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…CONTENTS CLOSE-UP EDUCATION Crisis In The Kremlin Back To School AMY J. MEHLER JAMES D. BESSER IRA RIFKIN HELEN DAVIS NATAN SHARANSKY As summer ends and school approaches, kids, parents and teachers prepare for the new academic year. Reactions to the coup and counter moves in the Soviet Union. 51 28 OPINION 7 Today's issues, later forgotten, won't disappear. UP FRONT 11 Ten Tips for the charity dinner and party circuit. DETROIT...…
…EDITORIAL The Kremlin Crunch The stunning news of the coup in the Soviet Union was particularly disturbing to a Jewish community that has worked tirelessly for the emigration of Soviet Jews and peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Whatever his motives, Mikhail Gor- bachev has brought major reforms to Soviet society, leading toward increased democracy and the right of Soviet Jews to emigrate. He also has worked with the United States ...…
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…UP FRONT How To Survive A Charity Gala ERICA MEYER RAUZIN Special to The Jewish News T he gala charity benefit season is gearing up again, leaving us with a pile of expensive envelopes bearing our names in careful calligraphy (albeit misspell- ed). Having done my duty dan- cing in rhinestone-decorated high heels at various soirees, balls, dinners and dramas, I feel prepared to offer advice to the hard-working givers of galas. Since the un...…
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…DETROIT NOAM M.M. NEUSNER Staff Writer I f the regional Maccabi Games in Cleveland were supposed to be merely a warm-up for next summer's North American games in Baltimore, somebody forgot to tell Detroit's squad. Over 100 strong, Detroit came to compete against powerful teams from Pitt- sburgh, Chicago and Cleveland, to name a few. Detroit's boys softball squad fell victim to the whim of schedule, and faced the three toughest teams. They ...…
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…Photo by Reu ter/U PI Anti-coup demonstrators arguing with a Red Army tank crewman on Moscow's Gorky Street. CRISIS IN THE KREMLIN The Soviet Union, which has undergone enormous positive change in recent years in the areas of human rights and glasnost, teetered on the verge of chaos this week, in danger of slipping backward in history toward darkness and repression. Whether it can right itself in the near future or not remains to be seen. ...…
…KREMLIN CRISIS DETROIT Disbelief To Relief, All In Three Days Local New Americans worried and waited, watching news of their homeland on television. AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer L udmila Frolovskaya watched TV this week in disbelief. Monday's news showed columns of steel tanks rumbling through familiar streets and boulevards of downtown Moscow. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was placed under house arrest at his vacation home on the Bl...…
…INTERNATIONAL How Will Coup Impact Emigration And Peace. Kremlin chaos has the experts and politicians scrambling for answers to still•unresolved questions. JAMES BESSER and IRA RIFKIN I his week's apparently failed Mos- cow coup attempt raised serious questions about the future of Soviet Jewish emigration and Kremlin participation in the Middle East peace process. The initial reaction of officials and Soviet-Middle East specialists in Is...…
…Photo by Craig Te rkow itz KREMLIN CRISIS* A meeting in Odessa of Jews who survived the Holocaust: The coup has made their futures even more uncertain. Prof. Freedman, dean of the BHU graduate school, said that the coup leadership, had they retained power, would have refrained from ruffling Washington's feathers — which would surely have followed if Soviet Jewish emigration was curtailed. He reasoned, correctly, it now seems, that the coup ...…
…FIRST-PERSON two million or so Jews still in the Soviet Union. At the very least, this week's coup is sure to give new urgency to the ex- isting widespread desire among Jews to flee the Soviet Union for Israel and the West. . Already, the Jewish Agency, the quasi-official Israeli government agency in charge of Soviet immigra- tion, is considering large-scale airlifts to get tens of thousands of Jews out of the USSR as quickly as possible. Sim...…
…KREMLIN CRISIS* Samuel Vaisman: If a scapegoat is sought, it will be the Jews. Leonid Soushon: "After Gorbachev, it's 50-50 there will be a dictatorship." Marina Perelshteyn: The Moscow resident has been a refusenik since 1976. Soviet Union may undoubtedly suffer a setback. "[The Soviet Union] is so uncer- tain that [Jews] are afraid to associ- ate with Jewish organizations be- cause they don't know if tomorrow that will cause them problem...…
…'There Can Never Be A Return To The Past' Five key questions and answers about the coup and its implications. will now have to wield a tremendous amount of power to keep the people under control. ith all the changes Mikhail Two: What would be the best possi- Gorbachev made as head of ble response from Washington as far the Soviet Union, there is one thing he did not succeed in as Israel is concerned? For many years, Washington was altering: ...…
…KREMLIN CRISIS I believe there can never be a return to the past in the Soviet Union. government will be totally taken up with delivering internal economic aid to the Soviet people. What is happening in the rest of the world, including the Middle East, may be of marginal importance. It's also likely that they will want to demonstrate that they are reliable partners for the West. Five: How will the coup affect the 300,000 Soviet Jews who arri...…
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…A Celebration Sharon Goldman's bat mitzvah is more than the normal rite of passage RONELLE GRIER Special to The Jewish News Photo by Glenn Triest W- hen nearly 100 people crowded Congregation Beit Kodesh in Livonia . for Friday night services that usually attract no more than 25, it seemed like something special was about to happen. When 40-year-old Sharon Goldman, who has develop- mental disabilities and uses a wheelchair, recited the ...…
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