Action for Post-Soviet Jewry (APSJ) in cooperation with the Greater Boston Jewish Community Relations Council's (JCRC) Post-Soviet Jewry CommitteeHosted a 25th Anniversary Gala Receptionat Congregation Mishkan Tefilaon December 12th, 2000
Many members of the greater Boston Jewish community were present, including former refuseniks (those refused their right to emigrate from the Soviet Union) and travelers to the Soviet Union who had visited with them and offered their support.
Our 25th Anniversary event celebrated the past, present and future activity of the Greater Boston Jewish community in the former Soviet Union.
We particularly marked the on-going effort in eastern Ukraine - the Adopt a Bubbe program, the Women's and Children's Health Clinics, the Special Needs Initiative for children with disabilities, the Children's Winter Camp with the Bureau of Jewish Education, the Jewish Big Brother Big Sister organization, teacher exchanges and many more people to people exchanges. Much of this has been made possible by special allocations by the Overseas Committee of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies.
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Left to Right: Ery Magasanik (Chair of JCRC Post-Soviet Jewry Committee), Tatyana Goldwyn (Vice-President of APSJ & co-chair of event), Lea Milman (former Moscow refusenik) |
Left to Right: Jane Weingarten (Board Member of APSJ) & Melinda Harrison (President of APSJ) |
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Left to Right: Congressman Barney Frank, Robert Gordon (Board Member of Action for Post-Soviet Jewry), Father Robert R. Drinan, S.J. (former congressman from MA and Human Rights Activist) |
Left to Right: Barry Shrage (President of CJP), Rabbi Moshe Waldoks (Master of Ceremonies) |
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Left to Right: Boris Katz (former Moscow refusenik), Nancy Kaufman (Director of JCRC), Barbara Gaffin (Associate Director of JCRC) as they look at archive photos from APSJ |
Yan Sidelkovsky (Guest speaker & Boston Jewish Community's coordinator for programs in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) |
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Left to Right: Slavik Brez (Guest speaker & Director of new Jewish Federation of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine), Maxine Lyons (JCRC Staff), Arthur & Andrea Waldstein (Arthur is on Program Committee for event) |
Left to Right: Doris Gordon (Co-Chair of Event & Board Member of APSJ), Judy Patkin (APSJ Executive Director) & Father Robert F. Drinan, S.J. |
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Left to Right: Sheila Galland (APSJ Community Liaison), Misha & Luda Khazin (formerly from Kishinev, Moldova, work with JCRC Post-Soviet Jewry Committee) |
Left to Right: Dena Davis (APSJ Member) & Barbara Anatolev (APSJ Board Member) welcome guests at reception table |
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