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Friday, April 10, 1987

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

B'NAI MITZVAH

Shaarey Zedek Teens
Twin Their B'not Mitzvah

Tonight at Cong. Shaarey
Zedek Wendy Sue Mossman,
daughter of Linda and Doug-
las Mossman, will celebrate
her bat mitzvah.
Wendy will share this occa-
sion with her twin in the
Soviet Union, Maya Mul-
lakandov, daughter of Tam-
ara and Anatoly Mullakan-
dov, since Maya is unable to
celebrate her bat mitzvah in
her native land.
Maya lives with her par-
ents and three siblings in
Uzbek. Her grandparents,
Tamara's parents, live in
Lod, Israel. The Mullakan-
dovs have been refuseniks
since 1979. Their reason for
being denied to emigrate is
unknown.
On Saturday, Melissa
Slaim, daughter of Joyce and
Abraham Slaim, and Stacy
Glickman, daughter of
Brenda and Steven
Glickman, will celebrate
their b'not mitzvah with a
Soviet girl, Asya Elena Vai-
sman, daughter of Riva and
Ilya Vaisman.
This twinning dramatizes
the plight of the Vaisman
family of Chernovitskaya Ob-
last, Ukraine. Asya Elena's
father, Ilya, was told he had
to wait five years after com-
pleting his army service in
1971 until he could apply to
join his parents and two
brothers in Israel.
He had served as a cook on
board a navy vessel for two
years. After demobilization,
he studied carpentry, but was
unable to find a job when
employers learned of his in-
tention to emigrate. He fi-
nally found a job as an auto
mechanic, but was paid half
the salary of his co-workers.
Vaisman's family is still
waiting for him to join them
in Beersheva, Israel.

Letters of congratulation
may be sent to the Vaisman
family at: Karl Marx 18,
Khotin; Chernovitskaya Ob-
last, Ukrainian SSR, USSR,
or to Luba Vaisman, Burla
55/42, Beersheva, Israel.
Luba Vaisman has lived at
this address waiting for her
family since 1974.

Two Will Twin
With Soviet Teen

Benjamin Greenberg and
Avi Moskovitz will twin the
observance of their b'nai
mitzvah celebration at Adat
Shalom Synagogue at 9 a.m.
Saturday with Leonid
Lisenker, the son of Alla and
Boris Lisenker of Chernovtsy,
USSR.
Although Leonid's father is
a mathematician as well as a
Kandidat of Science, he has
been unable to find work
since he applied to emigrate
to Israel in 1978. The entire
family is repeatedly refused
permission, because Leonid's
grandparents have decided
not to leave the Soviet Union.
There is also the added
problem of Leonid's father
providing "adequate proof"
for the Soviet authorities that
his relative in Israel is actu-
ally his natural father. (This
was caused by Leonid's
grandparents' separation and
his grandmother's remar-
riage, thus assuming the
name of the step-father.) The
Soviets refuse to believe that
Shimon Tauber (relative in
Israel) is actually Leonid's
father's closest kin (his
father).
Ben and Avi have written
several times to Leonid and
they will attempt to contact
the family by phone.

Rogoffs Fund Medical
Research At Technion

As a teenager, Abraham
Rogoff, pursuant to traditions
in his family, gave his devo-
tion to study. The Talmud
was his textbook, as it had
been his father's and his
progenitors' whose major aim
was the perpetuation of the
great values that was their
heritage. That devotion has
now been translated into a
$50,000 gift to Technion —
Israel Institute of Technology
for medical research.
The Talmudic studies in
Dr. Rogoffs youth in Poland
provided him with the learn-
ing that was always a con-
tinuing duty to self and to his

people. The studies always
provided him with a passion
for more. He lived with a
temptation to heal the
wounds of his people. These
were to be fulfilled when he
became an emigrant to this
country. The dream over the
pages and lore of the Talmud
became reality at the Univer-
sity of Michigan, after strug-
gles and defiance of difficul-
ties.
The former Sarah Epstein,
who was to become his wife,
contributed toward a romance
which was not only a love af-
fair but also a sharing in
medical duties. She must

