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Confronting The Old Myth Of The Shiksa
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Local Sports Legend Morrie Moorawnick
FEBRUARY 8, 1985
SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY
Words Halting
Saudi Arms?
A letter from 62 U.S.
Senators may have
influenced Reagan's
\ deferral on arms for
the Saudis.
Sens. Alan Dixon (D-Ill.) and Al-
fonse D'Amato (R-NY) initiated the
letter. Both of Michigan's Democratic
Senators, Carl Levin and Donald
Riegle, signed the letter, according to
Levin press aide Phil Shandler.
A spokesman for Sen. Dixon said
the letter, submitted on Jan. 29, "led
the Administration to announce it was
delaying its proposed new arms sales
to Saudi Arabia."
Richard Murphy, Assistant Secre-
tary of State for Near Eastern and
South Asian Affairs, told a House sub-
committee last week that the Ad-
ministration was deferring all new
Washington (JTA) — A letter to
President Reagan signed by 62 Sena-
I tors opposing imminent arms sales to
Saudi Arabia was being credited by at
least one of the Senators Wednesday
I\ for the Administration's decision to
defer any new arms sales to the Middle
East.
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Soviet Proxy
BY ALAN HITSKY
R ichard Snyder
News Editor
Lowell Friedman and liana Prutkov.
An empty chair on the bimah. A
photograph - of a Soviet Jewish youth
denied the religiou's freedom of celeb-
rating his bar mitzvah.
The scene has been repeated fre-
quently in Detroit synagogues the last
few years. But on Saturday at Cong.
B'nai Moshe, 13-year-old Soviet Jew
Benjamin Berenfeld, twinning his bar
mitzvah in absentia with Lowell
Friedman of West Bloomfield, will
have a proxy in attendance.
She is Ilana Prutkov of Odessa.
Ilana arrived in Detroit six weeks ago,
following an 11-year effort by her fam-
ily to emigrate. The Prutkovs' effort
was buoyed by letters from Detroit, in-
.
cluding those of Rachel Zager and An-
neke Adler of Cong. B'nai David. The
girls twinned their bat mitzvah with
Ilana last June and wrote monthly let-
ters to their Russian friend. Only three
of Ilana's replies made it past the
Soviet postal gauntlet to Detroit.
With Ilana participating in Low-
ell's bar mitzvah, and Rachel and An-
neke attending to meet their pen pal,
Saturday promises to be a bittersweet
day as the youngsters celebrate, tem-
pered with the knowledge that Low-
ell's family has not been able to com-
municate with Benjamin. The Fried-
man's, using Ilana's father as an in-
terpreter, tried to call the Berenfeld
family in Moscow on Thursday.
The Prutkovs of Odessa and the
Berenfelds of Moscow have shared a
similar fate. Denied permission to
emigrate since 1972, the Prutkovs
may have been allowed out of the
Soviet Union because of the misfor-
tune of another Jew.
Ilana's father, Alex, is a friend of
Yaacov Mesh, a leading refusenik in
the Jewish cultural movement in the
Soviet Union. According to Bev Yost of
the Detroit Soviet Jewry Committee of
the Jewish Community Council, Mesh
was beaten so badly last fall that he
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When the last Israeli soldier
pulls out of Lebanon there won't
be a hut, a tin can or an orange
peel left; nothing, unless
you count the almost palpable
fear of a massacre.
BY JERRY CHESLOW
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