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34 Friday, April 10, 1981
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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New Emigres Observe Campaign Phonogift
Students from the Jewish
Community Center English
language program — all re-
cent immigrants to this
country — had the opportu-
nity on March 25 to learn
how some of the money is
raised for the agencies that
benefit them.
The immigrants were
brought by bus to the
United Hebrew Schools,
where they watched volun-
teers make telephone calls
during the Jewish Welfare
Federation Women's Di-
vision Phonogift telethon.
The annual solicitation
effort, held March 22-29,
raised $78,500 for the Allied
Jewish Campaign-Israel
Emergency Fund, an in-
crease of $14,350 or 21 per-
cent over the 1980 total for
Phonogift. Contributions to
Campaign provide partial
support -of Federation's
member social service
agencies.
Resettlement Service,
Jewish Community Cen-
ter and Jewish Voca-
tional Service are just
three of the social service
agencies that can help
immigrants adjust to
American life in the met-
ropolitan Detroit area.
-Marcia Fishman, director
of the Center's English lan-
guage department, said the
English language group is
brought to Phonogift each
year.
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"It's important to show
them how we get the money
that helped them," said
Melba Winer, chairman of
the English language de-
partment volunteers. Prev-
iously, she said, they may
not have had the recogni-
tion that "there are people
on the phone and ringing
doorbells to raise those
funds:"
Speaking through Rus-
sian interpreter Rochelle
Sable (the group was com-
prised primarily of Soviet
Jews), Telethon Chairman
Janice Schwarti discussed
the goals of Campaign and
Women's Division's role in
achieving them. Following
refreshments, the visitors
were able to informally ob-
serve the volunteers at
work and ask questions.
Mrs. Winer said in-
structors at the Center
would later provide an
in-depth explanation of
what the group had seen
at Phonogift and distrib-
ute brochures that de-
scribe the local agencies
and the workings of
Campaign.
According to Mrs.
Schwartz, Soviet Jews who
have observed Phonogift in
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Phonogift chairman
Janice Schwartz, at left,
thanks recent Soviet im-
migrant Dina Fayerman
for her spontaneous con-
tribution to the Allied
Jewish Campaign.
action previously have been
prompted to become more
active in Campaign solicita-
tion, particularly through
the Women's Division. As
an example, she cited vol-
unteer Celia Sosensky, a
Soviet Jewish immigrant
who got involved with
Campaign four years ago
doing clerical work. Today,
she solicits about 60 Rus-
sian women for their
pledges to Campaign, con-
versing in their native
tongue. Women's Division
Motor Corps Chairman
Harriet Rich works with
Mrs. Sosensky in personally
visiting the Russians'
homes to pick up their con-
tributions.
Another Soviet-Jewish
group — 12-15 women who
are fairly fluent in English
— met March 22 at
Phonogift to see a slide show
about social service agen-
cies presented by Women's
Division Welcome Wagon
leadership. Six of the
`women subsequently joined
the Women's Division
Career Women's group, sig-
nifying their desire to be-
come an active part of the
Detroit Jewish community,
said Mrs. Schwartz.
Two of the Soviet Jews
visiting for the first time
March 22 presented Mrs.
Schwartz with on-the-
spot cash gifts. Mrs.
Schwartz said she was
quite impressed. "Their
giving means,a lot," she
said. It shows they want
to make a contribution to
this community."
Added Mrs. Winer, "Their
contribution comes out of
their food money, their liv-
ing money. That's really
sharing."
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Agencies Aid Ethiopian Refugees
Two young Ethiopian
Moslems were part of the
group that came to observe
the Women's Division
Phonogift telethon for the
Allied Jewish Campaign-
Israel Emergency Fund at
the United Hebrew Schools.
Suleiman Abad, 21, and
Mandi Mohammed, 19, are
studying English at the
Jewish Community Center
(along with Ali Beshir
Mohammed, 22, and Ab-
dourham Youssouf Ab-
doulahi, 19, who were un-
able to join their class at
Phonogift March 25): the
four men arrived in Detroit
on March 13, after spending
several bleak years in refu-
gee camps in Djibouti,
across the border from
Ethiopia.
The Ethiopians' native
land has gone through four
insurrectionist wars since
1977. Abad said he had to
flee the country . in fear of
losing his life.
"I travelled 360 miles
on foot for 15 days with
my friend" before reach-
ing the Djibouti border,
he said. He estimated that
60,000 Ethiopians are liv-
ing now in the Djibouti
border, he said. He esti-
mated that 60,000 Ethio-
pians are living now in
the Djibouti concentra-
tion camps. Somalia has
received an estimated 1.5
million Ethiopian refu-
gees, more than any other
country in the world.
The Ethiopians must stay
in the camps until they are
sponsored for resettlement
by other nations. Abad said
those who leave are going to
the United States, Canada,
Egypt and, primrily, to
Saudi Arabia.
Faced with unprece-
dented numbers of persons
to assist, the U.S. govern-
ment asked Jewish, Protes-
tant and Catholic social
service agencies to share in
resettling the newcomers. A
special Refugee Act was
passed in March 1980 as a
response to this situation. It
made federal funds avail-
able to private communal
agencies, to help defrary
much of the cost of reset-
tling refugees who were
primarily natives of Indo-
China.
In the case of the Ethio-
pians, and a recently-
arrived family from Af-
ghanistan, special funds to
Detroit's Resettlement
Service have come out of a
federal block grant given
annually to the Council of
Jewish Federations for the
purpose of resettling Soviet
and other refugees from
Soviet-dominated nations,
said Samuel Lerner, execu-
tive director of Resettle-
ment Service.
During the first year of
the grant, beginning in
October 1978, Federa-
tions throughout the
country received a total
of $16 million to aid the
substantial number of
Soviet Jewish refugees
permitted to come here.
By 1980, when a bloc
grant of $36 million was
appropriated, the antici-
pated number of Soviet
Jewish immigrants to
this country did not ar-
rive. Alicia Karr, reset-
tlement supervisor at Re-
settlement Service, said
327 Soviet Jews came to
the Detroit area during
1980, as compared to 490
in 1979.
The Hebrew Immigrant
Aid Society (HIAS) was
asked by the U.S. State De-
partment to find local agen-
cies that might help in re-
settling some of. the refu-
Observing AJC-IEF
volunteer Estela Burman
make a solicitation are
Ethiopian Moslem refu-
gees Suleiman Abad,
standing, and Mandi
Mohammed.
gees in greatest need. The
Resettlement Service in De-
troit agreed to sponsor the
four young Ethiopians, who
are being sponsored in part
by the bloc grant.
Today, with the assis-
tance of Federation's
member agencies, the four
are adjusting to a very
different life from the one
they left behind. Resettle-
ment Service located hous-
ing for them in the Eigh
Mile and Lahser section of-
Detroit. They attend
English language class at
the Center (although they
all spoke English to a vary-
ing degree when they ar-
rived) and will soon begin
career counselling at the
Jewish Vocational Service.
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Cooperation Seen
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — The
newspaper Maariv reports
that an upsurge in U.S.-
Israeli scientific coopera-
tion is expected following
the recent U.S. visit of Is-
raeli Foreign -Minister Yit-
zhak Shamir.
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