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Torah. But today, this defini-
tion is practical only to those
"Ibrah Jews" in our society.
Of course, one can choose to
try other ways to define
himself: Humanist, Reform,
Conservative or other
religious institutions that
carry out some of the aspects
of Judaism.
There are also the ones who
maintain the "corned beef/
country club" ghetto mentali-
ty as a means of staying in
touch. But, all these are
shallow compared to the com-
mitment to land as a defini-
tion. All these are replace-
ment, substitute definitions.
The only fulfilled Jew is one
who does not substitute any
definitions of hisself or

herself. In Israel, a Jew is a
person first and foremost. On-
ly in Israel can the mask of
years in hiding be stripped
away and freedom found.
Thinking back to that
gathering of native Detroiters
at the Laromme Hotel I have
mixed emotions. On the one
hand it was a nice experience
to find a whole group of fellow
Israelis I could share par-
ticular hometown yearnings
with.
On the other hand, I , feel
quite sad for the half of the
room reading this back in
Detroit.
Sad because they have seen
the land of fulfillment and yet
settle for the land of com-
promise.

Charles Krypell

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New York Deli Sends
Pesach Food To Moscow

New York (JTA) — Smiling
employees at Lou G. Siegel's
kosher restaurant in Manhat-
tan's garment district loaded
500 glatt kosher Pesach seder
meals onto trucks Monday
morning, the first step in the
food packages' journey to
Moscow.
The shipment was funded
by Siegel's and the Joint
Committee for the Preserva-
tion of Jewish Heritage in the
Soviet Union. It was helped
by Soviet government
cooperation, here as well as in
Moscow.
There, the 20 long cartons
of fully prepared meals, mat-
zah and kosher wine was to
be distributed Wednesday at
four locations in Moscow,
supervised by Vladimir
Dashevsky, a dean of the
refusenik as well as the
Jewish cultural movement.
Dashevsky is working in
cooperation with Soviet
authorities to deliver the
meals, mostly for use in big
community seders. He is ar-
ranging the distribution with
the new yeshiva established
in Moscow by Israeli
talmudist Adin Steinsaltz.
The Pesach meals, packed in
dry ice, consist of portions of
stuffed spring chicken, potato
and peas, and kosher 1'Pesach
cakes prepared at Siegel's
own bakery.
The food is flying on Luf-
thansa, the German airliner,
to Frankfurt and then to
Moscow.
Meanwhile, Chamah, a
religious Jewish interna-
tional group established 30
years ago in the Soviet Union,
announced that the Soviet
daily. newspaper Moscovskiye
Novosty carried a quarter-

page announcement for
Passover.
The announcement was
created by Chamah, the In-
ternational Society to Pro-
mote Jewish Culture and
Tradition Among Russian
Jews.
Rabbi Hillel Zaltzman, a
former co-founder of the
group while a teen-ager in
Kharkov, said the group was
formed in 1956 and was ac-
tive in over 30 cities in the
Soviet Union.
Chamah published 16,000
Russian-Hebrew Haggadahs
in New York this year, which
were sent to the Soviet Union.
They also print a Jewish
calendar that includes
candle-lighting for 28 cities in
the Soviet Union.
The Haggadahs include the
aleph bet, with Russian
transcription and pronuncia-
tion. It includes five pages of
basic explanation of Jewish
practices.
"Now, everything we send
goes through," said Zaltzman.
"We even have requests, in-
cluding in deep Siberia, from
Jewish communities which
we never thought existed."

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