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said the club had some lef-
tover money from its
Thanksgiving fund-raising
campaign and wanted to use
it for the holidays.
At the advice of one of the
school's foreign language
teachers, members of the
club called JFS and asked if
they could bring Chanukah
gifts to the children of Soviet
emigres.
"We wanted to welcome
them to our country," said
Price, who recently spent
three weeks in the Soviet
Union. "This is the season
for giving. We wanted to do
as much as we could."
Allison Berg, a junior at
Andover, went to the local
toy store and bought about
60 small gifts ranging from
slinkys, Barbie dolls, trucks,
Mr. Potato Heads, games
and puzzles for the boys and
girls.
Bunty Singalracharlu, a
senior at Andover, said
delivering the gifts and see-
ing the smiles on the
children's faces "is so much
more personal" than just
dropping them off
somewhere.
Sandy Hyman, JFS
resettlement service direc-
tor, told the students before
they handed out the gifts the
language barrier should be
no problem even for those
children who speak little
English.
"Presents are universally
understood," Hyman said.
For the most part, they
were.
Once the gifts were mixed
up. Olga Frankstein, 8, was
given a truck while a little
boy unwrapped a Barbie
doll. But both were happy
when they exchanged
presents.
Olga was too shy to say
much except that she liked
the doll, but her mother
Yelena Frankstein said her
daughter had wanted a Bar-
bie doll since the family
arrived in Italy.
The family, including
Olga's brother Dimitri, 11,
came to Detroit three mon-
ths ago, Frankstein said. For
them it is a special
Chanukah celebration - it is
the first time they can
observe the holiday without
fear.
Before World War II, get-
ting some Jewish education
was possible in small Soviet
towns, she said. But after
the war that stopped.
Her children have grown
up knowing nothing about
Jewish history or about the
holidays because one can not
safely be a Jew in the Soviet
Union, Frankstein said.
"It is very important, es-
pecially for kids, to learn
about Judaism," Frankstein
said.
When Olga was old enough
to know what a Jew is her
classmates teased her and
told her she was different
because she was Jewish,
Frankstein said.
"My daughter did not
want to be a Jew. It meant
being different. Now she can
say I am a Jew and be pro-
ud."
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PTACH Dinner
Hosts Sepaker
Dr. Joel Rosenshein, direc-
tor of the Jewish Board of
Family Childrens Ser-
vices/Miskon, will be the
speaker at PTACH's annual
dinner, honoring Rabbi Eric
Greenbaum Jan. 14.
Rabbi Greenbaum will
receive the Kesher Torah
Award in recognition of his
many years of dedication to
Jewish education and the
Jewish community of Detroit.
Dr. Rosenshein was one of
the founders of the PTACH
movement in New York and
was instrumental in starting
the Detroit chapter in 1979.
For information, call Sarah
Fordonski, 968-1207; or Gail
Perczyk, 967-4475. There is a
charge.
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Family To Family
Seeks Participants
The Family-To-Family pro-
gram, which matches
newcomers from the Soviet
Union and local residents in
an effort to ease the new
citizens' acculturation, will
hold orientation sessions for
interested participants on
Jan. 9 and Jan. 25 at the
Jewish Community Center
buildings.
The Jan. 9 session will be
the the Maple-Drake building
from 1:30 to 3 p.m. and will be
repeated from 7:30 to 9 p.m.
The Jan. 25 session will be at
the JCC Jimmy Prentis Mor-
ris building from 1:30 to 3
p.m. and 7:30 to 9 p.m.
For information call
258-6000.
Judge Moiseev
Chairs Peace Walk
Jewish Community Council
board member Susan Moiseev
has been named co-chair-
person of the City of
Southfield Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day Peace Walk.
The walk will begin 11:30
a.m. Jan. 15 at North Con-
gregational Church and pro-
ceed to the Southfield Civic
Center, where high school
students will present a pro-
gram of music and
dramatizations.
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