I UP FRONT JVS Continued from Page 5 Jules R. Schubot Jewellers invites you to view two wonderful Collections from Italy along with the distinctive American Collections . ‘,1/4 "•" 001 W. Big Beaver Rd. • Suite 112 • boy MI 4808 (313) 649-1122 NIBBLES & NUTS Gift Baskets And nays For All Occasions Our Specialty Oriental Rugs Today's Pleasure Tomorrow's Treasure 73708088 3 3 02 0 NORTHWESTERN Outside Of Michigan 1-800-752-2133 Kosher & Sugarfree Available 14 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1989 CLASSIFIEDS GET RESULTS! s Local & Nationwide Delivery Call The Jewish News 354-6060 750 Soviet refugees are ex- pected to come to Detroit. Of that, JVS expects to see about 400 adults who seek employment. In both 1987 and 1988, JVS served a total of 64 refugees, Nurenberg said. From January through Oc- tober, JVS has helped 143 Soviet Jews and have an- other 22 on its waiting list. JVS Director of Career Development and Job Placement Services Shirley Schlang said, "I do think this first influx in January got us all very much surpris- ed." Because so many Soviet Jews are coming to Detroit, JVS is bursting at the seams and needs all of its Southfield building's 57,000 square feet of finished space to expand its resettlement programs, Nurenberg said. Although the building has another 7,000 square feet of unfinished space, JVS wants to use that as a last resort. While a vast number of Jews are leaving the Soviet Union, Ascher believes that figure may level off in part because the United States is beginning to limit the number of refugees it will accept. In the meantime, JVS offi- cials are trying to manage the influx. Schlang said to handle the overflow the agency expanded its English-as- a- second-language program this fall. In addition to a daytime English class at the Jimmy Prentis Morris Jewish Community Center in Oak Park, Soviet refugees may take an evening English class at JVS in conjunction with the Southfield Public Schools, Schlang said. With the nighttime courses, Soviet refugees can continue learning English and work during the day. JVS must also increase its staff by three to handle the larger refugee population, Nurenberg said. Its three job placement specialists and one translator are not enough to provide the individualized service JVS clients need to adjust to this country and their new jobs, she said. In addition to teaching them English, JVS must discover what job skills a refugee has, which are transferable and what training the refugee needs to find a job. Ascher believes JVS can find these new refugees jobs because of Jewish communi- ty help and a better local economy than in the late 1970s when the last large wave of Soviet Jews came to Detroit. Today, not only is the economy better, but JVS can enlist the help of those early Soviet refugees who now have successful businesses in finding jobs for new im- migrants, Ascher said. Helping these refugees means JVS needs more Emigration To Detroit 1988: 76 Soviet Jews Jan. - Oct. 1989: 415 October 1989: 75 Nov. 1-7: 23 Source: Jewish Family Service money. Ascher estimates an additional $426,000 will fund the expanded programs and staff members. JVS re- cently received a $100,000 grant from the Michigan Department of Social Ser- vices and has requested the remaining money from the Jewish Welfare Federa- tion. 0 Theater Continued from Page 5 from ticket revenues and by community foundations. "But major support, at least in the developing years, will have to come from individuals and private support foundations within the community," August said. "Our community has a wonderful record of support James August for activities like this that enrich the quality of Jewish life," said Gerson. "We're con- fident the community will rise to this opportunity as well." Dr. Morton Plotnick, exec- utive director of the JCC, said JET underscores the need for a theater arts wing and an 800-1,000-seat