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nesota or New Orleans, I
always find other Sephardim
who really welcome me.
"I remember when I was
young we had these calls
from Toronto. The woman
said, 'My name is Sarah
Brown. I'm Sephardic. I'm
related to you. I'm coming to
visit.' And she would always
be welcomed to our home.
"Later, I wondered, 'Was
she really a relative? Was
she really Jewish?' In fact, I
found out she was.

"That's what I remember
— that hospitality, it was
always there."
A Sephardic community
board member, Mr. Sasson
recalls a recent Sephardic
Community program honor-
ing David Chicorel.
"I saw a lot of people I
hadn't seen in a long time,
and it gave me a good feel-
ing," he says. "There's a lot
of beauty in what we have. It
would be a shame if it's not
continued." El

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SPITZER'S

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Spitzer and Mr. & Mrs. Avrohom Plotnik
and staff wish all our friends a
Happy and Healthy New Year.

We carry a full
line of prayer books for
all Congregations and
Temples.

Complete selection
of Carmel and Kedem
wines available.
Also grape juice.

Call in reservations for your lulov and etrog.

SPITZER'S HEBREW
BOOKSTORE

In The Harvard Row Mall
11 Mile and Lahser Rd.
Lahser exit off 1-696

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1990

356-6080

Kfar Chabad, Israel (JTA)
— The grocery in the small
village was crowded last
week shortly before
Shabbat. Among black-clad
Hasidim waiting to be serv-
ed stood four small boys try-
ing to decide which flavor of
ice cream to buy.
They chose banana, and
one youngster, pale and
blue-eyed with long white
legs sticking out of his
shorts, asked for four ba-
nana ice creams. He spoke in
a heavily Russian-accented
Hebrew, pronouncing each
word carefully but seeming-
ly with confidence.
It was only later, outside
the shop, that it became
clear that he did not know
enough Hebrew to answer
simple questions. He had
memorized the words to buy
ice cream.
The boys, who look
healthy, are among 196
children from the Chernobyl
area of the Soviet Union
brought to Israel in early
August for treatment of ra-
diation exposure from the
April 1986 nuclear accident.
The grocery they
patronized is in Kfar
Chabad, a Chasidic set-
tlement near Tel Aviv
founded in 1948 by 50
Lubavitch families. It now
numbers close to 600
families and 8,000 children
— more than 5,000 of whom
were "collected" by Chabad
activists from broken homes
all over Israel.
"When it first became
known that we were bring-
ing some 200 children from
Chernobyl here, many asked
us why we are doing this,"
said Yossie Raichik, associ-
ate director of the Chabad
Youth Organization in
Israel.
His organization already
had its hands full feeding,
clothing, educating
thousands of children with

many problems, Mr. Raichik
explained. Now it was ad-
ding Soviet children with
unknown medical problems.
But "the rebbe requests
and we act," Mr. Raichik
said, explaining that the
decision to bring the Cher-
nobyl children to Kfar
Chabad came from the
Lubavitcher rebbe,
Menachem Mendel Schneer-
son in New York, where he
presides over the worldwide
Chabad movement.
Many Jewish parents
within 100 miles of Cher-
nobyl turned to Chabad, one
of the more established Jew-
ish movements in the Soviet
Union, for help in getting
their children away after
noticing physical changes in
their condition.
Diane Rabinovitch, a
blond 15-year-old from
Gomel, who is part of the
group, said she feels better
after only two weeks in
Israel.
"There, in Russia, I had a
lot of headaches, all the
time. I was much more tired
than I am here. The only
thing that hasn't changed is
that I still don't see so good,
but perhaps even that will
change," she said.
Miss Rabinovitch and her
friend Diane Tolkachova,
also from Gomel, said they
don't mind having to study
in what should have been
their summer vacation.
"We like learning Hebrew,
Jewish history and prepar-
ing for life in Israel," they
said, emphasizing that the
radiation is not the only
reason they are happy to be
in Israel.
"This is our motherland,"
Miss Rabinovitch said, ad-
ding she always had a feel-
ing the Soviet Union was
not.
Dr. Ze'ev Weshler, head of
the radiology department at
Hadassah University

