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C.D.W. $750 Monthly Rates from USA & CANADA RESERVAT & PREPYMNT 800-533-8778; IN NY: 212-629-6090 VALID 23/4. 21/7 AND 27/B - 31/10/90 Glasnost and perestroika have created new oppor- tunities for Jews to live Jewishly in Russia. B'nai B'rith has established a Moscow lodge. The Solomon Mikhoels Cultural Center has opened. A New York can- tor came to teach master classes. The Israeli pavilion at the 1989 Moscow Book Fair drew nearly 70,000 hunger- ing for Jewish books. The new openness has al- lowed a flow of Jewish re- ligious items, literature, videos, tapes and records into Moscow. Concerts of Jewish music are sellouts. On Sim- chat Torah, the great Choral Synagogue is jammed. Yet, Jewish life has not changed much with the Gor- bachev regime. Outward signs of Jewish activity are limited to a few synagogues and the Mikhoels Center. Except for the Steinsaltz Yeshiva, there are no established Jewish schools. There are about 1.8 million Jews throughout the USSR, with an estimated 220,000 in Moscow. Ninety-two syna- gogues exist in the Soviet Union, with the Choral and the Marina Roscha the best known in Moscow. Attached to the Choral Synagogue are a mikvah, ritual slaughterhouse, mat- zah bakery and schoolroom where elderly congregants gather to discuss Torah. There also is a small library. Services are held mornings, evenings and on Shabbat. Other sites of Jewish in- terest are the Novodevichy Cemetery; the Lenin Library, which houses Hebraica and Judaica; the Museum of Literature; the Tolstoy Museum; and the Mikhoels Monument, a memorial to Solomon Mikhoels, an actor and director of the Moscow State _Yiddish Theater who was murdered during the Stalin regime. The Novodevichy Cemetery is the burial ground for the ashes of many Jewish revolu- tionaries. It also contains the grave of Isaak Ilyich Levitan, the son of a Lithuanian rab- bi, who became Russia's greatest landscape painter of the 19th Century. The Lenin Library is home to 6,000 rare manuscripts and fragments of the Baron David de Guinsburg Collection of Hebraica and Judaica. The Museum of Literature has the original manuscripts of great Russian writers, including Ilya Ehrenburg, the best known of contemporary Soviet Jewish writers. In the Tolstoy Museum, there is a collection of Hebrew transla- tions of Leo Tolstoy's work, printed in Israel. The Detroit Jewish com- munity's Exodus Mission Sept. 5-16 will give par- ticipants an opportunity to visit these Jewish sites and institutions when they choose the Moscow pre-mission op- tion. The trip will include ser- vices at the Choral Syna- gogue, sharing experiences with "modern Maccabees" — refuseniks and other Jews waiting for exit visas — and an evening at the Mikhoels Center. Pre-mission options are also available to Poland and Hungary. Contributors of $5,000 or more to the 1991 Allied Jewish Campaign are eligible to participate. Follow- ing their pre-mission trips, the groups will convene in Israel for a combined celebration. In Israel, mission par- ticipants will meet with Soviet Jewish immigrants and see the absorption pro- cess first hand. There will be meetings with Israeli of- ficials, cultural activities, social events, archeological explorations, tours and entertainment. Leading the Exodus Mis- sion are Larry Jackier, Dr. Richard Krugel, David Mon- dry and Joe Orley. For information, call Tom Wexelberg-Clouser at the Jewish Welfare Federation, 965-3939, Ext. 121. NEWS Israeli Court Again Indicts Able Nathan Jerusalem (JPFS) — Peace activist Abie Nathan has been charged with violating the Anti-Terror Law barring Israelis from meeting with PLO representatives and was released on 10,000 shekels ($5,000) bail. Nathan admitted to the charges during police ques- tioning, a few days after he returned from two weeks of talks in Tunis with PLO chief Yassir Arafat. District Court Judge Reuven Gigi rejected a police request to issue an order barring Nathan from leav- ing the country.