!PEOPLE I The Wexner Foundation Proudly Announces Its Fifth Class of Graduate Fellows Fellow Graduate Program 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 Lewis Warshauer A Report On Moscow Revisited Career Area Harvard University Harvard University/Brandeis University Jewish Theological Seminary University of Michigan Jewish Theological Seminary Jewish Theological Seminary New York University RIETS-Yeshiva University Hebrew Union College-JIR Jewish Theological Seminary Jewish Theological Seminary Hebrew Union College-JIR University of Judaism Hebrew Union College-JIR Harvard University Bank Street School of Education/JTS Jewish Theological Seminary Jewish Communal Service Jewish Communal Service Jewish Education Jewish Studies Rabbinate Jewish Education Jewish Studies Rabbinate Rabbinate Rabbinate Rabbinate Rabbinate Jewish Communal Service Rabbinate Jewish Studies Jewish Education Rabbinate 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. 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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. ❑