Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 1995 Page: 7 of 44
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HANUKA ISSUE - IN OUR 49TH YEARI-DALLAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1995, TEXAS JEWISH POST 7
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Young Soviet Americans:
Proud Jews, High Achievers, Model Citizens
prised that immigrant fami-
By Ned Goldberg
Seven years ago I became
director of one of the oldest
child serving agencies any-
where, the Jewish Children’s
Regional Service. Since the
1850’s the agency has served
Jewish families seeking ref-
uge from each era’s calami-
ties; from yellow fever epi-
demics to European po-
groms, to modern problems
that have devastated fami-
liesfltuch as divorce.
Those individuals who
know the JCRS are aware
that we provide scholarships
to young people based on
financial need. No one is
assisted just because he is
from a divorced home, from
an immigrant family, or from
a family beset by emotional
conflict or health problems.
Rather, these circumstances
generally cause severe finan-
cial strain on a family, which,
in turn, looks to us to help
their children. In 1994, 362
such young people received
aid, and in 1995 a compara-
ble number of youngsters
or out-of-home care.
Not surprisingly a substan-
tial number of those individ-
uals assisted are from fami-
lies that immigrated from the
former Soviet Union. One
wave arrived in the late
1970’s. Another wave of
immigrant families were re-
settled in American cities in
the late 1980’* and early
1990’s.
It is not surprising that re-
cent immigrants would ap-
ply for assistance to help their
children attend college, as
imigrants from Eastern Eu-
rope generally do not enter
the United States with sub-
stantial savings and do not
generally find high-paying
jobs quickly in the United
States; and even if they im-
mediately were to find good
jobs, it is still hard to save, in
just a few years, enough
funds to send a child to col-
lege.
This brings me to my sub-
title: “Proud Jews, High
Achievers, and Model Cit-
izens.”
For while I am not su-
lies would apply for funds to
send their children to col-
lege^ am continually sur-
prised and impressed by a
young generation of Soviet
American Jews, who show a
real pride in being Jewish,
who show an intense ambi-
tion to achieve and finally,
who show maturity and re-
sponsibility as strong as any
clients served by the agency.
In this brief report I will
give examples of each.
As to being “Proud Jews:”
Every year the JCRS helps
a number of young campers
from Soviet American fam-
ilies. These young campers,
their older brothers and sis-
ters in college, and their par-
ents, frequently call and
write the JCRS to thank the
agency for helping them
learn about Judaism, and for
helping them to participate
in Jewish life. Every news-
letter published by the JCRS
contains brief letters and
longer essays, written by
young people eager to ex-
press themselves emotion-
ally, honestly, and yes, Jew-
ishly; very Jewishly.
As to Achievements:
An impressive number of
Soviet American financial
aid recipients have proven
to be extraordinary students.
Some current clients have
been accepted to our coun-
try’s top universities, and
many undergraduates are
now studying nursing, pre-
med course work, engineer-
ing. physics and other sci-
ences.
Most JCRS aid recipients
attend nearby public univer-
sities, because of the cost of
private colleges. However,
some of the Soviet Ameri-
cans aided recently by the
JCRS received enough fi-
nancial aid from the univer-
sity and the JCRS. to make
an education at Harvard, The
Wharton School of Business,
Rensselaer Polytechnic In-
stitute and Wellesley Col-
lege possible.
As to Citizenship:
In the last several years
the JCRS has loaned money
for college to, perhaps, twen-
ty college students from im-
migrant families. (A far larg-
er number of students are
provided grants when they
are freshmen and sopho-
mores.) Of the twenty stu-
dents. just one is behind in
loan repayments. While the
JCRS loan repayment
record, overall, is pretty
good, it is not this impres-
sive when we evaluate all
students that we have assist-
ed. In two recent cases the
Soviet American young per-
son immediately became a
contributor upon completion
of his loan repayment One
of them, a twenty-six-year-
old engineer who had just
completed college, sent the
agency a contribution of $25
a month for over a year, after
making his last loan repay-
ment. *
Recent talk in Washing-
ton D C. aims to limit legal
immigration to the United
States, based partially upon
the assumption that even le-
gal immigrants consume far
more in government bene-
fits, than they produce in
benefits to American soci-
ety.
Ned Goldberg
is looking to bolster his own
anti-immigration platform, I
lory of the Jewish Children’s
Regional Service is filled
with young, ambitious adults
who once left the agency's
orphanage to seek and fulfill
a life of achievement. These
current young clients, and
former clients, are destined
for success at a pace that
rivals the entrepreneurs,
judges and physicians who
grew up at the former Jewish
Children's Home fifty or
If you would like to join
the Lupin Foundation and
the Klein Family, by specif-
ically supporting our work
with immigrant families, or
if you have other interest in
our work with low income
Jewish families, please con-
tact the Jewish Children’s
Regional Service office at
5342 St. Charles Ave., New
Orleans, LA 70115 or call
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suggest that he study a group,
other than these young Sovi-
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