B - G Sent 'Letter' by Jewish General in Russia Defending Soviet 'Rescuers • (Direct 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 (Direct JTA Teletype Wire 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. A PERSONAL PROJECT IN ISRAEL can be established —NOW by a BEQUEST to the JEWISH NATIONAL FUND Next Israeli Power Plant to Be Nuclear Facility? (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) 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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