I UP FRONT I EDUCATION NEEDS ECONOMY For State Board of Education Vote November 8th Svetlana Continued from Page 20 painted by a Russian Jew, to the Bruans as a housewarm- ing present. The Alters said the Shte- ingardts are working, "but not at jobs that would be their choice . . . They want to go to Israel, even though they have a daughter in Michigan." The Shteingardts became observant Jews five years ago, Svetlana said. Her 16-year- old sister, Zhana, uses the Hebrew name Hannah and has refused to work in school on the Sabbath. "She has us- ed a lot of excuses why she cannot write on Saturdays," Svetlana said. An experimen- tal five-day school week has spared Hannah problems this year. Svetlana's father was a space engineer until he ap- plied to emigrate to Israel. He now works as an engineer at entry-level pay. He was told that the family could emigrate in three to five years, after the expiration of secrecy problems associated with his job. "That was 10 years ago," Svetlana said, and the Soviets have publicly published her father's "secret" work. Svetlana's mother is an en- docrinologist and was allow- ed to continue in her position because of the scarcity of specialists in her field. She quit her job last year for health reasons. The Shteingardts' latest emigration request is more than a year old. Despite mon- thly visits to the OVIR office, the family was not informed until August that their re- quest had been refused in April. They are still waiting for an answer to their appeal to the Supreme Soviet. "With Gorbachev," said Svetlana, "everything looks good from outside, but inside there is not much change. My feeling is he is better than the others were. The others didn't care for the outside as well as the inside." The Shteingardts, and Svetlana, remain optimistic. "My father's youngest brother and his family receiv- ed permission to emigrate and are going next month to Israel," she said. "Refuseniks are receiving permission, but it is coming very slowly." Svetlana said her mother and sister may be allowed to visit Toronto next month. A wealthy Canadian invited the Shteingardts to his daughter's wedding. He even sent plane tickets and a for- mal invitation through the Canadian ambassador in Moscow. "There's an 80 percent chance they'll be allowed to come," Svetlana said. "They . Elect an involved, concerned leader to the State Board of Education —Steve Economy . Endorsed by: SENATOR CARL LEVIN CONGRESSMAN SANDER LEVIN Vicki Goldbaum Lillian Jaffe Oaks Dennis & Marilyn Aaron Bert & Zena Gordon Larry & Faylene Owen Harriet Alpern Cathy Greenberg Nora Peisner Judy Ancell David Hermelin Larry Pernick Harriet Arnowitz Mrs. Bella Honeyman Dr. J.C. & Corliss Rosenberg Ivan Bloch Steve & Cindy Hughey Doug Ross Ruth & Brewster Broder Jack & Shirlee Iden Hon. Charlotte Rothstein Dr. Irving & Doris Broder Sherry Kaye Nat and Ruth Share Lester & Evelyn Burton Bernie Klein Dennis Silber Susan Cap-lan Daniel Klein Fred Silber Leon Cohan Shirley Sklar Marc Curtis & Debra Silverstein Barry & Sue Lepler Dr. Sidney & Annetta Miller Dr. & Mrs. Eugene Steinberger Gene Farber Robert A. Naftaly Dr. & Mrs. Myles Stern Joe Forbes Kathleen Straus Hannah Levin Gladstone "We must graduate students who will be able to compete . effectively in a world economy." —Steve Economy Paid for by the Committee to Elect Steve Economy; P.O. 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Every time he pays the telephone bills I do not like the look on his face. "My mother always tells me that we have talked enough, but I keep talking. I- have to talk to my mother, my father, my sister. My grandmother lives in the same building and there are cousins" and other family. "They miss me a lot. I lived with my parents all my life. Now I have been away for a year. My mother says she can- not stand it anymore." Svetlana refuses to say that she is homesick. "Homesick is not the right word. I miss my parents and my friends. But I do not miss the coun- try." ""mmi NEWS Black-Jewish Ties Discussed Boston — Two experts on black-Jewish relations agreed that despite the strong coali- tion that developed between blacks and Jews in the 1960s, what emerged from that era were feelings of resentment, tension and rivalry, and that today, newly thought-out solutions are required to allow the two communities to rebuild an alliance as equals. Clarence Wood, director and CEO of the Human Relations Task Force, Chicago Com- munity Trust, and former vice-president of the National Urban League; and Jonathan Kaufman, a Pulitzer prize winning reporter for the Boston Globe and author of Broken Alliance: The Tur- bulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America, made their remarks at a plenary session of the American Jewish Committee. Said Wood: "What we call a confrontation is often more a disagreement, and our respec- tive leadership must learn to focus on the specifics of the disagreement rather than on the magnitude of the confron- tation." Kaufman noted "a tenden- cy in recent years to try and