My visit to Bucharest included a stop at Tikva Children’s Home, an orphanage, school and vocational training network for Ukrainian Jewish children who were forced to flee Odesa after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But there is a difference between strategic analysis and asking vulnerable strangers to justify the geography of their existence. The Institute for Jewish Policy Research’s country data, drawing on Sergio DellaPergola’s 2024 world Jewish population estimates, underscores how varied and fragile these communities are. If Jewish peoplehood means anything, it cannot mean caring only for Jews whose zip codes flatter our ideology. There is much work to be done, and it’s up to the larger Jewish world to do it.