Soviet Oppressions Against Jews Reported at Lvov and Chernowitz LONDON (JTA)—Reliable trave- lers returning from the Soviet Union reported here that anti- Semitism has reached alarming proportions in Lvov, in the western Ukraine. The travelers asserted that Lvov Jews were not employed in any important capacities and that they were being "starved spiritually." Virtually no Jewish performers or dramatic troupes have been al- lowed to appear in Lvov. Applica- tions for such performances from Jewish actors Chernowitz and Kishinev have been turned down. The travelers also reported per- sistant rumors that Jews were not accepted at the local university. Some Ukrainians confided that only one per cent of places at the university were allocated for Jew- ish students. The reports stated that Jewish marriages are solemnized in secret and that ,in one case, the abbi insisted that the ceremony take place after dark with only the wit- nesses present. A garage in Lvov, at 23 Lenin Street, has its entrance paved with Jewish tombstones. The Lvov syna- gogue has been closed since No- vember 1962, following a fierce anti-Jewish campaign in the local press. There are some 50,000 Jews in Lvov. It was learned also that Cherno- witz Jews who applied for exit per- mits to go to Israel were subse- quently harassed in various ways. Members of the Komsomol, the Communist youth movement, whose parents applied for exit to Israel, have been questioned at length. Chief JTA Correspondent in Israel (Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.) JERUSALEM — An intensive searchlight of publicity and inves- tigation is now focused on the Israel police. Complaints of excessive or un- necessary use of force during or after arrest are always voiced about any police, since the use of force being implicit in the task of the. police, it is always a ques- tion of quantative judgment as to how much should or should not have been applied. And the Israel police, as police all over the world, maintain that some sus- pects charge use of force in order to prepare a way to retract in court whatever admissions they made during the police investiga- tion. However, in recent weeks there were just too many incidents hit- ting the eye of the public. It started with a brief item in Haar- etz, Israel's largest morning paper, which reported that four clerks in Cheese Krep ► ach ftiadeThe Tasty Italian Way \_ , Just heat eat ok a R e ch t s i If you like cheese kreplach, you'll love this tasty Cheese' Ravioli—tender little macaroni pies, filled with tangy Italian cheese, simmered with sa- vory tomato sauce, seasoned the real Italian way. Thrifty, too—costs only about 17st per serving, HAVE SOME SOONI MONTREAL(JTA) — More than 1,000 young Canadian Jews in vari- ous parts of Canada sent letters to the captain of the new Soviet passenger liner, Alexander Push- kin, which June 2 made its second call at the port of Montreal, urging the Soviet government to grant Jews in the USSR the same rights accorded other Soviet citizens. (Direct .JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) lasted an hour, until military ob- servers representing the United TEL AVIV — Syrian troops Nations Truce Supervision Organi- opened fire against Israeli workers zation managed to effect a cease- at Ashmora Monday night for the fire. There were no Israeli second time in 24 hours, spreading casualties. a fire in wheat fields touched off in the first clash. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, June 10, 1966-9 Israel filed a complaint again with the mixed Armistice Com- mission. IF YOU TURN THE Syrian fields were set afire in that exchange, and the blaze spread to Israeli territory. The shooting UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T Monday night caused the fire to FIND A FINER WINE THAN spread. It was brought under con- trol by a fire brigade only after it destroyed 450 dunams (115 acres) with damages estimated at 80,000 pounds ($26,000). 'Milan Wineries, Detroit, Mich. The shooting exchange Sunday Many of the letters, which were delivered aboard the Soviet liner when it docked here, stressed that an improvement in the plight of Soviet Jewry would enable Soviet the Tel Aviv income tax office, Jewish youth and Jewish youth in suspected of bribery, were mal- other parts of the world to partici- treated in a police station where pate in a cultural exchange pro- 'they were called in for interroga- gram. Ition. Though held for four days Last month, when the liner, which (under a detention warrant signed by a judge), they were not per- now regularly sails between Len- mitted by the police to inform ingrad and Montreal, made its their families of their whereabouts. maiden voyage to Canada, a simi- lar protest over the plight of Soviet Shortly afterward, former West Jewry was presented to the ship's German Chancellor Adenauer ar- captain, Agram Ogamov. rived in Israel. During a visit to the Hebrew University in Jerusa- lem, a few score students organ- ized a protest demonstration. When hundreds of other students, simply curious to see the celebrated visi- tor, pushed forward against police lines, the police panicked and start- ed swinging their sticks indiscrim- inately, kicked demonstrators and bystanders alike and left more than 20 students injured on what had become a veritable battle- ground. The students reacted by organizing a protest strike. The university appointed three profes- sors to investigate and their find- ings put the blame for the incident squarely on the shoulders of the police. Premier Eshkol appointed an official Inquiry Committee, which has not yet published its. findings. But testimonies in the public hearings largely substan- tiated most of the accusations. It was in this atmosphere that papers published a complaint by a 16-year-old high school student that he was severely beaten up by four officers of the Tel-Aviv mo• als squad. According to his testi- mony, he was escorting home his girl friend, at night, accompanied by two classmates. Suddenly they were pounced upon by four men in civilian clothes, who mistook the youngsters for prostitutes and their clients. Three of the group escaped (one of them rushed to call the police assuming that the attackers were criminals), but the fourth was dragged, amidst kicks and boxes, to a police van. He later said that the beatings continued in the car and even in the police station, where he was . 9tiRAZ PITTSatigs"r" held overnight. After preliminary hearings, the inspector general of the police decided to start disciplinary court proceedings against the four of-. ficers. Classmates of the student fully substantiated their friend's com- plaint, while the accused police- men .claimed that they used only necessary force to restrain the youngster who resisted arrest. Israeli papers are flooded by letters of complaint against the police. Most of them obviously come from crackpots and crooks ( often giving non-existing street come from crackpots and crooks still, police behavior may possibly be a more serious problem than most Israelis suspected. Charge of Police Brutality in Israel BY ELIAHU SALPETER In Chernowitz, too, Jews are barred from institutions of higher learning, no matter how capable they are, the travelers said. 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