A Ukrainian rabbi received one of his country’s top honors for religious leaders. Moshe Reuven Azman, chief rabbi of Kyiv and a leader of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress, received the Order of Merit of the third grade according to a decree signed by Ukraine’s President Victor Yuschenko on Aug. 18 “for his prominent personal contribution to the development of spirituality, long-term religious labor and on the occasion of 18th anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence.”
