Dear Rabbi Lamm. שלום! I am a student at Barnard College. My home is in Chicago. Coming to a new city warrants various adjustments to the surrioundsing as well as finding one's place in this large city. Being that I am an observant and religious Jewess, I also haed to find a Shul that I could attend on שבת. After going to various shuls, I wanted to find a מקום קבוע where I could go to daven. I have attended your shul on a regular basis. I was at shul when you spoke on the immigration of Soviet Jews into Israel, I was astounded as well as distrubed to hear of the disgraful and deceiftul way in which they are being treated. Yet being in גלות limits the ways in which we can help improve and chnage this situation. At this moment צדקה seem to the means of keeping our brothers in Israel. Enclosed you will find a check which I am sure you will send to the proper people in Israel...