MARCH 27, 1987 / 26 ADAR 5747
SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY
THIS ISSUE 60c
CLOSE-UP
Presidential
Challenge
David Adamany
is working to
overcome old
Wayne State
stereotypes
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WORLD'S
LARGEST
JEWISH
FOUNDATION
Charles Bronfman has
big plans for the world
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Emigration Trickle
Is Slowly Rising
Soviet Jews in Detroit and HIAS report more permits
have been given for Jewish family reunification
ALAN HITSKY
News Editor
Soviet Jewry activists are re-
porting an increase in the trickle of
individuals being allowed to leave
the Soviet Union this month.
Soviet emigres in Detroit have
noted an increase in the number of
family members who have been
given exit visas in recent weeks,
and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid
Society in New York has seen a
tripling in March of the monthly
average of Soviet Jewish arrivals
in Vienna.
"It's like feeling the subway
rumbling under your feet from a
block away," said Elaine Zaks, re-
settlement supervisor at Detroit's
Resettlement Service. "There was
nothing before, and now there is a
little something. Unfortunately, we
just don't know what it is going to
mean."
The Resettlement Service has
received reports from HIAS and the
local families of Soviet Jews that
eight additional families have
reached the transit stations in Vie-
nna and Rome, or have written
family in Detroit from the Soviet
Union to say that they have re-
ceived exit permits.
In 1985, Detroit helped settle
eight Soviet Jewish "families" to-
taling nine persons. The 1986 total
was four families (eight persons),
and so far in 1987 there have been
three families (seven persons). The
eight additional families total 13
individuals.
Karl Zuckerman, executive
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She can
make you
disappear!
vice president of HIAS, confirmed
an increase in family reunification
cases. During the first three weeks
of this month, HIAS had 326 arri-
vals from the Soviet Union at its
Rome and Vienna stations. "Over
the last three years," Zuckerman
told The Jewish News, "we aver-
aged less than 100 per month. All
signs are that this is a significant
development and that it will be
with us for a while."
Continued on Page 18
Rabbi Fram
Is Mourned
Zionist leader in Reform
founded Temple Israel
Staff Report
Leon Fram
hated the title
"emeritus," and
his beloved
Temple Israel
honored his
wishes when he
"retired" in
1971 by naming
him "Founding Rabbi Fram
Rabbi." The title
not only referred to his role in the
formation of the temple in 1941,
but to his continuing activity. And
until Rabbi Fram became ill four
years ago he remained very active
at Michigan's largest Jewish con-
gregation.
Continued on Page 16
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Single Life
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