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Under Supervision of the Council of Orthodox Rabbis
on their family members for
such support, the community
will most likely foot the bill.
"Many of these people don't
have family members they can
count on to help them," Mr.
Isaacs said. "Multiply 300 times
the $600 a month they are get-
ting and that is what the com-
munity will have to come up
with."
"The way I look at it is that
we are bringing in a family unit
and we help support them as a
humanitarian measure," he
said.
"As I see it, we should take
down the Emma Lazarus poem
at the foot of the Statue of
Liberty," he said, quoting lines
from The New Colossus, which
states, " 'Keep ancient lands,
your storied pomp!' cries she
with silent lips. 'Give me
your tired, your poor, your
huddled masses yearning to
breathe free. The wretched
refuse of your teeming shore,
send these, the tempest-tost to
me. I lift my lamp beside the
golden door!' "
"We really don't mean them
anymore if we are going to do
this to these people," Mr. Isaacs
said.
To battle the measures, Fed-
eration has joined others repre-
senting ethnic or religious
groups to ask legislators to re-
consider. So far, some ground
has been made up but only time
will tell what the consequences
of the legislation will be, Mr.
Isaacs said.
"Things seem to change al-
most daily," he said.
Mr. Goldberg, a man with a
near constant smile and a gen-
tle handshake, stops for a mo-
ment when he considers a
question about what being an
American means to him.
After he left the former
Soviet Union in January 1990
and arrived in America as a
refugee, he, his wife and two
daughters became stateless peo-
ple.
"I was not a citizen of any
country," he said. "I could not
vote. I did not have the rights of
a citizen."
As he waited for the required
four years and nine months
to pass before he applied for cit-
izenship, Mr. Goldberg learned
English and obtained a part-
time job at Jewish Family
Service as a driver and worked
at nights as a part-time math
instructor at Oakland and Hen-
ry Ford community colleges.
He and his wife Sophia saved
their money and bought a house
in Southfield in 1994.
"First, we lived in an apart-
ment at Franklin Towers that
Resettlement Service helped us
with," he said. "It was comfort-
able and bigger than anything
we had in Russia, but the house,
it is bigger."
After a few years in America,
his daughter Inna married an
American, Igor Biem; Mr. Biem
had immigrated from the former
Soviet Union to America as a
child and later obtained citizen-
ship. The couple and their
daughter Jane, 3, live in Wa-
terford, where Igor works as a
computer programmer and Inna
attends school to become a
nurse.
Yekaterina became Kate,
an 18-year-old who will be-
come a citizen within the next
year. She graduated from
high school and now attends
Oakland Community College.
Like many people her age, she
is unsure what she will do with
her life.
Mr. Goldberg recently ob-
tained a full-time job at Jewish
Family Service as program di-
rector for transportation and
translation services; he contin-
ues to teach math part time in
the evenings at OCC. Mrs. Gold-
berg recently obtained a part-
time job.
The pair became citizens last
May in a ceremony at the fed-
eral court house in Detroit. They
voted for the first time in the No-
vember elections, a right most
Americans do not chose to exer-
cise.
"People who grew up in a
free society sometimes do not
know what it means to be free,
to want to be free," Mr. Goldberg
said. ❑
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