Dear Rabbi Lamm: For the past nine months I have been trying to aid the Soviet Jewish immigrants in the Embassy hotel on 70 Street on the West Side. Unfortunately the west side Jewish community is not the first contact the Soviet Jews have with the Jewish community. The "ambassadors," so to speak, of our community is N.Y.A.NA., of which I’m sure you've heard. From my very many hours of conversation with all of the Soviet Jews in the Embassy hotel I can verify than N.Y.A.N.A.'s treatment of our Soviet brethren is far from commendable.The immigrant on arrival finds himself in a flophouse-type of welfare hotel with all its inherent evils: prostitution, drug addiction and alcoholic related crimes. His room is infested with cockroaches and usually is poorly cleaned and dreadfully aerated. We in the Lincoln Square Synagogue community tried desparately to obtain cooling devices to ward of the stifling, intolerable heat of the summer months.Within a few days of their arrival the Soviet Jew in interviewed at N.Y.A.N.A. and is assigned two social workers. One takes care of his living needs. (Sees that he gets money for room and board) The other supposedly helps the immigrant obtain employment. A school where they may learn English is then assigned.The assignment to these schools has been a point of great difficulty. From what I have gathered from my extensive contact at the Embassy, N.Y.A.N.A. indiscriminately assigns the Soviet refugee to schools of greatly varying quality and to perplexingly different lengths of time. Few have been sent to the American Language Institute, a school of good quality. Most have been sent to the Cambridge School ' or the Latin American Institute which have received poor marks by my Soviet aquaintances.I know personally of a intelligent construction engineer who pleaded with N.Y.A.N.A. to switch him to the American Language Institute to enable him to get a proper hold of the English language. Only after much worry and heartbreak did N.Y.A.N.A. r…