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youth Shares Bar Mitzvah
Todd Krieger, son of Mr. and
vIrs. Richard (Linda) Krieger of
)ak Park, will twin his bar
nitzvah at 9 a.m. Saturday with
Avi Goldshtein of Russia.
Avi's father, Isai, left his job
a the Mendeleyev Metrological
nstitute in Tbilisi prior to
applying for an exit visa to Is-
•ael in 1971. A physicist who
folds the title of Kandidat of
Technical Sciences, Goldshtein
/vas refused permission to emi-
rate one year later on grounds
;hat his former position at the
institute gave him access to al-
leged "state secrets."
Since that time, Avi's father
has been unable to work in his
:liosen field, and is periodically
threatened with charges of
"parasitism."
In December 1983, President
Reagan — speaking at a
Chanukah celebration near
Washington, D.C. — cited Avi
and his family as examples of
Soviet Jews who are persecuted
for their desire to emigrate to
Israel. Avi and his family were
visited eight months later by
Sen. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland
and Howard Metzenbaum of
Ohio.
The Goldshtein family is
active among the Georgian re-
fusenik community; thus, they
have repeatedly been harassed
by the KGB. Prior to the unoffi-
cial Jewish Cultural Symposium
in December 1976, the Goldsh-
teins' apartment was ransacked,
and many letters and photo-
graphs were confiscated. Avi's
father was threatened with evic-
tion from his home. Their tele-
phone service is intermittently
disrupted and their mail confis-
cated.
Out of desperation, Avi's
mother, Elizaveta, divorced her
husband in September 1980 in
the hope that she and Avi would
be permitted to emigrate to Is-
rael. Three months later, she too
was refused. Later, after staging
a two-day hunger strike, she
was granted an appointment
with the deputy minister of
internal affairs, who promised
her an explanation for the re-
fusal. His reply has still not
been received.
In November 1983, Avi's
father, together with his Uncle
Grigory, were arrested in Mos-
cow. Confiscated from them
were papers documenting the
Plight of Soviet Jews. They were
taken into police custody while
leaving a friend's apartment and
escorted back to Tbilisi.
In January 1984, Avi's uncle
was threatened with another
three-to-five year prison term.
Having been accused of taking
advantage of his position at the
Central Bureau of Statistics, he
was told that his file had been
forwarded to the local pro-
curator. He protested in a de-
tailed letter to the First Secre-
tary of the Georgian Communist
P arty, and formal charges never
materialized.
The relative stability of Avi's
Fa mily was once again
threatened in the summer of
1985 . Their apartment was
searched on June 30; Judaica, a
Cecil Roth history book and
money were confiscated. On
July 4, Grigory Goldshtein re-
ceived a notice to .report to the
authorities for questioning.
While he was interrogated, his
apartment was also searched.
Although no charges were made
against the two, an investiga-
tion of their activities was
launched.
The Kriegers have been
notified that the Goldshteins
have been given permission to
immigrate to Israel.
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B'not Mitzvah Twin
Their Ceremonies
Dana Goldberg and Adrianne.
Seligman will twin the obser-
vance of their b'not mitzvah cel-
ebration at Adat Shalom
Synagogue at 9 a.m. Saturday
with Olga Ioffe, the daughter of
Faina and Yakov loffe of Lenin-
grad, USSR.
In 1980, when Olga was seven
years old, her mother, a widow,
married Yakov Ioffe, a widower.
Ioffe first applied for an exit
visa in 1975 with his first wife
and son. They were denied per-
mission to emigrate because
Ioffe had the lowest level admit-
tance to classified information
at his place of employment until
1971.
Olga's step-father is presently
employed as an electrician in a
factory and her stepbrother,
Anatoly, works as 'a shoemaker
during the day while he studies
for a college degree in night
school. Both speak English and
study Hebrew together with
other refuseniks in Leningrad.
Dana and Adrianne have
written several times to Olga
and have received a reply. They
will attempt to contact the fam-
ily by telephone.
David Slater Twins
His Bar Mitzvah
David Slater, son of Steven
Slater and Mrs. Lynda Slater,
will twin his bar mitzvah on
Saturday at Cong. Beth Ab-
raham Hillel Moses with Mark
Krivopal, son of Boris and Esfir
Kirvopal of Moscow., RSFSR,
USSR.
Mark's parents are both
engineers. Kirvopal holds a
Ph.D. degree in metals. They
first applied for an exit visa in
April 1979, and were refused in
1981, for the reason of "insuffi-
. cient kinship," and "no reason
for reunification." They have a
cousin living in Israel, but a
cousin is not considered a "first
degree" relative, as a brother,
sister or parents.
Kirvopal made another re-
quest in 1983, and was again re-
fused. Both of Mark's parents
were fired from their jobs in
1979 when they first requested
permission to leave Russia.
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