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Bring the entire family!

Hillel Day School P.T.O. presents

live from New York...

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in their first Detroit area appearance

"R CK and R*LL like you've
never heard it before!"

Sunday, February 5, 1989 at 2:30 p.m.
Congregation Shaarey Zedek

Tickets: $5.00
Available at
the door.

For more information:
661-4430 or 661-0680
Please, no Sabbath calls.

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JEWELRY APPRAISALS

At Very Reasonable Prices Call For An Appointment

Vhatelle5g/
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established 1919t.

FINE JEWELERS

30400 Telegraph Road
Suite 134
Birmingham, MI 48010
(313) 642-5575

GEM/DIAMOND, SPECIALIST

AWARDED CERTIFICATE BY GIA
IN GRADING AND EVALUATION

"BABES:
Beginning Alcohol and Addictions
Basic Education Studies"

A special substance abuse prevention puppet show
for children and families K to 3rd grade
(children of all ages welcome)

Presented by CAMPFIRE
and the
Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit
Boys and Girls will also be able to find out more about
CAMPFIRE groups and programs in this area!

Monday night, February 6, 7-8:30 p.m.
DeRoy Studio Theatre

at the MaplelDrake Building

For more information call 661-1000 ext. 267

Family Progams Director, Stu Rogoff

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1989

825
Woodward Ave.
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Soviet Refugee Flow
Strains Budgets, Towns

Rome (JTA) — The increas-
ing flow of Soviet Jewish
refugees into Italy is strain-
ing the budgets of Jewish
relief organizations.
It is also creating potential
problems in the towns where
they are temporarily housed
awaiting visas for the United
States and elsewhere.
Officials of Jewish relief
agencies say that in light of
tightened U.S. immigration
policy, an effort is being made
to encourage the Soviet Jews
to immigrate to Israel instead
of to the United States.
The sources said about
7,200 Soviet Jews are present-
ly in Italy as transmigrants,
in addition to another 2,000
en route here who currently
are at refugee processing
centers in Vienna.
The Soviet Jews are concen-
trated in the small seaside
resort of Ladispoli, north of
Rome, and in one or two other
towns nearby. In addition,
about 1,000 Iranian Jews are
said to be in Vienna or Italy.
American immigration
authorities have been more
selective in issuing refugee
status to Soviet emigrants. So
far, about 600 Soviet Jews
have been refused U.S. refu-
gee status, once accorded
automatically to Jewish
emigrants from the Soviet
Union. Those who have been
denied refugee status could
go to Israel without any prob-
lems. But many do not want
to do so.
"We will have problems if
these people decide to go
underground and stay in
Italy," said a Jewish official.
"The agreement with Italy is
that they can come through
here, but won't stay here," the
official said.
Sources here say the Ameri-
can Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee, which provides
housing, cultural activities
and financial assistance to
the refugees, is very hard
pressed to meet everyone's
needs because of the in-
creased numbers.
They said per diem allow-
ances given by the Joint to
each refugee have had to be
cut by 10 percent — from $10
to $9 a day — and that further
cuts may take place because
"the numbers are so huge."
Sylvia Hassenfeld, presi-
dent of the distribution com-
mittee, visited the refugees
last week in Ladispoli and at
a small hotel on the edge of
Rome that serves as a way
station for them.
"Ladispoli is becoming a
problem," she said, because of

the heavy concentration of
refugees in the town. "We en-
courage them to go elsewhere,
but they want to go to Ladis-
poli. They want to stay
together."
Her concern echoed that ex-
pressed earlier last week by
Ladispoli's mayor, who said
that although the situation
had not yet become critical,
the rapid influx of people
could be disruptive.

Cantors Give
Moscow Concert

New York (JTA) — Miami
philanthropist Haim Wiener
and four master cantors from
the United States and
Canada just returned from
the Soviet Union with a sense
of accomplishment.
Their mission was to re-
juvenate and restore the can-
torial arts in countries in
Eastern Europe, where the
music flourished for centuries
until it was obliterated by the
Nazis. Their objective seemed
to work: About 2,000 wor-
shipers packed Moscow's
Choral Synagogue for the
Sabbath service at which the
cantors sang the liturgy, and
for a concert of cantorial
music a few days later.
Wiener and his wife, Gila, a
Holocaust survivor, founded
and support the American
Society for the Advancement
of Cantorial Arts, which spon-
sored the tour.

Accord Reached
On Cemeteries

New York (JTA) — A major
breakthrough for the preser-
vation and enhancement of
Jewish life in the Soviet
Union has been reached
in an agreement between
American and Soviet
committies.
The historical agreement
permits access to Jewish
cemeteries and Jewish
historical and religious texts;
provides for the preservation
and maintenance of Jewish
grave sites; provides for
separate Jewish burial
grounds; and offers coopera-
tion to locate, maintain and
provide access to Jewish
books.
The agreement was reached
between the Soviet Commit-
tee to Support the Preserva-
tion of Jewish Historical
Monuments and the Joint
Committee for the Preserva-
tion of Jewish Heritage in the
Soviet Union.