B - G Sent 'Letter' by Jewish General
in Russia Defending Soviet 'Rescuers •
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JTA
Teletype Wire to The Jewish
News)
JERUSALEM—A Soviet Jewish general sent an "open letter"
to former Premier David Ben-Gurion, protesting Ben-Gurion's state-
ments on the plight of Soviet Jewry, which was published here
Wednesday.
The letter, written in perfect Hebrew and dated March 30 in
Moscow, was sent to the daily newspaper Maariv by ordinary mail
and published by that newspaper. The writer, describing himself
as Lt. Gen. Hirsh Plaskvow, 68, severely criticized "Knesset member
Ben-Gurion" for his statements on Soviet Jewry during his visit to
New York last month.
The letter, signed by the writer in flowing Hebrew handwriting,
asserted that the former premier had compared Soviet policy toward
Jews with that of the Nazis.
The Soviet letter-writer declared that Soviet authorities suc-
ceeded in withdrawing hundreds of thousands of Jews from World
War II combat zones threatened by the advancing German troops
in the invasion of Russia.
He disclosed, in his letter, that he had been born in Minsk, that
he had studied at a yeshiva because his father wanted him to be a
rabbi but that he had chosen to become a soldier, Ile added that
"My son also is an officer in the Soviet army." He said Ben-Gurion's
statements in New York were a "gross slander" with which the
Israeli action "does not identify itself."
Observers Reporting Russian Jews
Maltreated on Requests to Leave
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to The Jewish News)
Union. In prior yeas, Soviet au-
thorities banned all matzo baking
LONDON — Jews in Czernowitz, in state bakeries.
Kishinev and Zhitomir, seeking
In Mexico City, a resolution re-
permission to emigrate to join
questing the Soviet Union to re-
families in Israel and elsewhere,
store to Jews in the . USSR full
are being treated by local bureau- freedoms to enjoy their own cul-
crats in a most offensive and vul- ture, language and literature was
gar manner, reliable observers
adopted Monday by the second
returning from recent visits to Congress of Latin American
those Russian cities have reported Writers.
here.
The observers said- that in many
cases the Soviet officials were Washington Jewish Editor
refusing to accept both the appli- Featured in Daily Paper ,
cation forms and documents testi-
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
fying that the applicants were Washington Post Monday published
members of families broken up a news feature about specialized
during the war period.
sgapers in the national capital
In other cases, applications and
area, singling out the Jewish Week
documents are accepted but the
as distinctive and revealing the
applicants are given to under-
Jewish Week's "desire to become
stand that there is no reason for
a national newspaper."
them to hope that the applica-
The story, by John Adam
tions will be considered and the
Moreau, said the Jewish Week
requests for permission to emi-
"stands apart" from other weeklies
grate granted.
published here because of its as-
On Tuesday, Chief Rabbi Yehuda pirations. Editor Joseph Hochstein
Leib Levin said that two bakeries was quoted as, stating that the
had prepared' and delivered 154,- more Jews become Americanized,
000 pounds of matzo for observant the more they will discover their
Jews in Moscow.
own distinctive heritage. "A na-
The issue of matzo for Passover tional newspaper is needed to as-
observance by Soviet Jews has sist this process," he said.
been a recurring source of criti-
The Jewish Week was established
cism of Soviet policy by Jews and as a family corporation by Hoch-
non-Jews outside of the Soviet stein and his father, Philip Hoch-
stein, senior editor of the New-
house newspaper chain.
Nonsectarian Friends
They bought the old National
of UJA Formed in NY
Jewish Ledger here, which had a
NEW YORK (JTA) — The estab- circulation of only 1.100 when the
lishment of the nonsectarian com- Hochsteins bought it in 1965. Now
mittee for the United Jewish Ap- the Jewish Week has a circulation
peal comprising Christian and Jew- I of 11,000 and young llochstein
ish leaders in all walks of life hopes the figure will be 15,000 with-
in two years.
was announced here Monday.
That means, said Hochstein, that
Honorary chairmen of the group
the
newspaper will be in half the
include former New York Governor
Thomas E. Dewey; U.S. Senators Jewish households in metropolitan
Washington.
Jacob K. Javits and Robert F.
Kennedy; Governor Nelson A.
Rockefeller: Mayor John V. Lind-
say; Franklin`D. Roosevelt, Jr; and
former Mayor Robert F. Wagner.
In a public statement, the non-
sectarian group urged "all mem-
bers of our community" to "make
an investment in humanity by
giving increased support to the
1967 United Jewish Appeal cam-
paign."
The statement asserted the be-
lief that "homelessness and suf-
fering transcend the frontiers of
race, creed and religion" and that
'the needs of the hungry, handi-
capped and ill are the responsibil-
ity of all men of good will."
The statement cites the necessity
for United Jewish Appeal agencies
to help tens of thousands of Jews
in migration "find refuge in Is-
rael, the United States and other
lands where they can build new
lives in freedom."
"Food, clothing, shelter, medical
care, welfare aid, education and vo-
cational training must be provided
by the UJA for them and hundreds
of thousands of others," the state-
ment declared.
Friday, April 7, 1967-9
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Goldberg's Candidacy
a Johnson Ploy—Javits
Tel Aviv Subway Plans Detoured by Economics
NEW YORK — Republican Sen-
ator Jacob K. Javits, in an inter-
view with the New York Times,
said last Friday that he is skepti-
cal of a study being circulated
in Washington that uses statistics
from his 1962 election campaign
to support the theory that a "pres-
tigious Jewish candidate" could
defeat him.
Such a "prestigious Jewish can-
didate" whose name has been
touted in recent weeks is Arthur
Goldberg, U.S. representative to
the United Nations. Goldberg, who
denies that he is a Senatorial can-
didate, has complained that ru-
mors he would run against Sen.
Javits next year were limiting his
usefulness as a diplomat.
Sen. Javits said he considered
the Democratic backers of Gold-
berg are an indication that Presi-
dent Johnson was worried about
winning New York's electoral
votes in 1968.
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — AnotherTel
I Aviv in the course of the next
casualty in the Israeli economic five years. The transport ministry
crisis is the projected subway I now hopes to start on plans for
which was to have been built in I building the subway after 1972.
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Next Israeli Power Plant
to Be Nuclear Facility?
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JERUSALEM — A government
decision that Israel's atomic energy
commission be consulted before
any additional power plants are
built pointed Wednesday to the
possibility that the next power
plant may be a nuclear one.
The commission met here under
the chairmanship of Premier Levi
Eshkol to consider plans to estab-
lish a central nuclear accelerator
at the Dimona reactor in the '
Negev .
F. detailed information please communicate confidentially—direct or
through your Attorney—with MR. PERCY KAPLAN, Director of The
Jewish National Fund, 18414 Wyoming, Detroit, Mich. 48221.
Telephone 864-2767.
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