SEPTEMBER 17, 1987 35¢ PER COPY 5747 in Review: First Soviet Jews in 4 Years Arrive in R.I
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*******~*****************5-D I GI""!'" 02906 241 1/3!!88 ** 31 R.!~ JE~ISH HISTORICAL ASSOCIA~IG~ 1.36 SESfHOI\JS E.,..: Inside: ~ROVIDENCE~ RI ·)2906 From The Editor, page 4 Around Town, page 8 THE ONLY ENGLISH-JEWISH WEEKLY IN R.I. AND SOUTHEAST MASS. , VOLUME LXXIV, NUMBER 42 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1987 35¢ PER COPY 5747 In Review: First Soviet Jews In 4 Years Arrive In R.I. A Year Of Debate The Journey Home, Those Left Behind (First In A Series) bloodiest terrorist foray here in by Andrew Muchin more than two years. by Roberta Segal NEW YORK (JTA) - Jews NEW YORK - Long-time Special to the Rhode Island Herald argued throughout 5747, perhaps Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb Part Three of a Three Part Series more than during any recent year. left his hospital bed and then the Zhanna Volinsky was a good As individuals and organizations, Soviet Union with his wife Cecilia Soviet citizen. Authorities, in fact, Jews took on adversaries and aboard the jet of industrialist held her as an example of a Jew perceived adversaries of Israel and Armand Bammer. who was able to achieve equally Jewry, and - no less vociferously NEW YORK - Nobel Prize with a Russian. - each other. winners included three Jews: For a long while, Zhanna Some of the talk only author Elie Weisel of New York, believed in the system of her threatened action, such as Israel's for Peace; and Dr. Rita motherland. She was given the oft-endangered national unity Levi-Montalcine of Rome and the opportunity to study at a leading government that held together ,U.S. and Dr. Stanley Cohen of institute; she even received a through the rotation of the Nashville, Tenn., for Physiology Lenin scholarship. She was premiership, and afterward and Medicine. rewarded for her excellent despite conflicts over the budget JERUSALEM - Pundits ate scholastic achievements and her and the proposed international their words as Israel's unity talent as a musician. Zhanna was Mideast peace conference. government actually rotated the selected to help her co-students Other talk was in reaction to premiership from Shimon Peres to with their lessons, to organize events. Pope John Paul II was said Yitzhak Shamir, as promised, 25 concert tours, to sing, to recite to be good to the Jews, then bad, months into the government. poetry. "It was my life and I did it then was willing to converse, Peres took Shamir's job of Vice with pleasure." although to whom was the subject Premier and Foreign Minister. As a talented teacher of music, of well-publicized U.S. Jewish Otherwise, the Cabinet remained Zhanna was invited to study on a in-fighting through most of nearly identical. graduate level and received her August..lt's not yet wholly clear BONN The legislature Ph.D. The prestigious Moscow what the papal meeting with mandated that victims of Nazi Pedagogical Institute offered her a Jewish delegates finally persecution be accorded the same job and Zhanna, at an early age, accomplished. status as war victims and wounded achieved great success in her Still other talk during 5747 was veterans with regard to pensions career. intended to spur action. Diaspora and welfare. "I didn't pay enough attention Jewish leaders, asserting ROME - Chief Rabbi of Rome to the difficulties of other Jews. I themselves in Israel more than Elio Toaff headed the Jewish heard about friends and relatives, ever, successfully lobbied against delegation to the 12-religion day of but I looked at the world through changing laws that define Jewish prayers for peace at Assisi. rose-colored glasses." Soviet Jewish emigre Zhanna Volinsky, with her daughter identity for purposes of Israeli VIENNA - Austria recalled for To advance in one's career in Julia, at Green Airport in Warwick: "We are at last in our citizenship. Indeed, the debate consultations its Ambassador to the Soviet Union demands that native family," she said upon arrival. "People are so close to us. over what - or who - defines Israel, Otto Pleinert, over Israel's one must be a member of the It means they are like our relatives." J ewishness continued to vex the failure to replace its retired Communist party. The moment in Jewish world. Ambassador to Austria, Michael Zhanna's career arrived; she conclusions. David and Mila had and taught their family to strive Many other events took place Elizur. Israel's move was seen as a assumed that the praise of her experienced the limitations in diligently for the best. despite what Jews had to say. reaction to the election as colleagues and superiors indicated their careers and in David's The years following were a rude More Soviet Jews - 4,696 - than president of Austria the previous that she