With his long, salt-and-pepper beard, velvet kippah and peyot, Asher Joseph Cherkassky is more than a mere oddity amid the crucifix-bearing Ukrainians that make up his battalion.
He could even be described as a warrior in the wrong tribe.
Jewish Chronicle: Ukraine’s Chasid says Muslims, Jews fight Russia as one
Hassidic soldier Asher Joseph Cherkassky stands near a tank in eastern Ukraine.
