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EXTERIOR DESIGN CENTERS OF MICHIGAN PRESENTS:
SIZZLING SUMMER
"It's been feeling like we
all work in a vacuum," Mrs.
Stettner said. "We need to
learn to function like a team
so we program more effi-
ciently and don't overwhelm
our new Americans right
away."
During the last year,
Detroit resettled almost 800
Soviet Jews. From January
through April, 140 Soviet
immigrants arrived and ap-
proximately 60 are expected
this month.
Detroit spends about $1
million a year for local reset-
tlement of Soviet Jews, with
much of it going towards ac-
culturation efforts, Mrs.
Hy-man said.
And although Detroiters
collected $17.2 million for
Operation Exodus, which in-
cludes $1.5 million over the
next three years for local
resettlement use ., more
money is needed.
"We do a tremendous job
but we're still trying to learn
from past resettlement
waves," she said. "During
the last wave 10 years ago,
less effort was given to ac-
culturation."
Rabbi Yehiel Poupko, di-
rector of Chicago's JCCs,
said he didn't want to see
what happened to the first
wave of Soviet Jews happen
again.
"We were disappointed by
the first wave of the Soviet
Jews," Rabbi Poupko said.
"And in the wake of that
disappointment many of us
became disheartened."
He also said that many
Jews didn't realize that with
most other Jewish and gen-
eral immigrations, the first
wave was an economic im-
migration.
"Soviet Jews left the
USSR in the 1970s in order
to live in better neighbor-
hoods, send their kids to
better schools and get better
jobs," he said. "In short,
they were just like us and
previous immigrations to
the U.S. This surprised us,
disappointed us and we
became disheartened."
Rabbi Poupko said this
lack of experience delayed
the process of Jewish ac-
culturation. He said many
American Jews decided to
wait until the Soviet Jewish
population was more estab-
lished, past the 6-to-12-
month period of language
acquisition and jobs.
"Despite our best inter-
ests," he said, "we didn't ask
some fundamental questions
like who are these Jews and
how do they define them-
selves."
Irene Belozersky, a clinical
social worker with JFS in
Boston, said the "Homo-
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