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"My Life, My Values, My Judaism"
ADAM CHALOM
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with a full program of daily services at
the Beit Midrash adjoining the Choral
Synagogue, a day school of 160
pupils, a kindergarten of 50 children
and study groups for both young men
and young women.
There is also Eishel Menachem, the
cultural center and kosher dining
room attended daily by about 200
elderly. In conjunction with Hesed
Avraham, Eishel Menachem operates a
meals-on-wheels service for 75 home-
bound individuals.
Moscow, with more than 200,000
Jews, offers an equally large range of
institutions and activities.
Two new kosher restaurants have
opened in Moscow, both of excellent
quality. One is Carmel on Tvershaya,
one of Moscow's downtown thorough-
fares. The other is the David
HaMelech Club, in a private apart-
ment — open to the public — next to
the Central Synagogue. The latter din-
ing room is glatt kosher, under the
supervision of Pinchas Goldschmidt,
the chief rabbi of Moscow.
Like St. Petersburg and Moscow,
Kiev, the Ukrainian capital with an
estimated Jewish population between
100,000 and 150,000, now has a
kosher restaurant as well as syna-
gogues, day schools, a community
center and other institutions —
including the only Reform congrega-
tion in any other country of the for-
mer Soviet bloc. Its rabbi, U.S.-born
David Hillel Wilford, arrived only
recently to assume the pulpit.
The high point of a visit to Kiev
can be the new menorah at Babi Yar.
That the victims of the massacre were
Jewish is not yet spelled out in so
many words, but the 10-foot-high
menorah at the site of the killing field
is a definitive statement.
In general, getting about poses no
problems. Finnair service is offered
from New York to St. Petersburg by
way of Helsinki; domestic air travel is
provided by Trans-Aero. The subways,
particularly in Moscow, are cheap, safe
and some even beautiful. Hotels like
the Radisson in Moscow meet interna-
tional five-star standards. The vigilant
watchwomen" who monitored every
floor of every hotel are gone.
Separate visas are needed for Russia
and the Ukraine; the convenience of
group travel is recommended. Also rec-
ommended are two English-speaking
guides who escorted Frank; Alla
Markova and Galena Ryltsova.
Markova, a member of the Jewish com-
munity, is especially knowledgeable on
Russian Jewish history and culture. [I
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Rabbinic Intern
JUDY GREEN
Teacher and Social Worker
Friday, January 16, 8 p.m.
BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE
28611 W. 12 Mile Road, Farmington Hills
Services will be followed by an Oneg Shabbat.
Mr. Chalom is a rabbinic intern at the
Birmingham Temple. A recent Yale Univer-
sity graduate, he is in the graduate Near
Eastern studies program at the University of
Michigan.
Ms. Green is a teacher and social worker,
specializing in special and early childhood
education. She has served as an assistant
instructor for the Dale Carnegie Institute of
the Ralph Nichols Corp. and has conducted
women's support and parenting groups.
The Shabbat Services program is sponsored
by the Michigan Board of Rabbis in cooper-
ation with The Jewish News and the Commu-
nity Outreach and Education Department of
the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit. For information, call Kari Grosinger
at Federation, (248) 642-4260, ext. 241.
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