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o tensive one-day citation for the -e Fund in the j vi.e Indianapolis Jewish community will be made on Sunday. Jan. 18th. “Super Sunday” is part of a nation-wide mass telethon that has been in the planning and organizing stages for many weeks. THE LOCAL EFFORT will be directed by a committee chaired by Michael Seigel and coordinated by Bernard Cohen, assistant director of the Jewish Welfare Federation. Telethon headquarters will be the Marten House. A battery of 25 telephones will be available in a ballroom, manned in two-hour shifts by dozens of volunteers from all segments of the community agency boards, congregations, civic groups and others Brief training sessions will be conducted for each shift

and a dairy brunch will be served. Donors up to $300 will be solicited. “We will be calling people asking for their assistance in the tremendous needs at home and abroad and of the significance of the campaign,” Seigel said. “This is an event for the entire community and we hope to recruit at east 100 solicitors.” The following schedule has been devised: Shift 1—Training 9:3010:00; phoning 10:00-11:30. Shift 2—Training 11:00-11:30; phoning 11:30-1:00. Shift 3— Training 12:30-1:00; phoning 1:00-2:30. Shift 4— Training 2:00-2:30; phoning 2:30-4:00. Volunteers are urged to contact Berhard Cohen at 6372473, for further information and aggignrp^tF*

All-Night Schule-ln Set In Terre Heute

TERRE HAUTE - The first annual Schule-ln of the junior Youth Group, including classes from the fifth through the eighth grades of the Religious School will be held Friday night, Jan. 16. Immediately following classes on Friday afternoon, the young people will prepare their own Shabbat meal, and afterwards join the congregation at services and a Torah reading. They will then repair to the vestry

where they will share in a number of programs and activities led by Rabbi Klein and Mike Atkins as well as prepare their own snacks, watch movies and play games. The young people are asked to bring their own sleeping bags. Saturday morning they will prepare their own breakfast and conduct their own Sabbath services and then return to their homes.

History Society Gets Two Bequests

FORT WAYNE — Two

bequests, one from a nonJew, have been announced by the Indiana Jewish Historical Society. A bequest of $500 has been willed to the Society by the late Curtis Stein. The second bequest is from J.I. Evans who was not Jewish, and from whom the Society leases its quarters. He died recently at the age of 90, and the amount

has not been determined. The Society received a grant of $1,000 from the Sol and Arlene Bronstein Foundation of Evansville last

January.

It was also announced that Prof. Jack Glazier of Oberlin College has received a grant to study the 70-year history of the Sephardic community of Indianapolis.

Rabbi To Teach Judaic Course

TERRE HAUTE — A course in The Jewish Heritage and Its Development Through History will be taught by Rabbi Joseph P. Klein at Indiana State University on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. begin-

ning on Jan. 13.

The course will deal with historic and philosophic developments of the Jewish

heritage as well as cover lifecycle events, festivals, ceremonies, symbols, customs and rituals. The course is being offered through the Humanities Department and is sponsored by the Jewish Chatauqua Society. Students who have not taken courses at I.S.U. must pay a $10 fee as well as the audit fee of $5.

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Four Russian Jews Here Compare Life In U.S.S.R. And In Our City

By GISELA WEISZ Lack of language knowledge and inadquate transportation are their major problems, four Russian immigrants participating in a panel at the B’nai Torah last Sunday related. In the United States only a short time, the two men and two women told of their experiences in their newly adopted country and answered questions in a surprisingly understandable English, only occasionally helped out by moderator Mike Blain. NATAN VOLDMAN, a tool and die maker came from Kiev, and his family have lived in Indianapolis for the past two and a half years. He describes some of the changes in his life: “I was in Russia tod maker. I have same job right now. It is different because in Russia a toolmaker is just a benchworker at a steel bench. Here in United States a toolmaker most know all kinds of machine jobs and he must make tools and dies himself from the beginning to the

end.”

