Jewish day school run by Rabbi
Baksht performed a Purim play.
An audience of mostly elderly
women who live on $35 per
month pensions ($35 buys five
chickens) lunched on meat, pota-
toes and shiny oranges.
But the elderly do not only lack
food. Because socialized medicine
crumbled along with commu-
nism, many have no medical care
— this in a city where a govern-
ment official pulled up for an ap-
pointment in a new Toyota Land
Cruiser.
While JDC-organized volun-
teer doctors provide free care, a
shortage of medicine remains a
problem.
JDC official; said a shipment
of medicine recently had been
sent from abroad but was seized
at customs. The government ex-
planation, according to the JDC
officials, was that Ukraine is
rewriting its customs laws, but
frustration remains.
In Belogrod-Dnestrovsky, a
small town outside Odessa, there
was more evidence of the hard-
ships faced by the Jews of
Ukraine. In one home, the Mogo-
ryanu-Polonsky sisters, Liza, 88,
H and Rosa, 94, live in a tiny, run-
down apartment. Isolated, they
wait to die and occupy the only
real estate they own — their
cemetery plots.
They spoke of a cousin who
had left and lives in San Fran-
cisco, and who wrote several
1 times inviting them join him.
They declined, fearing to impose.
To this day, they said, they regret
that decision.
One thing some Ukrainian
Jews can count on is making
aliyah to Israel, a lure that
shapes many lives in Ukraine.
Some 200 Jews in Odessa and its
surroundings leave for Israel
every month, despite the knowl-
edge that life for ex-Soviet immi-
grants in Israel isn't always
idyllic.
H
For many who barely knew
they were Jewish, the aliyah
process begins when they send
their children to programs that
instill Jewishness. Run by the
JDC, the Jewish Agency and the
Israeli Consulate, they range
from day camp and afterschool
activities to a youth club for teens.
Mission participants met
dozens of young people who plan
to make aliyah. But emigrating
may not be for everyone. Liane,
15, an award-winning gymnast,
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ther do many of the elderly for
fear of a new place.
For others, moving is the an-
swer. One family — a Jewish fa-
ther, Alexander, his Christian
wife, Tamara, and their 6-year-
old daughter, Christina, waited
at theairport terminal with suit-
cases and dolls in hand, ready to
make the trip to Israel and start
a new life.

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