May 14, 2004 • Page Image 51
…ASP"Vh tty tf. 40%1, 4iiatiik6 million Jews in the former Soviet Union <, 1 million in Russia alone Jewish Federations of the CIS and Baltic States serves more than 400 communities and has opened-facilities to care for 1,500 children. • Opposite page: Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz with Ilyusha, 7, from Chechnya. determination to meet a visiting rabbi named Mendel Futerfas, who reportedly spent 14 years in a Soviet prison for sup- porting Jewish...…

















































