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American Jews are going there in
greater numbers than ever reports
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Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kiev, the
three cities of greatest Jewish popula-
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The key to the increase is accessibil-
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ing to find their roots, even in the
most remote shtetls, Frank says.
It has been his recent experience
that most of the red tape which for-
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The Leningrad synagogue.
has been removed, that the controls
placed on independent sightseeing
have been lifted and that, finally,
American Jews can meet openly with
Russian Jews, comfortable in the
knowledge that Big Brother is no
longer watching.
Frank was able to visit, for the first
time, Tomashphil, a small village in
the Ukraine in which his late father
was born. Frank is an author of travel
guides to Jewish life in Western and
Eastern Europe.
Cruise passengers disembarking for a
day's tour of St. Petersburg inevitably
head for the Hermitage Museum.
Another must-see for Jewish travelers is
an Oneg Shabbat at Hesed Avraham,
the Jewish Welfare Center for the elder-
ly and physically challenged.
Seventy years of communism has
denied most of St. Petersburg's
100,000 Jews knowledge of traditions
and history. The Lubavitch movement
is working to improve this situation