10 Friday, February 8, 1985
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
LOCAL NEWS
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
OF THE FOOT AND ANKLE
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FLY
sustained serious liver dam-
age. He is expected to be put on
trial soon for "disseminating
anti-Soviet agitation."
"In layman's terms," said
Jerry Rogers of the Detroit
Committee, "anti-Soviet agi-
tations means telling the
truth." Rogers and Alex Prut-
kov believe the Soviet officials
did not want Prutkov avail-
able to testify on behalf of
Mesh at the.upcoming trial.
The Prutkovs had been de-
nied permission to emigrate
despite the fact that his par-
ents, Arkady and Sima Prut-
kov, and his brother-in-law
and sister, David and Lud-
milla Sirota, came to Detroit
in 1978.
Alex was part of the Jewish
cultural movement, teaching
Hebrew to fellow Jews in Rus-
sia. The official reason that
they could not leave the
U.S.S.R. was that Alex had
served in the Soviet military
and "might" be aware of state
secrets.
The Berenfeld family has
been blocked through differ-
ent means. Benjamin's father,
Mark, was told they do not
have close relatives in Israel to
warrant emigration. Unoffi-
cially, Benjamin's
grandparents have withheld
permission for their daughter,
Benjamin's mother, to leave.
Mark Berenfeld is part of the
Moscow Scientific Seminar,
composed of refuseniks meet-
ing weekly in an effort to keep
current their scientific knowl-
edge. The group recently ap-
pealed to the European Physi-
cal Society to meet in Moscow
to focus attention on their
plight.
How does Lowell Friedman
react to the swirling intrigues
of the Soviet Union intruding
on this momentous day in his
life?
"Ilana was bat mitzvah in
Russia," he told The Jewish
News. "She should have a turn
here, to see how it feels." And
Lowell has not been sharing
all the attention this week —
on Monday he celebrated his
13th birthday at Hillel Day
School by being called up to
read the Torah.
Dr. Melvyn and Susan
Friedman, Lowell's parents,
are proud of Lowell's attitude.
"It is a mitzvah," says Susan.
"There is so little that we can
actually do for Soviet Jewry.
But for us, the Prutkovs are a
symbol. The more letters
that go to Russia, the better it
is. If the refuseniks don't get
the letters, the Russian gov-
ernment will. If not the gov-
ernment, then the KGB. At
least they will know that we
are watching."
After Cindy Friedman's bat
mitzvah at B'nai. Moshe in
November 1982, the first time
a bar or bat mitzvah was twin-
ned at B'nai Moshe with a
Russian youngster, the
Friedmans celebrated with a
trip to Israel. "Cindy was
asked by a rabbi about her bat
mitzvah," said Susan, "and
she got up and talked about
her twinning." The Friedmans
also telephoned the Israeli
aunt of Cindy's twin, "which
helped complete the triangle
for us. It really means some-
thing for us."
That meaning will carry
forward Saturday morning
when Ilana Prutkov of Odessa
and Oak Park joins Lowell
Friedman on the bimah. Cindy
Friedman will read a transla-
tion of liana's brief remarks in
Russian.
Ilana will describe how she
and her Jewish friend were
discriminated against in
school and called "killers" by
their classmates during dis-
cussions of the Lebanon War.
She will ask Jewish youth to