Nachum welcomed Abe Biderman to this morning’s JM in the AM to get a Shuvu update and to talk about this Saturday night’s Annual Dinner that celebrates 25 years of amazing accomplishments while looking forward to another 25 years of bringing Jewish youth and their families back to their heritage. “In 1991, with the deterioration of communism in the Former Soviet Union, hundreds of thousands of Jews streamed through the Iron Curtain. Ignorant of their Jewish heritage, Russian Jews would require extensive support to integrate into Israeli society. The late great visionary, Rabbi Avraham Pam zt”l, had the foresight to realize that, after over seventy years of virtually no Jewish life, Russian Jews would require tremendous support to acclimate in their new Jewish homeland. His dream was to create a framework of schools throughout Israel for Russian immigrant children, to return them to the heritage that had been denied to their parents and grandparents. At the same time, Shuvu schools would provide them with the outstanding secular education they were accustomed to in Russia.” For more information please call 718 692 3434 or email dinner@shuvuusa.org.