Voldman said that while the differences in methods of manufacturing are similar between the United States and the Soviet Union, to him, the surprising element in the new job were the people. They are friendly, eager to teach him, eager to help him. His fellow workers own all their handtools, unlike their counterparts in Kiev. Still they open their tool box and offer to lend their expensive tools and instruments to the newlyarrived Russian. Voldman said, that this would be unthinkable in a Russian fac-

tory.

OF JEWISH LIFE in Kiev he said that it is hard to know how many are Jewish. In the one shul in the city, the older generation gather on holidays, because they know how to pray, he said. However, the younger ones create a crowd around the temple in the surrounding streets. With their presence somehow they delcare their Jewish solidarity. Wife and mother Klara Brodsky, one year in the United States, found adjustment to her new job relatively easy. Being a computer programmer, she had worked in Minsk on an Americanmade IBM computer. Here

she works on the same type of

equipment.

Valentina Beloschowsky, a serious-faced young woman with pretty red hair, admitted that she has problems finding the right niche for herself. Her training calls for supervising and planning sewer systems, which as she said, is a common occupation for women in Russia, but a most unusual field for female in the

United States. Being here for a year, she is without the right kind of work, but is hopeful. Leonid Perel, a healthy looking young man has been trained as a construction engineer. The outstanding difference he found was that in his previous country everyone worked for one boss: the state. Here, there are individual builders and while their working methods are varied, basically the work

is similar.

The large audience bombarded the paneltots with questions. “Have you lived as well over there as here? Why did you come here? What is the difference between mem bers of the Communist party and other people?” One panelist described his earlier hoipe as a small, oneroom flat, where he, his wife and child lived, sharing the bath and kitchen with two other families. He earned 300 rubels a month, rough equivalent to $300. “We left Russia because we

didn’t see a future for our children,” said Valentina. “My father, who had a very good job as an executive in a big factory, had died. His job will not be given to a Jew any more. There is discrimination against Jews in the Soviet Union now and it is getting

worse.”

She continued: “What you see in the newspaper and what the truth is—is different. In the papers there is no discrimination!” While officially Jews are not harassed, Mr. Perel described one instance of the methods used by the Russian authorities. In Leningrad, on Simchat Torah, a holiday when traditionally Jews, young and old alike, stream toward the shul and often impromptu bora-dancing and singing occur spontaneously around the synagogue, the streets leading to the shul were closed off. The explanation was important road

repair!

About adjusting to their new life, the four ycu'^g people agreed that there is a great deal to be learned about culture and customs here and they aided by attending classes for the foreign born. They savor life here, even if at times they face difficult problems. Perel summed up ms feelings: “If you were bom in the United States, you just cannot appreciate freedom! ”

Federation Apartments To Be Ready in Spring

Construction of the Park

Regency Apartments under Jewish Welfare Federation auspices on the city’s far nor-thwest-side is on schedule due to good fall weather and officials expressed confidence this week that the apartments will be ready for occupancy

this spring.

The complex will include 111 units, 103 one-bedroom and eight two-bedroom units. Each Unit will be carpeted and will have emergency call buttons and grab bars. Each will also have either a terrace

or a patio.

THE TWO-STORY building, at 8851 Colby Rd., just north of 88th Street, is designed for the well elderly — those able to live in-

dependently and maintain

their own apartments.

The building will have a kosher kitchen, a dining

room, spacious recreational and lounge areas, arts and crafts room and a chapel. Plans are being made to include a commissary where small grocery items can be purchased. There will also be a beauty-barber shop and a library; walkaways, room for gardening, benches and some outdoor activity areas. Hie building is a 11-electrie. Each kitchen has a disposal and there will be laundry

facilities.

INDIVIDUALS 82 and older are eligible as prospective tenants. Hie project is being built by the Federation with a 100 percent direct loan from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In addition to the mortgage loan, there is rent subsidy available to those who (Continued On Next Pane)