Due to high coronavirus levels in Israel and Ukraine, Ukraine will not permit the annual pilgrimage of 30,000 Hasidic Jews to Uman, Cherkasy

Due to high coronavirus levels in Israel and Ukraine, Ukraine will not permit the annual pilgrimage of 30,000 Hasidic Jews to Uman, Cherkasy. Normally, the pilgrimage would take place two months from now, in the days before the Sept. 18-20 Jewish New Year holiday. “In Uman, the [coronavirus] situation is under control,” Uman Mayor Oleksander Tsebriy writes on Facebook. “But the arrival of a large number of foreigners from different countries could cause a coronavirus outbreak in our town.”