NEWS Eight months ago, Ludmila Frolovskaya sacrificed her present for her children's future. Restrictions Lifted But Jews Can't Leave With only immediate family and the bags they could carry, she left her mother and friends, a good job and her home in Moscow to live freely as a Jew in the United States. Since arriving in Detroit with the help of Resettlement Service, Ludmila and her husband, Aleksandr Livshits, and their young children Nicky and Michael, have experienced the kindness of relatives and strangers in adapting to their new home. As one of the Jewish Federation's helping agencies, the Resettlement Service depends on community support to settle Jewish refugees from lands of oppression and help them become self-sufficient. The Allied Jewish Campaign Days of Decision is a time to make some choices. Do we continue to provide a home to Jewish immigrants? You decide. Please give to the Allied Jewish Campaign. 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But according to reports reaching North America, the first Jews to apply have been turned down. "Apparently no one was given an exit permit today," Seymour Reich reported a day after the U.S. State Department announced the change in Syrian policy. Mr. Reich chairs the Task Force on Syrian Jewry of the Con- ference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. The National Jewish Community Relations Ad- visory Council sent a tele- gram to Secretary of State James Baker expressing concern over the reports that the new travel policy in Syria was not being implemented. The Syrian policy shift was first conveyed privately to leaders of the Syrian Jewish community by government officials before Passover, and the news quickly spread to excited friends and relatives in North America and Israel. The State Department and White House reported that Syria had informed U.S. offi- cials that travel restrictions against Jews had been lifted. But Mr. Reich said Jews were denied exit visas this week in Damascus and Aleppo, two centers of the country's Jewish commun- ity. Irr some instances, ap- plicants were told by offi- cials that new instructions had not yet been issued; other Jews were told to come back in three weeks; and some were told that. the permission to leave would be granted only for cases of family reunification. Nevertheless, activists for Syrian Jewry remain cautiously optimistic. Some say that Syria could not be expected to move faster, given the bureaucratic realities of the Middle East. Both Secretary of State Baker and his Syrian counterpart, Foreign Min- ister Farouk al-Sharaa, em- phasized that Syria has an- nounced free travel, not free emigration. In Damascus, the Syrian news agency Sana quoted Sharaa as saying: "The matter deals with the freedom of travel for Syrian citizens and not emigra- tion." According to U.S. govern- ment sources, President Bush has written a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Yit- zhak Shamir explaining that while the Syrians have not changed their formal posi- tion on emigration, the door is now open for Jews to leave the country. Syrian Foreign Minister Sharaa said that Syrian Jews do not want to emigrate, a statement echoed to the foreign press by the community's chief rabbi, Ibrahim Hamra. But Syrian Jewry activists say the majority of the com- munity would emigrate, given the chance. They say the elimination of travel re- strictions would, in practice, permit such emigration. Mr. Reich said the Whitt House had promised to monitor the situation through the American Em- bassy in Damascus. He said the Bush administration had been "very supportive of our efforts." Mr. Reich said that the Soviet Jewry movement provided an example of how restrictions against Jews could continue even after they were formally lifted by the central government. But the history of Soviet Jews can be a more sobering historical parallel. "There's a long, hard-fought road between promises by dic- tatorships of freedom and reality," Glenn Richter, head of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, warned in a statement. "The Kremlin spoke of a flow of Jewish emigration in the early 1970s, but translated it to reality only 1 1/2 decades later." Youth Delegates At Conference Jerusalem (JTA) — More than 80 Youth Aliyah dele- gates from 11 countries at- tended the Youth Aliyah European Conference here last week and visited Youth Aliyah facilities in various parts of Israel. The Conference centered on initial plans to bring 300 children from the various successor states of the Soviet Union to Israel in advance of their parents. The delegates visited Youth Aliyah villages to ex- amine their resources.