THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
6—Friday, June 3, 1966

Anti•Semitism Reported. Strong Among Kiev's City Officials

LONDON (JTA) — Responsible
travelers returning here from the
Soviet Union report unrestrained
anti-Jewish activities by Kiev of-
ficials, intimidation of worshipers
at the Kiev synagogue and an in-
crease of arrests of Kiev Jews on
economic crimes charges. .
The reports are based not only
on personal impressions of the
visitors but also on discussions
with Jews and non-Jews • in - Kiev.
The travelers give a population of
Jews in Kiev as about 200,000,
which contrasts with the 153,000
reported in the official census.
The visitors assert that author-
ities in Kiev seem to have com-
plete freedom in pursuing anti-
Jewish policies and that the
Moscow authorities do not seem
to intervene. The Jewish situa-
tion in Kiev was reported as
worse than in any other major
Jewish community in the USSR.
Since 1959, there has not been
a single Jewish stage performance
in spite of many requests from
Jews courageous enough to speak
out, and despite applications by
Jewish touring companies to be
allowed to perform in Kiev, the
visitors stated.
The congregation of the Kiev
synagogue was reported by them
to be constantly intimidated by
synagogue officials who are be-
lieved to be acting as agents for
Soviet security authorities. The
chief wardenman, named Gendel-
man, is particularly feared, the
travelers said. He is rude to tour-
ists.
They also reported that on the
week before Passover, last April,
Soviet police entered a house on
Gorky Street where matzo was
being baked by Jews who did not
want to register for matzo at the
synagogue. The Jews were dragged
out of the house, their flour was
spilled into the gutter and their
baking implements broken.
The visitors said Kiev Jews are
exposed to anti-Semitism both at
work and in society. Arrests on
economic charges have increased
since the end of 1965, and one
70-year-old Jew was arrested sev-
eral months ago, along with his
son and daughter-in-law, on charges
of dealing in foreign currency.
The old man was sentenced to
death, and the son and duaghter-
in-law to long terms in jail. The
elderly Jew was not allowed to
appeal, and his relatives were
later informed that he died in
prison.
There were unconfirmed reports
that a Jewish milkman was ar-
rested on charges of diluting his
milk with water and that he was
tortured in an effort to force a

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to confess.
Other reports referred to pro-
longed interrogations of Jew s
about their sources of income. This
was a common practice a few years
ago, when 90 per cent of those
sentenced to death for "economic
crimes" were executed.
Conference of Canadian Jewry
Appeals to Soviet on Jewish Rights
MONTREAL (JTA)—Over 300
leaders of national Canadian Jew-
ish organizations, at an unprece-
dented one-day conference on the
plight of Soviet Jewry, unani-
mously adopted resolutions Sunday
night, calling on the Soviet gov-
ernment to restore its Jewish
citizens to a position of equality
with all other nationalities.
The resolutions also urged the
Moscow government to enable the
Jews of the USSR to freely prac-
tice, enhance and perpetuate their
culture and religion by removing
all obstacles designed to restrict
this freedom.
The Soviet government was also
urged to make available all the
institutions, schools, textbooks and
materials necessary to teach
Jewish children the languages,
history and the beliefs of the
Jewish people.
The conference recommended
that the national executive com-
mittee of the Canadian Jewish
Congress, which sponsored the
parley, "immediately study the
feasibility of establishing a special
national committee, inviting to it
representatives of major national,
central and local Jewish organiza-
tions, whose function it would be
to implement the resolutions
emerging from this conference and
to direct itself to the matter of
devising an ongoing program of
action on behalf of Soviet Jews."
The Canadian government was
urged by the conference to convey
to the Soviet Union "the deep and
abiding concern" of Canada's 270,-
000 Jews for the rights being
denied to the 3,000,000 Jews in the
Soviet Union."
The government was also asked
to direct an appeal to the Soviet
authorities that Russian Jewry be
accorded the same _treatment as
other religious and ethnic groups
within the limitations of the Soviet
constitution.
In an address at the morning
session, James E. Walker, Liberal
member of the Canadian Parlia-
ment, demanded the diplomatic
intervention of the Canadian gov-
ernment "in order to put an end
to the violation of human rights
against Soviet Jewry." He said
that only an official intervention
"at the highest level of govern-
ment" will help to change the
tragic situation.
In another address "to the 300
rabbinic and lay leaders attending
the conference, Rabbi Stuart
Rosenberg of Toronto stressed that
the problem of Soviet Jewry is not
linked with the Cold War "since
the Jewish people is the only one
divided between East and West,
and it would be the first to suffer
in any armed conflict."
He said that there is no doubt
that there is still popular anti-
Semitism in the Soviet Union and
that no measures are being taken
to eradicate it.
Moscow Chief Rabbi Reports
Preparations for Printing of Siddur
PITTSBURGH (JTA)—Moscow's
Chief Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin has
informed Rabbi Bernard A. Poup-
ko, here, that all "necessary
preparations" have been com-
pleted in the Soviet capital for
the printing of a Hebrew prayer
book, and that "we hope, please
God, that, within several months,
the Siddur will make its appear-
ance."
The statement was contained in
a letter from Chief Rabbi Levin to
Dr. Poupko, chairman of the Rab-
binical Board of Greater Pitts-
burgh, in response to one sent by
Rabbi Poupko to the Moscow
Jewish leader.
In his letter, Rabbi Poupko also
expressed himself as puzzled by
the reason why Jews who ordered
matzo baked for them by the

