troit and Flint Communitie
Major Campaigns for UJA
Detroit and Flint Jewish communities will launch their major philan-
thropic drives next week—for the United Jewish Appeal and the local,
national and overseas causes included in the allocations.
The Allied Jewish Campaign of Detroit will open formally at a meeting
at the Jewish Center Wednesday evening. Philip M. Klutznick will be
guest speaker.
Alfred Deutsch is chairman of the Detroit campaign for more than 50
local, national and overseas causes.
The Flint drive will be inaugurated Tuesday evening under the chair-
manship of Joseph Megdell. Zvi Kolitz will be guest speaker.
Details about the plans of both communities appear on Page 17—the
first news page of this issue—a.nd pages 20 and 23 also are devoted to the
Flint drive.
The Flint drive coincides with the total circulation enrollment in The
Jewish News of all Flint Jewish residents by the Flint Jewish Community
Council.
Reveal 'Terrible Pressure Accompanied by Threats'
Aimed to Force USSR Jews' Anti-Israel Demonstrations
WASHINGTON (JTA) — "Ter-
rible pressure accompanied by
threats" is being exerted on Jewish
leaders in the Soviet Union to
write letters of protest and or-
g a n i z e public demonstrations
against Israel, the Washington
Post reports on the basis of infor-
mation received in Washington
from travelers.
The report reveals that officials
of synagogues in Moscow, Tash-
kent and other cities were sum-
moned one by one recently to the
office of a known Soviet secret
police agent in the government
bureau in Moscow handling re-
ligious affairs. Under threat of
retaliation unless they cooperated,
they were urged to organize letter-
writing campaigns and protest
demonstrations to take place this
Saturday.
Soviet concern supposedly was
aroused by a "Week of Soviet
Jews" devoted to the cause of
Soviet Jewry held in Israel at the
end of February. This observance
was one of a series of the life of
Jews in other countries sponsored
by the World Jewish Congress.
"Some synagogue leaders are said
to have refused to call protest
meetings on Saturday because it
is the Jewish Sabbath. It is thought
that in consequence some of the
-forced demonstrations may take
place tomorrow." the report in
the Washington Post said.
The "week" in Israel followed
similar discussions of the situa-
tion of Jews in Britain, France
and Latin America. No Israeli
officials participated. The ses-
sion on Soviet Jews had been
postponed for six months be-
cause of pressure from the So-
viet government.
The Washington Post points out
that the current Soviet efforts
against Israel are apparently a
sequel to the recent trial of a
Soviet Jew for alleged espionage
on behalf of Israel. The trial was
disclosed in February. Solomon
Dolnik, a retired engineer, was
convicted in Moscow of conspiring
for espionage purposes with mem-
bers of the Israeli Embassy —
notably David Gavish, a second
secretary who was declared per-
sona non grata last Aug. 14. Israel
has categorically denied that mem-
bers of the Embassy committed any
impropriety with Dolnik.
An Israeli source told the
Washington Post that the Soviet
charges were "total fabrications"
Shazar to Visit Canada
JERUSALEM (ZINS)LPresident
Zalman Shazar will officially visit
Canada in May for a week to at-
tend the centenary celebrations of
the Zionist Federation. The Presi-
dent, who will arrive in Ottawa
May 21, will take part in the
Israel Day Festivities at Expo '67
in Montreal, and is also planning
to visit Toronto and Quebec City.
and likened them to accusations
against Soviet Jewish physicians
in the "doctors plot" during the
Stalin era.
(The American Jewish Confer-
ence on Soviet Jewry, representing
25 major national Jewish organiza-
tions, expressed its "shock and
chagrin". at the report published
in the Washington Post that pres-
sure accompanied by threats is
being exerted on Jewish leaders
in the Soviet Union to write letters
of protest and organize public dem-
onstrations against Israel. "T h e
Jewish citizens of the Soviet Union
are being subjected to a pattern
of harassnient, particularly in
their relationships with their fel-
low Jews in Israel and the West,"
said Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman
of the Conference. "This is but
the most recent in a whole series
of incidents which seem to be
directed to arousing the fears of
Soviet Jews against innocent and
legitimate contact with their co- Jewish Congress.
religionists abroad.")
