Protecting Ukraine's Jews

The Jerusalem Post featured a story about how the Jewish community in the Ukraine has raised eight volunteers to provide for collective defense. The "courageous eight" do not fly fighter planes or pilot attack helicopters. They do not have tanks or armored cars. The best they can do now is wield baseball bats that a foreign donor bought them. They are hoping a benefactor might provide bullet proof vests. In a situation so unstable in a region where Jews have often been singled out as targets, the best situation might be to leave at least temporarily until ethnic Ukrainians and ethnic Russians sort it out. It is easier to come back from Tel Aviv than it is to return from the grave. The Eastern Ukraine is not particularly safe now for anyone, but it is especially perilous for the Jews.