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Out Of The Shadows

from page 11

Jewish Community Center provided
acculturation programming, said
Rachel Yoskowitz, the JFS director of
citizenship and immigration.
According to Lisa Gilan, a Federation
planning associate, Federation in the last
five years has given 158 scholarships to
Hebrew day school students from the
FSU, plus 192 to afternoon-school stu-
dents and 493 scholarships to kids
attending daytime and overnight camps.
Tracking FSU immigrants and their
children beyond the first year of their
arrival is not done, nor are demograph-
ic records kept of how many school-
aged children arrived, and what schools
they attended, Yoskowitz said.

David And Michael

David Mikhailov was 11 years old
when the car carrying him and his par-
ents dropped him off at their Oak Park
apartment.
"I thought, 'What? This is like the
middle of nowhere,' said Mikhailov,
now an 18-year-old North
Farmington High School student. "At
first, I was very bored because there
was nothing to do. I was lucky
because there were a bunch of people
like me from the Soviet Union where
I lived in Oak Park."
He began hanging out with the
other Russian kids at Norup Middle
School in Oak Park, part of the Berkley
School District.
Mikhailov went to Hebrew after-
noon school on Sundays and
Wednesdays, and can speak some
Hebrew, but that is the extent of his
religious education.
His mother, Tamara Chachashvili,
said that with rabbis on both sides of her
family, she kept kosher in her very reli-
gious home in T'bilisi. Her experience
was much different than that of other
Jews from the FSU. The Jews in
the capital of formerly Soviet Georgia,
were a tightly knit community and
allowed to practice their religion freely.
Chachashvili belongs to
Congregation Beth Shalom, and has
become involved with Yad Ezra, the
Oak Park-based kosher food pantry. She
said she no longer keeps kosher, but still
celebrates all the Jewish holidays.
Her son, she said, has "adjusted very
well" to life in America.
Mikhailov says he is a combination
of Russian, Jewish and American, but
most of his friends, like Michael
Gaysinskiy, are Russian.
When Gaysinskiy, 18, first arrived
here with his parents and younger
brother in 1994, he said he found life
in Oak Park boring.

With lifelong friends in Moscow
that he still misses, he said he'd like to
go back to visit them someday.
Gaysinskiy considers himself Jewish
and Russian, but not religious. He once
belonged to the Jewish Community
Center in Oak Park, but no other
Jewish organizations.
Now living in Southfield, Gaysinskiy
said his family does not belong to a
shut but he has gone to Israel twice to
visit his grandparents.

Rachel's Story

Rachel Kozadayev, 15, of Oak Park,
does not remember every detail of her
journey to America in 1990, just that it
was difficult to communicate with the
kids in her kindergarten class for the
first two weeks.
Rachel arrived from St. Petersburg,
Russia, with her parents, two brothers
and grandparents, who became
immersed in Jewish culture.
She still attends Sally - Allan
Alexander Beth Jacob School for Girls
in Oak Park; most of her friends are
from Yeshiva Beth Yehudah and
Yeshivat Akiva in Southfield.
"I consider myself Jewish and
American, not Russian at all," she said.
"I have classmates from Russia, but
we're not best friends."
She belongs to Friendship Circle,
and has distant relatives living in Israel.
Her family belongs to Machon
ETorah (the Oak Park-based Jewish
Learning Network of Michigan); her
father, Ilya, a computer programmer,
said raising his children in Yid.dishkeit
was important to him.
When Jewish Family Service asked
Ilya and his wife, Adel, to pick a school
for their kids, they chose a yeshiva.
As a teacher in Russia, Ilya said to
practice religion was to risk losing
your job.
"A teacher is called a 'fighter of ideo-
logical battles,"' he said, relating his
experience. "If you practice any religion,
you cannot bring up future generations."
When the family went through cus-
toms in St. Petersburg, Ilya said the
guards took a lot of things out of their
luggage, including a few loaves of bread.
"They were trying to make our lives
tough," he said.
When the family arrived in
Detroit, they were invited by Rabbi
Avrohom Jacobovitz of Machon
L'Torah to spend their first Shabbat.
"He gave us a Chumash written in
Russian and Hebrew. Since then, we
thought we were leaving Egypt. We
left all of our bread there and in a few
months, we got a Torah." 0

