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has safely fled to Albania.
Recently, U.S. Sen. Carl Levin
and U.S. Rep. Sander Levin visited
the JFS to listen to refugees, including
the Fazlius, and the resettlement work-
ers assigned to take care of them.
"Europe and the civilized world
has responded to your plight in the
only way it knows how,_ which is to
open our arms to you and to also try
to stop ethnic cleansing and to reverse
history by restoring those refugees.
who want to go home," said Sen.
Levin.
"Time Mill tell, but clearly we have
to persevere until the Serbians leave
and all of you and your compatriots
V ho want to return are able to return
in complete safety," added Rep. Levin.
Even if the war ended now, "return
won't be easy," said Fazliu. "There's no
material wealth back there at all. The
only way I would go back is with the
guarantee of NATO. Without an army
formed of NATO troops to guarantee
safety, the same thing would happen
again."
The help of strangers has been
incredible, he said, and the different
religious organizations that take care
of his family are a non-issue.
"We never had problems there
(Kosovo) religiously," he said. "There's
no reason to have problems here."
Rachel Yoskowitz, director of
Citizenship and Immigration Services
at the JFS, agreed from the other side.
"We're rescuing endangered souls,"
she said. "If you go back to the Torah,
it says you should help the widow and
the orphan and the stranger in your
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midst. It doesn't say you should only
help your co-religionists."
Since arriving, the Fazliu family has
stayed in the homes of families from
the Albanian Islamic Center. The JFS
has found an apartment for the family,
paid with assistance from a govern-
ment refugee program. Fazliu was
referred to a refugee assistance pro-
gram at the Lutheran Social Services
to find an entry-level job.
"It's been a very good way for all
the communities to contribute," said
Yoskowitz.
Recently, 28 women from the
National Council of Jewish Women's
Greater Detroit Section packed more
than 400 bags of donated toiletries for
the refugees.
"The organization is a social action
organization and advocate on political
issues that can be controversial like
pro-choice, but this is non-controver-
sial," said Sandra Leshman of West
Bloomfield, a volunteer. Its very clear
to all of us that these people have
needs, and it's reminiscent of what my
father-in-law and mother-in-law went
through in Europe during the war."
Fazliu said his family is very grate-
ful for the help it has received. "I
believe that if the situation was
reversed, and people had to come to
Kosovo, I think that we're a humane <
society and we would have helped
them just as well. We would open up
our houses, too." Fl
Harry Kirsbaum can be reached at
(248) 354-6060, ext. 244, or by e-mail,
hkirsbaum@thejewishnews.com