Community to Call Witness to Brethren's Plight
at 11-idni ■ tw, i ht Vi ■ 11 il for Soviet Jewry on Saturday

Songs and music representing freedom as other groups to prac-
the creative achievements of Rus- Ike and enjoy their religious and
sian .1(!wry will highlight the spe- cultural traditions.
cial - Midnight Vigil" ceremonies
Thousands of the petitions
on behalf of Soviet Jewry sched-
have been distributed through-
tiled 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Sat- ; out the community, and indivi-
Imlay at the Jewish Center.
duals and groups have been
asked to return them personally
The vigil is being presented by
during the vigil program as an
the Jewish Community Council in
expression of the community's
cooperation with the center and
concern for the future of Soviet
organizations affiliated with the
Jewry.
American Jewish Conference on
Another feature of the vigil will
Soviet Jewry.
he the recitation of the poem
. Cantor Reuven Frankel of Con- ! -
Bahl Yar" by Susan Merson.
gregation Shaarey Zedek will sing Written by the non-Jewish Rus-

songs by Milner, Kaminsky and sian poet, Yevtushenko, the poem
Engel. Jewish protests the absence of a monu-
composers
w h o
ment at Babi Yar. a site near Kiev
captured in song
where tens of thousands of Jews
the spirit of Jew-
were killed by
ish life during
the Nazis during
zarist times.
the last two days
Some of these
of September
son's, though
1941.
written decades •
Miss Merson is
ago, reflect many -
a member of the
of the same prob-
Center Theater
lems and difficul-
and has perform-
ties currently en- Cantor Frankel
ed with Van-
egaintered by Jews in the Soviet t g h ue a r d A
!
Union. Cantor Frankel will he ac-
American.
companied by Bella Goldberg at Drama Festival
Miss Merson

the piano. • and the Cranhrook Summer Thea-1
Dr. Samuel Krohn. president of ter. The vigil program will also
the Jewish Community Council. include a special candle lighting
will welcome those attending the ceremony and will close with a
vigil ceremonies and accept peti- special prayer for Soviet Jewry
tions on behalf of Soviet Jewry. presented by Dr. Leon Fram of !
which will he sent to the Ameri- Temple Israel.
The local program is part of a
can Jewish Conference. The yeti-
lions call for the complete eradi- nationwide effort calling attention
cation of anti-Semitic practices in to the status of Soviet Jews. Simi-
the Soviet Union and demand that tar demonstrations Saturday will
Soviet Jewry be given the same be conducted in Jewish communi-

ties throughout the country.
American Jewish leaders who
have traveled to the Soviet Union
nave indicated that these demon-

Collegiate Journal Probes
Soviet Anti-Semitism

One of the least publicized prob-
lems in the Soviet Union today is
the flagrant anti-Semitism which
permeates all aspects of the Com-
munist regime.
In the May-June issue of the
Intercollegiate R e v i e w, Frank
Coakley examines in depth the
background of Soviet anti-Semitism
and the various forms this preju-
dice has taken. Coakley, a long-
time student of minority prob-
lems, is presently an editor at the
Educational Test in g Service,
Princeton. N.J.
The Intercollegiate Review, pub-
lished by the Intercollegiate
Studies Institute, Inc., is read by
an audience of 34,000 students and
professors in the United States and
Europe.

THE DETROIT JEWISH HEWS
8—Friday, April 28, 1967

strations in the United States have
been effective. and most impor-
tant. that news of these protests
has reassured Russia's 3,000,000
Jews that they have not been for-
gotten.

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