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She collects small cash
donations for a bank ac-
count she started for the
Lubavitch Foundation be-
cause, she says, the
Lubavitch are "saving the
youth."
of Rachel
Aware
Kurtzman's devotion to
Chabad Lubavitch, her
friends established a char-
ity project for the founda-
tion on her 90th birthday.
Now, on her 95th, she is re-
Rachel Kurtzman
turning the favor.
Her devotion to Chabad end to the Kurtzman
Lubavitch is not of recent famiy's comfortable life.
vintage. The daughter of
With her husband and
Chasidic parents, Mrs. daughter, Mrs. Kurtzman
Kurtzman previously trekked through forests and
helped raise thousands of sloshed through brooks to
dollars for a clinic in Kfar get out of the country. She
Chabad in Israel. But fear- said her knowledge of Uk-
ing the sin of hubris, Mrs. rainian also helped the fam-
Kurtzman will admonish, ily to safety. All told, it took
"But don't make it look like them 21/2 years to get to the
I'm bragging."
U.S.
Far from being a brag-
Undaunted by persecu-
gart, Mrs. Kurtzman acts tion in her homeland, she
like a proud mother when became actively involed in
she speaks of the Chabad the Jewish life of Detroit,
Lubavitch's service to where she, her husband and
youth.
daughter emigrated 60
"If Lubavitch didn't exist, years ago.
it would have to be created."
She held membership in
She doesn't seek glory or Pioneer Women/Naamat, is
publicity, and was ap- one of the first three Israel
prehensive about being Bonds Women of Valor
interviewed. She gets -her Award winners in Detroit,
reward from helping others. and has affiliated herself as
"It means a lot if you're a life member of Jewish Na-*
doing something for some- tional Fund and the Jewish
one else, not for you."
Home for Aged Auxiliary.
She fondly recalls her She also has worked on be-
own youth in her native half of Bar-Ilan University.
Russian Poland. There, her
The transition from her
father, a paramedic ("more Russian lifestyle to life in
than a nurse, less than a America was not easy. It
doctor") taught Torah to her took her a couple of years to
and brother. In addition, become acclimated, she
she studied Russian, says.
French, German and Latin.
Her husband, the late
She was graduated from Morris, was bitter. Lovingly
the "gymnasium" (high she recalls, "he was a capa-
school) and dreamed about ble, educated man. He
going into medicine, but, wanted to buy a dictionary.
she says, at that time Jews He didn't want to hear an-
were banned from the Rus- other word (of Russian)."
sian medical schools. When
Daughter Marjory had an
she came to the U.S. 60 easier time adjusting to her
years ago, she carried the new environment. About 7
dream with her, but eco- when they arrived, Marjory
nomics, motherhood and the was enrolled in school and
acculturation process pre- was graduated at 15 from
cluded the pursuit of a med- high school. She received
ical career.
her college degree at 19.
Mrs. Kurtzman becomes What has kept Rachel
emotional when she recalls Kurtzman going for 95
her life in Russia and her years? "I still demand a lot
escape with her husband for myself ... I believe in
and then young daughter to God, since he was able to
the U.S. Several times dur- save me from that
ing the conversation, she'll holocaust.
stop to catch a breath, to re- i With me life is a passion,
gain her composure.
an obsession. I like this ob-
"It was tragic for our session."
people to come to the U.S.,"
she recalls. "We were com-
fortable. We went from light Center staffers
to darkness. These people attend seminar
are not your people. We .
were culturally uprooted."
Bruce Tabashneck, direc-
In Russia, she and her for of singles activities and
husband had a dry goods family education at the
store. Their daughter; Mar- Jewish Community Center,
jory, now a social worker, and Dan Green, physical
was born in Russia, and education program assis-
Mrs. Kurtzman dreamed of tant, will attend an Israel
'sending her to Paris to study seminar next month
study languages. But the for Jewish center rofes-
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