Moscow Central Synagogue, for
last Passover, should have been
forced to register their names and
addresses.
On this point, Chief Rabbi
Levin replied: "I wish to inform
you that this is absolutely not
true. There was no obligation
whatsoever for any person who
came to bake matzo to register
his name."
Another question asked by Rabbi
Poupko concerned the promised re-
opening of the yeshiva in Moscow.
Chief Rabbi Levin's reply did not
mention that subject.
Rabbi Poupko had invited the
chief rabbi to attend the annual
convention of the Rabbinical Coun-
cil of America, to be held in the
middle of June. Chief Rabbi Levin
replied in his letter — typewritten
in Hebrew—that the possibility of
this visit is, "much to my regret,
remote. The years claims theirs,
and I have no strength to travel
a distance even within my own
country in which I reside, and
especially far away from my resi-
dence."
Criticize Heschel as 'Demagogue'
for USSR Speech Before Rabbis
NEW YORK (JTA)—Dr. Abra-
ham J. Heschel, professor of Jew-
ish ethics and mysticism at the
Jewish Theological Seminary, was
accused of "demagoguery" in mak-
ing "unfounded and irresponsible
charges" in his criticism of the or-
agnized American Jewish commu-
nity's handling of the protests to
the Soviet Government on the cul-
tural and religious discrimination
against its 3,000,000 Jews.
Prof. Heschel had criticized the
program of the American Jewish
community in regard to Soviet bias
against Russian Jewry, when he
addressed the convention of the
Rabbinical Assembly, last week, at
Toronto. In his critique, the scholar
mentioned specifically the Confer-
ence of Presidents of Major Amer-
ican Jewish Organizations — and
that criticism was rejected by Dr.
Joachim Prinz, chairman of the
President's Conference, The later
retort was made by Rabbi Israel
Miller, chairman of the American
Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry.
U.S. Labor Zionist Convention
Wants Coordinated Action
CHICAGO (JTA) — The Labor
Zionist Organization of America-
Poale Zion Monday called upon the
American Conference on Soviet
Jewry to establish as soon as pos-
sible a permanent body with ade-
quate staff and budget which will
be able to execute an effective on-

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going campaign "for the freedom
of our people in Russia."
The 35th national convention of
the Labor Zionists, which ended
its weekend parley here Monday,
reelected Fly Faine, of New York,
a labor lawyer and executive sec-
retary of the American Guild of
Musical Artists, AFL-CIO, as its
president.
In his presidential address,
Faille told the 300 delegates from
100 LZO chapters in the United
States and Canada, attending the
convention, that the world Zionist
movement must become at least
as active in the Jewish communi-
ties outside Israel as in Israel it-
self.
One of the main topics ex-
plored during the convention was
the subject of relations between
Negroes and Jews in the United
States. One of the principal
speakers, Rabbi Jacob J. Wein-
stein, of this city, president of
the Central Conference of
American Rabbis, assured the
delegates that, "in essential
tests, there is not very much
Negro anti-Semitism."
Dr. Ezra Spicehandler, professor
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Israel's annual consumption, Dep-
uty Development Minister Y.
Shaari reported to Parliament.
He said there was a need to
intensify local prospecting, with
greater financial support by the .
Israel government. He reported
that, during the past 13 years,
nearly 200 wells have been drilled,
yielding a total of 1,150,000 tons
of crude oil and natural gas.
Shaarie expressed the hope that
international groups would join in
the search for oil off Israel's Medi-
terranean shore but he stressed
the need to restrict concessions to
groups financially able to carry
out prospecting and drilling pro-
grams over a number of years.
Israel's proven reserves of crude
oil currently are cited as around
2,000,000 tons, and its natural gas
reserves as about the equivalent of
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