would be suggested for freedom to publish his writings. awakening to Zhanna. She began at any time over the last five years summer of Kurt Waldheim, membership, even though this They had decided to seek the to lose her illusions about the emigrated in just the first eight allegedly involved in Nazi crimes. would be a rare occurrence for a opportunity to live in a land where Soviet system. Her daughter, months of I 987, but tens of GENEYA - The Ioternational Jew. The time came. In her place, they could think .freely, advance Julia, was born in 1975 and both thousands more, perhaps 400,000, Red Cross Movement changed its a teacher of much less professional according to their abilities arid she and her child experienced wish to join them, and Soviet name to the International Red regard was nominated. Zhanna practice Judaism without fear. medical difficulties. She feels that repression continues against Cross and Red Crescent watched while another woman Zhanna Volinsky and Mila she and Julia were treated roughly religious and cultural expression. Movement. Neglected was the Red received the career advancement Shrayer are sisters. Their father and insensitively because she was Of course, the news of the Magen David, Israel's health that party membership enjoys. had died the previous year. Jewish. Julia's first school Jewish world concerned far more organization. "This was the first moment I Zhanna feels that he protected experience with a teacher who was than all this, as the following JERUSALEM Women realized I was not the same to them from the realities of life. He negative towards Julia's month-by-month description gained ground in religious affairs them." strongly identified as a Jew and he "nationality". once again demonstrates: with the appointment of two The year was 1976,about the and his wife, Anna, had suffered emphasized to Zhanna the October 1986 women to the Labor Party same time that David and Mila during the Stalin era. But they situation of Jews. JERUSALEM - An angry delegation to the 96-member Shrayer came to similar shielded their daughters from hurt ( ('Oflt in ur d 0 11 1~a~ P 111 crowd attended the second funeral electoral college that would choose in less than two weeks in Ashkelon the next Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi for a Jewish resident stabbed to of Tel Aviv. Jewish Family Service: death in Gaza. PARIS - Ivory Coast, which NEW YORK - Robert Pires, resumed diplomatic relations with 22 and an alleged member of the Israel a year ago, said it would Hope For Emotional Pain white supremacist Aryan Nations, move its recently" reopened by Terry Raky was charged with three counts of Embassy from Jerusalem to Tel "You can't separate the person bombing and one count of Aviv in accordance with a UN from the family system," says attempted bombing in Coueur resolution. Bryna Bettigole, M.S. W ., d'Alene, Idaho. PARIS - Britain was unable to A.C.S.W. of Jewish Family JERUSALEM - The first convince its 11 fellow members of Service. An M.S.W. is a Master's Israelis of diplomatic rank to be the European Economic degree in social work, a 2-year posted in Poland in nearly 20 Community to join the British graduate program. An A.C.S.W. years were applauded by about 130 dissolution of diplomatic relations means membership in the Rosh Hashanah worshippers at with Syria over the latter's alleged Academy of Certified Social the Warsaw synagogue. involvement in world terrorism. Workers. It is obtained after a WASHINGTON - U.S.Jewish November person with an M.S.W. completes representatives urged human WASHINGTON Two a required number of clinical rights be discussed at the Jewish incumbents were reelected practice hours supervised by U.S.-Soviet summit in Iceland. to the U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter someone with an A.C.S.W., Secretary of State George Shultz (R. Pa.) and Warren Rudman (R. usually taking about 2 years to promised it would be at the top of Vt.), meaning eight Jews accomplish, followed by successful the agenda. Outside the summit continued to serve in that body. A completion of an examination. meeting, Jewish activists and number of Israel's best Senate R.I.S.W. refers to Registered families of refuseniks from a half friends also were re-elected. Independent Social Worker, dozen countries pleaded the cause Twenty-nine J ews were elected to conferred after an examination Mrs. Bryna Bettigole, the new Clinical Director at Jewish of Soviet J ewry. the House, one less than in the and being the highest qualification Family Service. JERUSALEM - A grenade previous Congress. No candidate a social worker can achieve. practicing therapist for 11 years. or family unit, both past and attack on Israeli soldiers and their affiliated with extremist Lyndon Mrs. Bettigole recently assumed She is "systems-oriented' which present.