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…THE JEWISH NEWS SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY CLOSE-UP JULY 12, 1991 / 1 AV 5751 Federation Steps In To Stop Home Losses KIMBERLY LIFTON and PHIL JACOBS T Hundreds of thousands of Jews survived the Holocaust by escaping to the Soviet Union, Fear, hunger and illness were their constant companions. ALSO INSIDE Vulnerable Rep Redistricting may hit Levin harder than the electorate. Page 11 he Jewish Federation ...…

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…CONTENTS CLOSE-UP BUSINESS The Other Survivors By The Spoonful ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Thousands escaped the Holocaust by fleeing to the Soviet Union. KIMBERLY LIFTON Detroiter Alan Spoon is top lieutenant at Washington Post. 22 77 UP FRONT 11 Sander Levin in trouble from pending redistricting. DETROIT 14 • Black converts plan to marry. • Interim group to govern Sinai. BACKGROUND 35 The Syrians remain a Lebanese challenge. COMMUN...…

…EDITORIAL Oak Park Playground A little toddller, no more than 20 months old, was scampering on the beautiful new I- 696 deck playground behind the Oak Park JCC on a sunny Monday morning. She squealed as she played on the sliding board and the swings. And who below the age of 10 wouldn't find something fun about an area meant to slide and swing on? But in between the orange and yellows of the playscape was the color of hate. The little girl'...…

…OPINION MARVIN GOLDMAN ir his year, Yavneh Acad- emy, Detroit's Reform Jewish day school, had 16 enrolled. Five of the 16 were returning Soviet Jewish immigrants who were students of Yavneh last year, with no tuition payment. At our final board meeting, it was reluctantly decided that the number of currently enrolled students, with only 11 paying, was not enough to even closely cover the cost of running the school for a third year, if we we...…

…THE JEWISH NEWS 19th, you Cplyour first step. A t Temple Beth El we want to make your first step toward affiliating easier. So we offer this invitation: Attend our get acquainted Shabbat Service, Friday, July 19 at 8:00 p.m.* It's a simple, no-risk way to take a look around, and get a feeling for what it would be like if you decide to join us in membership. If you like what you see and hear, and we believe you will, we'll be here every ...…

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…..illifir001110101 191010miwomp.. I N.1 44 11i1N.. UP FRONT Sandy Levin Feeling The Heat ■ - Of State-Wide Reapportionment KIMBERLY LI FTON Staff Writer S o - • ander Levin doesn't like to talk about redistricting — not to the media, not to his friends and not to anyone else. He's got good reason: The U.S. representative from Southfield is uneasy with the many questions coming his way about his political destiny. The five-term House...…

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…DETROIT Vandalism Continued from Page 1 Sinai Creates New Decision-Making Group KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer Photos by G le nn Triest S Babysitter Merlin Walters and Casey Weiss view the graffiti. ing the park, and it hasn't even opened yet.." The park, which will be of- ficially dedicated Aug. 25, is one of three federal- and state-funded decks built atop 1-696. The decks, which each cost $1 million and were designed as pedestrian wa...…

…A Rainbow of Color for Summer Continues...! Kimberly Weston and her chatan, Joseph Baruch. Road To Conversion: One Woman's Story AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer K imberly Weston gave her black, Southern Baptist parents plen- ty of cause for alarm while growing up. She refused to be baptized until she was 12 years old. She would lob a lot of disbelieving questions at Christian ministers and Sunday school teachers. She thought communion was wei...…

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…I CLOSE-UP • tiler Survivors Tie 1,7,:z.", • . - • Hundreds of thousands of Jews survived the Holocaust by escaping to the Soviet Union. Fear, hunger and illness were their constant companions. . , ,...-;:4 ""` -1 • "- -,,„- -,,,,, - '7'1 - '"'" ,, '•,'- ".. —;,: e &r , • 9. ..„ ,a..„ ,... si.44‘ ,z tle "•-.- • s I-"1,72,,eir,a.4. ,,--_,„,,.... ,..._, .....- 'S.,- -4, -- .,-..:1,-.----- -.,.... , • ,4-.-,,,-*,-;7.... .ii, . ...…

…that would never heal. Those who survived do not forget. Among them is Elkhonon Yoffe of Bir- mingham. T he first to occupy Elk- honon Yoffe's country were the Soviets. As part of the Ribbentrop- Molotov Pact, the German- Soviet non-agression treaty signed on Aug. 23, 1939, the Nazis "allowed" the Com- munists to take over Latvia. Elkhonon was 11 at • the time. "It was very exciting for us boys," he says of the invasion. "One boy was running...…

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…her Survivors Hundreds of thousands ci Jews sinned the Moons! by eso3piv b the Sone( Union. F hunger and loess we their ' constant companions. Soviet Union. The Nazis had been especially eager to "exterminate" Polish Jews and set up the majority of death camps throughout Poland. These included Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald. The Soviets' decision to build up Birobidzhan, and to allow refugees into the country, saved the lives of some 2.5 m...…

…Below: Elkhonon Yoffe, center, with his family: "We knew only that the train was taking us east, away from the Germans." Right: Elkhonon Yoffe today. with graves of thousands who had not been able to endure the area's deadly cold. Martin walked several miles to work, starting his day with boiled water and one small piece of black bread. "We chewed it like candy," Mr. Ryba says, "because we didn't want to part with it." For lack of fresh vege...…

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…leave more than anyone, but we were always regarded like the white crow," he said. "People always told us we were too honest; we stood out." Mrs. Kozadayev said that while the desire to know more Judaically was always there, their road to spiri- tuality took time. "We've had a lot of help all along the way," she said. "Our children's teachers and our rabbi have been wonder- ful." The Kozadayevs give a lot of thanks to Rabbi Abraham Jacobobowit...…

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…BACKGROUND The Lebanese Challenge The PLO may be routed, but what about Syria? HELEN DAVIS Foreign Correspondent erusalem is on another collision course with Washington now that Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy has ruled out any withdrawal from Israel's self-proclaimed security zone until "all hostile foreign forces" have left Lebanon. The statement followed the defeat last week of Palestine Liberation Organ- ization fighters by the Sy...…

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…The PLO leader has known tough times in the past — during the 1970 civil war in Jordan which led to the ex- pulsion of the PLO fighters by King Hussein; during the 1982 bombardment of Beirut by Israel, which led to the PLO leader's expulsion from Lebanon; during the 1985 Israeli air raid on the PLO headquarters in Tunis, when he narrowly escaped death. The fact remains, however, that while Mr. Arafat has always carefully left himself an escape...…

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…Optical. Plus such an eventuality. The Finance Minister's op- timism is not shared by most of his fellow citizens, who fail to see how Israel can provide homes and jobs for a flood of immigrants without many billions in U.S. aid and loan guarantees. But, in point of fact, Israel once did just that. During the first years of the State, between 1948 and 1952, Israel virtually tripled its population through im- migration and did so with scarcely...…

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…COMMUNITY Hidden Children Share Their Memories Staff Writer E rna Gorman has been a hidden child for most of her life. When the Nazis invaded France, Mrs. Gorman, her parents and her sister fled their home in Metz and found refuge on a farm near the Ukranian border. A local farmer hid her family in his hayloft. They remained hidden there for two years. The farmer and his wife kept the family's existence a secret from their own chil- dren. ...…

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