THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Reunited Soviet Jews to Celebrate Bar Mitzva
NEW YORK—Three gen-
erations of a Soviet Jewish
family arrived in the
United States Monday, in
time to attend the Bar Mit-
zva of their grandson and
nephew, the first such reli-
gious celebration these Rus-
THANK
YOU
Viv, Linda,
Neal, Gail,
Norman
and Jason
FOR EVERY
FATHER'S DAY
sian refugees have ever wit-
nessed.
HIAS, the world-wide Jew-
ish migration agency, spon-
sored the resettlement of
the nine-member Ritsman
family who range in age
from one year to 69 years.
The arrivals from the So-
viet Union include Hersh
and Lubov Ritsman and
their sons Anat.Oly and Izya.
Both young men are accom-
panied by their wives and
daughters, and Anatoly's
mother-in-law.
At the airport to greet the
family will be the elder Rit-
smans' two daughters,
Emma Feldman and Galina
Goizman. Mrs. Feldman's
son, Igor, 13-years-old and
a student at a Brooklyn ye-
shiva, will celebrate his
Bar Mitzva June 25. HIAS
accelerated the immigra-
tion of the Ritsman clan so
they could arrive in the
U.S. in time to share the
family's joy. Igor has not
seen his grandparents or
other relatives for more
than five years,
In January 1972, Emma
Feldman, her husband
Simon and two children
were the first refugee fam-
ily to enter the U.S. under
the "parole authority" in-
voked by former Attorney
General John Mitchell with
the recommendation of the
State Department and Con-
gressional committees. The
attorney general authorized
the use of parole processing
at that time to enable hun-
dreds of Soviet Jewish refu-
gees to enter this country.
Others helpful in achiev-
ing the use of parole in 1971
were Sen. Edward M. Ken-
nedy and Congressmen
Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Ed-
ward Koch, Emanuel Geller
and Joshua Eilberg.
The Feldmans were taken
to Washington, D.C., to per-
sonally express their appre-
ciation. Special ceremonies
were held at the Depart-
ment of Justice where Fel-
dman, who spoke no Eng-
lish at the time, offered
thanks on behalf of his fam-
ily through an interpreter.
Feldman refused all
offers of assistance upon ar-
riving in New York and
found employment a week
after coming here. He is
now the owner of his own
taxi cab.
The Goizmans entered
the U.S., also as parolees, a
year later. Both families
now reside in Brooklyn.
The emigration of the Rit-
sman family was made pos-
sible by letters of invitation
sent to them by their rela-
tives in the U.S. with the
aid of HIAS.
Israeli, Russian
Youths Celebrate
Joint Bar Mitzva
"Good noshing
starts at ASP"
You heard right. At A& P, we've got all
sorts of nosherai. And all you could want
for a good Jewish meal. Breakfast, lunch,
brunch, dinner. In fact, we have more than
450 Ann Page and A& P products Certified
© Kosher. Not to mention all the other
brands of kosher food that we carry.
So come in for treats like bagels and
blintzes, cream cheese and lox, sour
cream and borscht, gefilte fish, salami
and pickles—and all the other good things
your family enjoys.
If you don't see what you want, speak to
the manager. If he doesn't have it, he'll try
to get it.
At ABP, we care for our kosher
customers.
JERUSALEM (JTA )-
Baruch Sand and Levi Rois-
man celebrated their Bnai
Mitzva last week.
Baruch's ceremony was
held at the Western Wall.
Levi marked his coming of
age in Novosibirsk in the So-
viety Union. The Roisman
family has been trying to
leave for Israel for the past
five years but was repeat-
edly denied exit visas by
the Soviet authorities.
Levi's elderly . grand-
mother was the only mem-
ber of the family finally per-
mitted to leave. She attend-
ed Baruch's Bar Mitzva. It
was the first "twin" Bar
Mitzva in which an Israeli
youngster and one in the
USSR performed the rites
on the same day.
There will be more, ac-
cording to Ruth Bar-On,
head of the information de-
partment of the Israel Pub-
lic Council for Soviet
Jewry. She said the idea is
to strengthen ties between
Israelis and Jews in the So-
viet Union.
B-G Strike Over
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Civil-
ian flight controllers were
back on the job at Ben-Gu-
rion Airport and other air-
ports in Israel beginning at
midnight Monday night, con-
ceding, in effect, that their
tactics of strikes and work
slowdowns to win a labor
dispute were a failure. For
the past three weeks, the
control towers all over Is-
rael were manned by mili-
tary personnel.
Friday, June 17, 1977 21
THE
MEMORIAL CENTER COMMITTEE
and
SHAARIT HAPLAYTAH
invite the entire
Jewish Community to Join Us
This Sunday, June 19,1977, 12 noon
In The Historic
Ground Breaking Ceremonies
of the
MEMORIAL CENTER
Modeled After Yad Vashem in Israel
Inlemory of our
SIX MILLION JEWISH MARTYRS
Murdered by Nazi Germany
MR. ELI ZBOROWSKI
Highly Respected Leader
in the World Jewish Community
Will Be the Guest Speaker
ELI MOROWSIEI
Memorial Center Committee in Formation
NATHAN P. ROSSEN
Sponsor and Honorary Chairman
Irving Altus
Louis Apfeiblat
Rabbi Milton Arm
Helen Balberman
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Howard Binkow
Irwin Jay Deutch
Henry Dorfman
Arnold Einhorn
Fred Ferber
Sally Fields
Beatrice Feigelman
Salman Grand
Leon Gutman
Menasha Haar
Leon Halpern
Alan Jay Kaufman
Sol Kleinman
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The Ground Breaking Ceremonies
Will Take Place at the
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13 Mile and Farmington Rd.
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Steve Oliwek
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