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 Gustav Berenholz 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 Kenneth Konop Harry Laker Jack Lipton Irving Nusbaum The Ground Breaking Ceremonies Will Take Place at the N. W. Corner of 13 Mile and Farmington Rd. Farmington Hills, Mich. Steve Oliwek Sonia Popowski Nathan Potash Rabbi Charles Rosenzweig Rabbi Irving Schnipper Simon Schwarzberg Jerry Silbert Jack Waksberg Sol Waldman Martin S. Water Abrahm Weberman Don't Miss This Historic Occasion The First Memorial Center of its Kind on the American Continent