(Jewish Group) 'Jewish soup' is keeping soldiers and refugees warm at the Romanian-Ukrainian border
The first thing Ukrainian refugees see when they enter Romania through the border crossing of Siret is a tent serving up what has come to be known locally as “Jewish soup.”
The tent is operated by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or the JDC, and the soup is a local version of a bean-and-vegetable borscht that is being portioned out day and night to the haggard Ukrainians flowing out of their war-torn country.
“I’ve already made 31 big pots like these,” Tuvia Zechter, the retired cook who runs the improvised kitchen near the border, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The JDC is one of many charity groups that have set up shop on a half-kilometer stretch of road to serve what has become an incessant flow of displaced women and children.
“Everyone likes our food and they come to eat here from all over the place,” Zechter added, referring to the Romanian volunteers, soldiers, firefighters and policemen working to receive the refugees.
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