabbi Baal Shem Tov.
Meet with the director of the local Jewish Museum and see some of the unique artefacts he has preserved.
Time permitting, stop by Berdichev, home of the of the great R. Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev
Arrive in Kyiv. Overnight here.

Thursday August 2