The World Jewish Congress in
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Israel had sponsored a "Week on
Izvestia Attacks Israel for
Soviet Jews" during which Israelis
Permitting. 'Week on Soviet Jews' were told of the discriminations
LONDON (JTA) — The Soviet against Jews in the Soviet Union
government intensified its anti- and school children were told in
Israel propaganda March 11 with their classes of the situation of
an attack in Izvestia, official gov- the Jews in Russia today. Izvestia,
ernment organ, charging Israel taking issue with the programs in
with joining in the "imperialist" Israel on the treatment of Jews
cold war against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union, strongly at-
at the instigation of the World tacked the "ruling circles" in Is-
International Women's Council Urges World Law
Permitting Departure, Return to Land of Origin
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
GENEVA — The International
Council of Jewish Women, which
has consultative status before the
United Nations Commission on
Human Rights, appealed to the
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rael and implied that the campaign
on Soviet treatment of Jews is
financed in various countries by
the United States.
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Russian-Language Weekly
Starts Publication in Israel
. JERUSALEM (JTA) — A. pri-
vately-owned publishing firm began
publication last weekend of a
R u s s i a n-language weekly. ; the-
Tribune, which will have eight
pages per issue.
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March 17, 1967
Soviet Book on Anti-Semitism
Indicts Ukrainian Nationalists
LONDON (ZINS)—The first book against anti-Semitism to be
published in the Soviet Union since 1931 has appeared in Kiev.
It is also the first Soviet book devoted exclusively to anti-Semitism
during World War II.
Publication of the book "Anti-Semitic Activities of the Ukrainian
Nationalists," which is written in the Ukrainian language, is reported
from Kiev in "Folkshtime," the Warsaw Yiddish newspaper, which
states that the book is designed as an answer to certain Ukrainian
leaders in the U.S. and Canada who are trying to "whitewash"
crimes against the Jews during the Nazi occupation.
It cites documentary proof of war-time crimes of Ukrainian
nationalists against Jews in the Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania.
commission Tuesday to adopt dur-
ing the commission's current ses-
sion here a long-pending proposal
calling on all governments to per-
mit to every person the right to
leave his country or return thereto.
The petition did not name the
Soviet Union but was obviously
aimed as a bid to Soviet Russia
to permit emigration of Jews for
reuniting with their families, espe-
cially in Israel.
The petition was voiced in a
statement on behalf of the global
Jewish women's organization by
Mrs. Miriam Warburg. She noted
that the subject, on the agenda
of the commission now, had
been approved in 1963 by the
body's Subcommission on the
Prevention of Discrimination and
Protection of Minorities, but has
never been acted upon "due to
lack of time."
The council's "foremost con-
cern," she told the commission,
"lies in the hardships caused by
the fact that some members of a
family have been permitted to
leave their countries of origin,
while others are prevented from
joining them because they have
been denied the right of exit.
During the past few years, num-
erous cases have been brought to
our attention in which the reunion
of families has been rendered im-
possible in spite of strenuous ef-
forts." She demanded that action
be taken now, before the current
session is adjourned at the end
of March.
More than seven years later
a subcommission proposed the
idea—and after three years_ of
intensive study and broad de-
bate—the United Nations Com-
missit)11 on Human Rights
adopted unanimously a draft UN
Convention, calling for the world-
wide outlawing of religious intol-
erance. The Commission, how-
ever, left to the General Asseni-
bly the task of drafting further
articles for the implementation
of the instrument.
Morris B. Abram, chief repre-
sentative of the United States in
the commission, hailed the action
as "a milestone in the progress of
the human family, which would
not have been possible several
decades ago." The convention calls
for action by all member states of
the United Nations, and by other
states not belonging to the UN,
who would ratify the document,
to "insure equal protection of the
law against promotion of or incite-
ment to religious intolerance or
discrimination on the grounds of
religion or belief."
The commission made progress
last weekend on another item on
its agenda of prime interest to
Jews and others around the world.
This item calls for the elimination
of statutes of limitation on the
prosecution and trial of major war
criminals, meaning those respon-
sible for murder, and on crimes
against humanity. After receiving
a number of amendments to a
draft Convention dealing with that
subject, the Commission set up a
working party to try to coordinate
the various proposals, some of
them differing sharply as to defi-
nition and purpose.
The working party includes three
prominent Jews, all of them rep-
resenting their respective govern-
ments in the Commission. They .
are Prof. Rene Cassin, of France;
Abram who, in a private ca-
pacity, is president of the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee; and Israel
Supreme Court Justice Hahn H.
Cohn. The working party was to
Meet this week and report back
to the full commission, whose
current session is scheduled to con-
clude by the end of this month.
4 Infiltrators Halted by Israel Patrol
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)
TEL AVIV—The Israel army spokesman said Tuesday that an
Israel patrol intercepted a group of four Arab marauders entering Israel
from the Jordanian border near Kfar Saba.
The infiltrators returned to Jordan territory before the patrol
could open fire. The Arabs left behind a container filled with
explosives. Israel filed a complaint with the Jordan-Israel Mixed
Armistice Commission.
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