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Nina Bruder
Charles Glick
Penina Grossberg
Robin Judd
Jeremy Kalmanovsky
Alisa Kurshan
Chaviva Levin
Asher Lopatin
Jay Moses
Jocelyn Reisman
David Rosen
Howard Ruben
Jonathan Schreiber
Andrea Shlipak
Abraham Socher
Leah Strigler
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The Wexner Foundation was created by Leslie H. Wexner, the founder
and chairman of The Limited Inc., and his mother, Mrs. Bella Wexner.
The Foundation is committed to the recruitment and enhancement of
Jewish leadership.
The Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program is designed to encourage the
most promising and talented Jewish men and women to pursue full-time
graduate studies leading to careers in professional Jewish leadership.
The program provides full academic tuition, generous living stipends
and annual Foundation-sponsored institutes and learning experiences.
Fellowships are awarded to outstanding candidates who demonstrate
the potential to assume major leadership positions in the fields of Jewish
Education, Jewish Communal Service, the Rabbinate, the Cantorate and
Jewish Studies.
The Foundation welcomes inquiries.
For more information about applications write to:
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Special to The Jewish News
L
ilya Stanetskaya came
to Israel four years ago
from Moscow, where
she was a teacher of
literature. Here she keeps
busy helping other im-
migrants, not least among
them her grandchildren, pro-
geny of her two sons, one a
geophysicist and the other a
computer expert, both gain-
fully employed.
After four years in Israel,
Lilya felt a yearning to revisit
her native Moscow, to renew
contacts with old friends
there and to go to the familiar
places of her earlier years.
She packed her bag and
flew back, taking with her
suitable gifts for her friends,
including soup mixes,
sausages and chocolates.
It was not the same Moscow
she had known. All the
stories she had heard about
deterioration turned out to be
true. The famous Metro is in
a state of neglect, with stuff-
ing emerging from the ripped
upholstery on the trains.
Whenever one sees a queue,
one gets in line, automatical-
ly, and then inquires what is
for sale, she told us.
She watched the Pamyat
picketing outside the
Kremlin, carrying anti-
Semitic placards. The Jews ig-
nore them, but there is a
basic feeling of insecurity.
Thus, many Russian Jews
were unhappy about the
highly publicized display of
the Chanukiah at the
Kremlin last December. It is
not healthy for Jews to be too
conspicuous, they feel. Many
never liked to think of
themselves as Jews; now, in
the new freedom they are "ex-
posed" and tagged.
Leave? A great number do
not want to abandon the
country in which they were
born, not for Israel and not
even for the U.S. Yet even
those who feel bound up with
Mother Russia, a' e in many
cases studying II .brew — not
for aliyah purposes, but as a
means of opening contact
with their new found
Jewishness. Before she
emigrated to Israel, she
recalled, her two sons had
studied Hebrew in the
underground, at considerable
risk.
Negative reports on the ex-
periences of Russian Jews in
Israel are frequently publish-
ed in the press, but the other
side is also aired. In general
she was impressed by the
openness of the press in
publishing contradictory ol#,
nions on controversial sub-,1
jects, something unheard of
only a short while ago. ,
Many of her old chums, non-
Jews, plied her with ques-
tions, but there were also
Jews who did not want to
hear about Israel at all. Thos6
who are interested explained: 1
their failure to come here on
many grounds: lack of jobs,
fear of terrorism, army ser-
vice for the youth. Others
made it clear they were delay-
ing until they could take oveY
ownership of their govern-
ment flats under the new '
privatization program, and
then they could sell the flats
and leave with a little capital.
Some of the older people
were ready to leave, but did,
not want to do so without(
their grown children, and the
When one sees a
queue, one gets in
line, and then
inquires what is
for sale.
latter refused to stir, knowing
the job situation in Israel.
She met with prospective
olim from central Asia
republics who were complete- ,
ly ignorant of life in Israel.
One man confided in her that
he was afraid he would be I'
compelled to attend
synagogue if he went to
Israel.
Tragic was the dilemma of
those who had been farbrente
Communists. Their wholes
world had collapsed around
them. One, a professor of
Marxist philosophy, mourn-
fully declared that his entire„
life had been wasted.
Did she feel like remaining
there? No, but she would not
be averse to paying another
visit. Perhaps that should be
soon, she added, for dark
clouds hover over the country. EJ
The situation in Moscow now
— and she chose her words
carefully — is not unlike that
in February 1917, after the
first revolution, when there
were many hardships, but a
feeling of hope for the new
democracy. And those who
know their history recall that
all their hopes collapsed with
the Bolshevik Revolution of
October 1917.
The brooding feeling today
is that the startling changes
in the country have not yet
ended.
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