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Friday, September 28, 1984
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to all
our friends
and relatives
SABRA TRAVEL
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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to
all
our friends
and relatives
HARRY & ANN SCHWARTZ
May the coming
May the coming
year be filled
year be filled
with health and
with health and
happiness for
happiness for
all our family
all my family
and friends
Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
health and happiness
SALLY & NORTON FUSTY & FAMILY
Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
health and happiness
MR. & MRS. ELI FRIEDMAN
WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA
Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
health and happiness
DR. & MRS. JOEL I. HAMBURGER & FAMILY
To All Our
Relatives
and Friends,
Our wish for a
year filled with
happiness,
health and prosperity
and friends
ESTHER & ISAAC
KURTZ
EMMA LAZAROFF SCHAVER
May the coming
May the coming
year be filled
year be filled
with health and
with health and
happiness for
happiness for
all our family
all our family
and friends
and friends
ALYCE & MAURY LEVIN
DR. & MRS. SIDNEY 0.
SIEGAN & FAMILY
May the coming
May the coming
year be filled
year be filled
with health and
with health and
happiness for
happiness for
all our family
all our family
and friends
and friends
HILDA & MARVIN
SHLAIN & FAMILY
SHIRLEY & HARRY
TANKSLEY
CELIA & NATHAN GOLDIN
PRiiKEEREI
May the New Year Bring
To All Our Friends
and Family
Health,
Joy, Prosperity
and Everything
Good in Life
MARVIN & ROCHELLE BROOKS
& JEFFREY
Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
health and happiness
DR. SAMUEL & JANET BLONDY
COCONUT CREEK, FLORIDA
Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
health and happiness
Wishing all our farrrily and
friends a year of
health and happiness
HARRY & LILLIAN KOMER
NEWS
Seek freedom
BY LESLIE KLINEMAN
Jerusalem — The small apart-
ment is filled with family and
friends. But some people are mis-
sing, an absence felt deeply by
everyone here. They are waiting
for Yaakov Rachlenko and his
family and they have been wait-
ing for 11 years.
The Rachlenko family is also
waiting — in Moscow. The Soviet
Anti-Zionist Committee insists
that everyone who wants to go to
Israel has already gone. But
Yaakov and many, many others
are still applying for visas, hoping
to be among the lucky ones who
will be granted permission to
leave.
Yaakov supports his wife and
three-year-old daughter with
part-time jobs as a watchman and
plumber. Pursuit of his trade as
an electrical engineer is denied
him by Soviet authorities because
of his desire to leave for Israel.
Twelve years ago, Yaakov, his
mother, Vinya Bergena, and sis-
ter, Mira, applied to make aliyah
to Israel. Vinya's father had been
a Habbadnik, a Lubavitcher
Hasid, and the family knew about
its religious heritage, celebrated
holidays and tried to keep the
flame of Judaism alive in their
lives despite the hostile environ-
ment. Vinya and her daughter
Mira were granted visas, but
Yaakov's application was re-
jected.
Yaakov has still not been
allowed to emigrate. He married
and had a daughter and their exit
visa applications remain pending
too. He participated in demon-
strations, was arrested several
times and spent many months in
prison for "hooliganism." He has
lived each day knowing his family
was being watched and his tele-
phone was tapped.
Mira married another Soviet
immigrant, Vladimir Weissbin,
and today they have three daugh-
ters. All of them, and Yaakov's
mother Vinya, are still waiting
for the rest of their family to be
freed.
The Soviet government con-
tinues to maintain that every Jew
who wants to leave for Israel is
gone, that millions of other Jews
in the Soviet Union want to re-
main. But Yaakov keeps apply-
ing. And everyone is still waiting.
Still hoping. Still trying.
UJA Press Service
Israelis strong
on education
Jerusalem — Like many other
schools around the world, the
school day begins quietly with
morning prayers, followed by the
clamor of bright, curious children
moving to their classroom. Dur-
ing recess, they spill out into the
hallways, racing for the playg-
round. Outside, the children,
some with kipot (skullcaps) and
others without, play together.
This is the Frankel School in
Jerusalem's French Hill
neighborhood, a project made
possible by Detroiters Sam and
Jean Frankel.
The school itself is unusual for
Israel, where the state offers two