52 Friday, May 1, 1981

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

JWF Acculturation Committee Aiding Soviet Jews

tion, out of a direct grant
from the United Jewish
Charities.
Hertzberg said the
Jewish Community Center
has assumed the initiative
on behalf of the committee
for developing RusSian ac-
culturation programming.
Under Executive Director
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Dr. Morton Plotnick, the
Center has had years of ex-
perience in working with
immigrants, particularly
through the English lan-
guage program. Russian-
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the Center staff serves as
the liaison for the commit-
tee as well as implementing
the Center's own program of
Russian acculturation.
"She works with agencies
and organizations in follow-
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Dr. Berton arranged a
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Seder, sponsored by the
Jewish Center, April 19 at
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Over a year ago, Jewish
Welfare Federation
President George M. Zeltzer
called upon Stuart E.
Hertzberg, active member
of the Federation Board of
Governors and former
president of the Jewish
Vocational Service and
Community Workshop, to
organize a committee that
would encourage Jewish
organizations to arrange
programs for the growing
number of Soviet Jews set-
tling here.
Hertzberg said the proj-
ect's purposes were to better
acquaint the newcomers
with their Jewish heritage,
and to make them aware of
the many religious and sec-
ular organizations they
could join to become in-
volved in Jewish communal
life.
The Russian Accultura-
tion Committee got under-
way in winter 1980. It was
comprised of representa-
tives from several of Feder-
ation's member agencies,
such as the United Hebrew
Schools and the Jewish
Community Council, and
communal organizations,
such as the Synagogue
Council of Detroit, the Rab-
binical Commission and
Bnai Brith.
Funding for the commit-
tee is provided by Federa-

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GODIVA

CHOCOLATES

post-college age through
their mid-30s. Birmingham
Temple plans to hold an
open house for the Soviet
Jews on May 26.
Hertzberg said a special
moment for members of the
Russian Acculturation
Committee and the
Synagogue Council was se-
eing the "overflow crowd" of
Soviet Jews who attended
Rosh Hashana services last
year at Temple Emanu-El.
Rabbi Lane B. Steinger
helped arrange the event.
Leading the congregants
was Russian-speaking
Rabbi Victor Rashkovsky of
Cincinnati. Committee
members were told that
when he gave his moving
sermon about the problems
of Jews in Russia, "there
wasn't a dry eye in the
house." 'The committee
plans to bring the rabbi to
Detroit for the services
again this year.
Dr. Berton said the com-
mittee also is proud that, for
the first time, a Russian
immigrant has been invited
to participate in the candle-
lighting ceremony at Cong.
Bnai David commemorat-

Miss Posner
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i• HAIR REMOVED FOREVER

Ten-year-old Russian immigrant Toli Shabasho
asks the Four Questions during a Russian-language
Passover Seder at the Morris Branch of the Jewish
Community Center. Nikolai Klemptner, left, assisted
Sam Kaplan, right, in leading the Seder, which was
sponsored by the Russian Acculturation Committee.

ing Yom Hashoa (Holocaust
Remembrance Day) at 1
p.m. on Sunday, May 3.
A vehicle for educating
the Soviet Jews is
"Fonarik," a monthly
Russian-language news-
paper produced at the
Jewish Center. Dr. Berton
said the name of the news-
paper means "Little Lan-
tern — because it sheds a
little light on American
life." "Fonarik" contains ar-
ticles on Jewish and secular
topics by area English-
speaking writers. Tatiana
Polsky, a Soviet Jew who
worked briefly on the Soviet
newspaper "Pravda," trans-
lates the articles into Rus-
sian for the newspaper.
Dr. Berton said many
Soviet Jews have told her
they are enjoying the accul-

turation committee's pro-
grams, particularly those
having to do with Jewish
heritage: "For the first time,
they know they have a
4,000-year history."
She said for many of
them, watching the recent
ABC-TV mini-series
"Masada" gave them a "feel-
ing of belonging," and added
that a group of Soviet Jews
are proudly looking forward
to joining the Jewish com-
munity's march in the May
10 Israel Independence Day
Parade in Southfield.

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Dr. and Mrs. Leonard
Posner of Southfield an-
nounce the engagement of
their daughter, Debora Ann
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Akiva Friends
Luncheon Set

Friends of Akiva will hold
their annual luncheon noon
May 13 in the school build-
ing, 27700 Southfield, Lat-
hrup Village.
Co-founders Mrs. Sadye
Forman and Mrs. Marilyn
Schlussel will be honored.
For reservations, call An-
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Wins Fellowship

Julianne Silverstein,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
O.D. Silverstein, has been
selected as the graduate ex-
change student for 1981-
1982 at the Hebrew Univer-
sity on a University of
Michigan graduate fellow-
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