The Sephardic Community of Greater Detroit announces:

Sephardic
High Holy Days Services
1993-5754

Conducted by Rabbi Solomon Maimon
and Hazan Sasson Natan

Zionist Cultural Center, 18451 W. 10 Mile, SM.

Selichot Services:

Saturday, September 11
Tuesday, September 14
Thursday, September 23

10:30 PM
10:30 PM
10:30 PM

Rosh Hashanah:

Wednesday, September 15
Thursday, September 16
Thursday, September 16 (Tashlich)
Friday, September 17
Friday, September 17

7:15 PM
9:00 AM
7:00 PM
9:00 AM
7:00 PM

Kabbalat Shabbat:

Saturday, September 18 (Shabbat Shuva)
Saturday, September 18 (Class, Rabbi S. Maimon)

9:00 AM
6:15 PM

Yom Kippur:

Friday, September 24
Saturday, September 25 (Shacharit)

6:45 PM
9:00 AM

You are welcome at all these observances for only
$50.00* per person and $15.00* a child. To
reserve seats please mail a check made payable
to The Sephardic Community and send to 30345
Windir' igbrook Lane, Farmington Hills, Ml 48334,
BY SEPTEMBER 10.

For more information please call:
557-8551 or 356-1850

*No one will be turned away regardless of ability to pay.

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Thursday
September 9th.
Friday
September 10th.

Saturday
September llth.

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summer and uninhabitable
in the winter, what with the
water seeping through the
floor — and still make ends
meet," she said. Asked how
she plans to accomplish
that, she smiles sadly and
shrugs.
One of her neighbors (who
asked to remain anony-
mous) is an attractive 45-
year-old economist from
Moldova. Married to an
award-winning composer
and musicologist, she has a
daughter enrolled in the
prestigious Rubin Academy
of Music and a son studying
at Bar-Ilan University. She
herself is currently complet-
ing a bookkeeping course
and, after two years in
Israel, speaks fluent
Hebrew — so that her
chances of finding work
should be pretty good.
Yet she speaks of being
steeped in depression and,
indeed, for much of our talk,
fails to repress her tears.
"It's not enough to have
talent," she said, referring
to her husband, whose
career appears be to dead-
ended. "You have to have
elbows to get along in this
country, and we're not made
that way."
Though feeling defeated,
she isn't bitter and even
offers the observation that
"this aliyah is like a war,
from the standpoint of the
strain on a small country."
But such philosophizing
does little to ease her per-
sonal sense of despair.
The caravan-dwellers,
many of them older immi-
grants and single-parent
families, are known to be
the sadder cases among the
newcomers. The good news
is that only 19,000 of the
half- million immigrants
who have arrived in the
past four years are present-
ly living in caravan camps,
and most of them are not
from the FSU.
What's more, for every
derailed dream fading in a
caravan, one can find a
workaday success story.
Take Rima and Vladimir
Zack, for example, two den-
tists from Moscow (44 and
50, respectively), who
arrived in Israel about 18
months ago. Sensing that
they would never find
salaried jobs, they fired up
their initiative, took 15,000
shekels in loans to purchase
equipment, and opened
their own clinic in
Jerusalem.
"It's true, we're saddled
with debt," said Rima, who,
before reaching Israel, could
not have imagined being
self-employed or taxing
such a big financial risk.

"But we're building up a
practice, with both immi-
grant and veteran patients,
and I'm optimistic."
The Zacks operate out of
their rented apartment and
are loath to pile a mortgage
on top of their start-up loan.
Still, they've taken the cru-
cial step into self-employ-
ment, which is a particular-
ly difficult one for people
from the FSU.
"First-generation immi-
grants have traditionally
been entrepreneurs — the
Korean grocery being the
current symbol of the phe-
nomenon in America,"
explained Uri Scharf, direc-
tor of the Jerusalem
Business Development
Center. "But immigrants

The caravan-
dwellers are
known to be the
sadder cases.

from Russia come out of a
background where, until
recently, running one's own
business was a crime."
Nevertheless, the files of
Business Development
Center and similar institu-
tions throughout the coun-
try are filling up with
instances of new immi-
grants establishing small
businesses in everything
from printing, plumbing,
and catering to opening a
hovercraft route to Egypt
and Cyprus.
The Jerusalem Center,
which runs workshops and
attaches experienced men-
tors to fledgling enterprises,
in addition to providing
loans, has helped some 200
immigrants open or expand
businesses that currently
provide jobs for close to 600
others.
The growth of employ-
ment has enabled immi-
grants to start moving out
of rented apartments and
purchase property of their
own. In the last four years,
some 50,000-60,000 units
have been sold to new immi-
grants (some being bought
by more than one family or
generation in a family
because the purchase could
not be funded on just one
mortgage.)
Yet of the 170,000 fami-
lies that have arrived from
the FSU, some 95,000 are
still living in temporary
housing because of financial
limitations.
To ease the stress, the
government 1• ecently ,leci(i-
ed to raise the $375-a-