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PAGE 8 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE March 21, 1986
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At 8:10 a.m. on Wednesday,
Feb. 26. a van departed for Wash
ington. D C., from the Emory
Hillel house on a journey which
would cover 1,300 miles in two
davs. The 12 students on board
were taking part in the Student
Coalition for Soviet Jewry's 10th
ennual Washington Lobby. The
jgroup was coordinated and led by
tnyself, an English graduate stu
dent at Emory; assisted by Patricia
Prigoff. an Emory junior from
Chattanooga. The other members
of the group were two sophomores
and two seniors from Yeshiva
High School of Atlanta and six
Emory undergraduates. We were
partially funded by Emory Hillel.
The drive was fun for the most
part. We broke for lunch at a
North Carolina tourist informa
tion center, where they permitted
us to assemble and eat our lunch in
their cozy room (complete with
fireplace). After lunch I turned the
driving over to Maura Hart, a
junior at Emory from Carmel.
N.Y. Maura is not Jewish but she
was concerned enough about
Soviet human rights violations to
go on the trip. Maura added a
special something to the trip, a
sense of a broad human fellowship.
She also is a helluva driver.
As we neared Washington that
evening it started to snow pretty
heavily (four inches were to fall
before dawn). It was tricky driving,
but Carolyn Fanaroff, an Emory
sophomore trom Potomac. Md.,
guided me expertly to our des
tination: Congregation Adas Is
rael. We arrived almost exactly 12
hours after our departure from
Atlanta.
Visiting with Sen. Mattingly are (seated, left to right) Avis Gris, Jared
Kaufman, Teddy Weinberger and Eisa Katz. Standing, from left, are
Lenore Jacobs, Debbie Blumenthal, Sen. Mattingly, Julie Rosenfeld,
Ronnie Minsk and Rebecca (iris.
That night we heard several
speeches, including one by Sen.
Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey.
Sen. Lautenberg conveyed the idea
to us that we can make a difference
by asking our elected officials to
work on behalf of Soviet Jews.
After the program, those of us who
were lucky managed to find sleep
ing quarters for the night in some
one’s house. Carolyn’s family was
good enough to put five of us up
for the night. Patricia stayed with a
friend at George Washington
University, and Valerie Engle, a
senior at Emory who spent last
term as an aide for Sen. Alfonse
D'Amato of New York, also found
“offshul” housing. The high school
students, Avi Gris, Jared Kauf
man, Lenore Jacobs, and Lisa
Katz, plus Emory sophomore Lisa
Zied did what several hundred of
the other student lobbyists did:
they took out their sleeping bags
and slept on the floor of the
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TIME: 7:15 p.m.
PLACE: A.A. Synagogue - Srochi Auditorium
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CANTOR ISAAC GOODFRIEND
synagogue (men and women sepa
rate, of course). As one might
expect, under those circumstances
the five who remained got very
little sleep that night.
In the morning those of us who
slept away returned to Adas Israel
as soon as possible, and for those
at the synagogue, there was a
minyan and breakfast. By Thurs
day morning the entire lobby was
assembled: Approximately 1.000
students from about 40 states and
180 Congressional districts. In
addition, there were foreign stu
dents who were to meet with offi
cials at their embassies. More
speeches were forthcoming
many of them poignant. Rep.
Hamilton Fish Jr. spoke to the
group about the efficacy of lobby
ing. Fish is Maura’s congressman,
and later in the day he spent a full
hour with her and two other stu
dents, agreeing to adopt his sixth
refusnik and to send more tele
grams to Soviet and American
officials on behalf of Soviet Jew ry.
The highlights of the morning
were the talks given by Glen Rich
ter of Student Struggle for Soviet
Jewry and Leonid Feldman, a
Russian emigre. Richter, one of
the founders of the Student Strug
gle movement, spoke tachlis, busi
ness. He asked us to stress "the
rest.’’ the three million Jews in the
Soviet Union who remain despite
Anatoly Shcharansky’s release.
Richter also told us to push tor
quid pro quo in our dealings with
the Soviet Union. We are prepared
to trade with Russia if they are
prepared to use Soviet Jews as
bargaining chips. A final area of
concern for Richter was to ration
alize the Soviet emigration pro
cess. He called for a priority sys
tem; those who have suffered the
most in the Soviet Union should be
the first to be let out.
Leonid Feldman put things in
human perspective. He spoke of
the 35 treacherous steps in the emi
gration process. He told of a f riend
who could not leave Russia be
cause he was unable to obtain the
necessary approval of an ex
spouse; he told of Viktor Brai
lovsky, who cannot leave because
See Emory, Page 36.