Totya Betsy Visits Dneper

Dr. Betsy Gidwitz, formerly a Soviet-area specialist in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is now an independent consultant in Chicago. Her university degrees were earned at the University of Iowa, Boston University, and the University of Washington. Her articles on the (former) Soviet Union have appeared in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Problems of Communism, The World Today, Jerusalem Letter, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and other publications. She travels extensively in the post-Soviet states.

Betsy is a friend of the Yeka community. She visited Dnepropetrovsk many times and always gives help and support. The computer class at the school is named after her, as it was her present to the Jewish children of Dnepropetrovsk. For years, Betsy has been sending boxes full of brand new clothes for the kids in Mironova (Gap, Nike, Etc.). Dr. Gidwitz will visit the community for three days. In her itinerary there are numerous meetings with leaders and activists of Jewish revival, as well as program and project managers. She also plans to go to Nikopol and meet with people there.