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mmigrants from the former USSR have come a long way to have religious
freedom," Rochel Kagan says of the clients she serves. But thanks to three
young rabbis they don't have to go far to learn about their Jewish her-
itage.
As the program director of the Bais Chabad of North Oak Park/Friends of
Refugees of Eastern Europe (FREE), Kagan understands the history of those
who escaped antisemitism and religious oppression to come to America. "Jews
still feel proud of their roots, but know nothing of their religion or culture," she
adds.
With the arrival last month of Rabbis Mendel Aisenbach of Montreal,
Mendel Gotlieb of Brooklyn and Yaakov Schnider of the former Soviet Union,
now living in Israel, a variety of summer programming was brought to members
of the Detroit-area Russian community

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