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PAGE 6 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE September 26, 1986 IN THE BEGINNING. it started with a glimmer of light, A spark of interest- An interest in... •Making New Friends •Leadership Training •Athletics •Judaism •Social Awareness •Community Involvement •Fun And then came... B'nai B’rith Youth Organization Eighth graders, now is the time to join! For information, call 876-0343 BANQUET OR BAR/BAT MITZVA THINK TERRACE GARDEN INN Traditions are important to us. That’s why we go out of our way helping you make each important occasion in your life the memorable event it should be. We’ll suggest delicious menus, help you plan the table arrangements, the decorations and the music whether you’re inviting just the family or a large group for more festive celebration. And it’s all at prices that are probably less than you would think. Give us your date, we will do the rest. Toll-Free Reservations: Out-of-Ga.—800-241-8260 In Ga.—800-682-9600. Atlanta area—(404) 261-9250 Terrace Garden Inn Atlanta's Intown Resort 3405 Lenox Road NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30326 TH€ TGMPLC 120 YEARS THE TEMPLE Atlanta’s oldest, most centrally located Reform Synagogue welcomes your membership. The Temple Membership Committee looks for ward to greeting you always, and especially at Fri day, Shabbat Services during September begin ning at 8:15 p.m. A membership table at the Oneg Shabbat awaits you. The Temple proudly announces the formation of a Young Professionals Group for singles 30 and under. For further information on our Young Pro fessionals or our Religious School and other pro grams, please call: 873-1731 1589 Peachtree Street, N.E/Atlanta Ga 30367 Soviet woman gets caught in a cat-and-mouse game by Susan Birnbaum NEW YORK (JTA)—A Soviet Jewish woman, whose brother is gravely ill in Tel Aviv, has been caught up in a bureaucratic cat- and-mouse game in which she faces a tragic dilemma of having to choose between her brother and her husband. Inessa Flerova, 37, of Moscow, is the only person who might be capable of donating bone marrow to her brother, Michael Shirman, 31, who is stricken with myeloid leukemia, a bone marrow malig nancy that is fatal in young adults. His sole chance for survival of the disease rests in the successful trans plant of bone marrow from a close relative. Flerova, after staging a hunger strike last month that attracted international publicity and promp ted the intervention of American congressmen, was granted a visa to immigrate to Israel with her two daughters. But, in a nightmare of Kafkaesque proportions, Soviet authorities refused to allow her husband, Victor Flerov, to accom pany his family. Flerov’s visa is being held back on grounds that his father has allegedly withheld the necessary written statement absolving his 38- year-old son of financial obliga tions. Flerov has not seen his father since he was very young, according to family accounts. Word came from Tel Aviv Mon day that Flerov has begun a hunger strike to protest the Soviet authori ties’ refusal to allow him to join his family in going to Israel. Initially, Flerova did not request permission to emigrate, only a temporary visa that would allow her to go to Israel for testing for compatibility and, possible bone marrow transplant. Her application for that permis sion was beset by a series of obsta cles, according to Shirman him self, in letters he has written to an American doctor, Kenneth Prager, and to Prager’s New Jersey Con gressman, Robert Torricelli, both of whom have intervened through written petitions to Soviet officials, to American government officials in the highest echelons, and to the doctors who attended to the vic tims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Shirman says his sister’s request to OVIR, the Soviet emigration office, for a temporary visa to go to Israel unaccompanied was rejected on two separate occasions; that her personal request to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev went unans wered; that the authorities pressed her for her entire family to apply for visas; and that the family was pressed to apply to emigrate, osten sibly a longer process and a com plicated one, taking up precious time that was so necessary f or Shirman’s life. Shirman says that the Flerov’s application for a visa has rendered the family “enemies of the people” and has affected their lives terribly. Flerova’s request for a “character reference” from work (she is an economist) was rejected and has caused her to be “brutally perse cuted” at her job by “senior functi onaries...waging a shameful cam paign of humiliation and slander against her,” Shirman said. Shir man, in letters to Prager and Tor ricelli, wrote that “1 am not at peace with myself’ because he feels that he is “the cause of sorrows being visited upon her (Flerova) and her family.” Prager, a cardio-pulmonary specialist at Columbia-Presbyter- ian Medical Center in New York, became familiar with the Flerova- Shirman case while in Moscow in March and April. Prager stressed the desperate nature of Shirman’s case. At this point, time is absolutely of the essence, he said. With each passing day, Shirman’s chances of survival grow slimmer and slimmer. What was diagnosed in February as a 70 percent chance of survival if the transplant was done then has dwindled to about 30 percent, ac cording to medical evaluations. , Arthur D. Solus, Manager > < of Camp Chevrolet , invites you to stop by and visit. 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