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PAGE 8 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE March 21, 1986 PALM BEACH CONDOMINIUM 2 Bedroom 2 Bath prestigious Facing Flagler Museum, Lake Worth, and Breakers Golf course. $250,000 Phone (912) 985-2221 Students from Emory lobby for Soviet Jews on D.C. trip by Theodore Weinberger Special to I he Southern Israelite STEVE GREENBERG INSURANCE 329-0674 (office) ;(ha). 325-8606 (home) < *r%<, 'ta Your independent agent who serves the community/. AUTO-HOME-HEALTH-GROUP-UFE-DUSINE55-PERSONAL \V I taw the host ideas tor designing: newsletters statiniiarv • tonus invitations resumes loans • portfolios brochures catalogs • business cards • fivers ad layouts • posters • menus • packages We also coordinate all types of printing. ( all us at 4()4-<>4 1-981 (j i >r c< une 1 iv 10500 ( lara Drive. Suite B-2 K’i iswell. < i.\ 30075 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 THE AHAVATH ACHIM ADULT EDUCATION Proudly Presents THE ACADEMY AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY “GENOCIDE” Narrated by Orson Wells and Elizabeth Taylor GENOCIDE is the story of the millions of European Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Through the words of eyewitnesses and scholars, the film introduces us to a thriving pre-war European Jewish community and culture. It presents the victims, those who resisted and those non-Jews, such as Raoul Wallenberg, who displayed heroism in the face of the mindless terror. An emotionally powerful chronicle of the history of anti-Semitism, culminating in the rise of Nazism, GENOCIDE features dramatic testimonies of individual suffering and heroism. Utiliz ing animation, historical footage, material newly photographed for the film and dramatic nar ration, the film urges us to remember. DATE: Sunday Evening, March 30 TIME: 7:15 p.m. PLACE: A.A. Synagogue - Srochi Auditorium COST: Si.00 per person Introduction By: 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.