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… OUTCASTS Smooth shift for a Soviet Jewish family 43 Continued on Page 20 CLOSE-UP Campus Vanguard The Hillel Foundation at the University of Michigan is reaching thousands. How's that? Ivan Boesky…
…, Hillel foundations and Youth Organiza- tion, as well as the Jewish Commu- nity Council of Metropolitan Detroit—represents the fraternal organization's first attempt at a un- ified stand on Soviet Jewry…
… the participa- tion of both Jewish and non-Jewish community leaders "shows that this is not an isolated plea for attention. It's universal," explained Pauline Michaels, B'nai B'rith Women's Soviet Jewry…
…-Twelve Mall will include reading 12,000 refusenik names as part of a national effort DAVID HOLZEL Staff Writer A rally for Soviet Jewish re- fuseniks, due to take place Thursday at Tel-Twelve Mall, is to be…
… of silence and the reading of the names of 12,000 Jews who have been refused exit from the Soviet Union. The event—sponsored by B'nai B'rith's Men's and Women's Coun- cils, Anti-Defamation League…
…, accord- ing to Peter Perlman, president of B'nai B'rith Metro Detroit Council. The simultaneous rallies around the world, representing the voice of one-half million B'nai B'rith mem- bers worldwide, plus…
… Martin Westin, B'nai B'rith Metropolitan Detroit Council Soviet Jewry chairman. Westin said he does not believe there will be time to read aloud all the 12,000 names of refuseniks, com- piled in a book by…
… the ADL. In fact, "I'm sure the number (of refuseniks) is even greater than what we have in the book." The solidarity event was the brainchild of B'nai B'rith Interna- tional, which passed on program…
… guidelines to local communites. In Detroit, the event was hurriedly put together in 30 days, according to Westin. "Part of the problem in De- troit is that B'nai B'rith doesn't cur- rently have an executive…
… director," said Perlman. "It slowed down the organization of the event." Even so, rally organizers have already received a dozen positive re- sponses from local leaders, answer- The Makar-Limanovs HAPPY…