A menorah’s light thought to be lost forever is shining in Mariupol, Ukraine throughout Chanukah thanks to the non-Jewish landlord of the city’s only synagogue.

Russian forces destroyed almost all of this southern city when taking it over in the early months of their now ten-months’ long invasion.

Among the myriad buildings bombed and set on fire was the one that Rabbi Mendel Cohen, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Mariupol, rented in the center of town and used as a synagogue and community center for some 1,500 local Jews.

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