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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
6—Friday, August 1, 1969
Soviet Track Team UJA m akes Major Execut lye Chang ,'Mitensa—•--•
In other significant changes, Mar-
NEW YORK—Major changes in-
Met in LA With
volving the top professional leader- tin Peppercorn, national field direc-
ship of the United Jewish Appeal tor of the United Jewish Appeal,
Bid on Jews' Behalf were
announced by Edward Gins- was named to the new post of na-
LOS ANGELES (JTA)—A Soviet berg of Cleveland, UJA general tional campaign chairman.
track team which competed here
chairman.
Marc Tabatchnik, director of re-
recently with American and British
Herbert A. Friedman. executive . search and development, who came O
athletes was approached by several
vice-chairman,
has
been
appointed
to the UJA after many years of
Jewish groups on behalf of Russian
to the position of executive chair- service with the Joint Distribution
Jews.
Committee, has been appointed di-
The groups were seeking religious man.
Irving Bernstein, assistant execu- rector of systems and personnel
and cultural freedom for their co-
tive
vice
chairman,
has
been
ele-
and assistant to the executive vice
religionists, the right to emigrate to
chairman.
Israel and protested the arrest and
conviction of Boris Kocbubiyevsky,
Peter Coiwin, associate national
a yonung engineer now in prison
field director, has been appointed
for allegedly slandering the Soviet
associate national campaign di-
state and social system.
tional campaign director.
The Soviet athletes, housed at the
Ernest N. Spickler, director of '
University of Southern California,
the Young Leadership Cabinet since
were confronted by some 50 mem-
its inception in 19€3. has been ele-
bers of the California Students for
vated to the position of associate
Soviet Jewry who presented a Rus-
national
campaign director.
sian-language letter, also addressed
to the Soviet government, and en-
H. David Weinstein, formerly
gaged in debate with several of
personal assistant to the executive
vice chairman and Israel Educa-
them.
A telegram of protest was hand-
tion Fund administrative assistant,
delivered to Vladimir Popov, head
has been appointed to the newly
coach, by the Student Struggle for
created post, of director of over-
Soviet Jewry, a New York-based
Bernstein
Friedman
seas missions.
organization. And a telegram was
Joel Friedman, of Atlanta, has
position
of
executive
vatd
to
the
Khomokoff,
director
sent to Leonid
been named assistant director of
of the Russian Amateur Athletic vice chairman.
the young leadership division.
Organization. by the Bay Area
Council on Soviet Jewry in San
Francisco.
Members of the California stu-
dents group, representing seven
colleges, confronted the Russians
By JESS SILVER
and debated with them for about
(Copyright 1969, JTA, Inc.)
two hours, the organization re-
Steve Sandler of New York's 92nd
ported. Their letter demanded
Street YMHA won his fourth na-
Kochubiyevsky's immediate re-
tional
AAU one-wall handball cham-
lease from prison, cessation of
pionship recently at Coney Island.
cultural and religious persecu-
It wasn't easy. A 28-year-old form-
tion, and emigration for Russian
er high school basketball player
Jews.
from
Brooklyn, Sandler was forced
Three spokesmen for the athletes
were said to have pleaded ignor- to defeat his final-round opponent
twice
to make his victory claim
ance of the first and third points
and denied that Jews were perse- stand up. The title match was re-
cuted in the Soviet Union. One cited played when a protest was allowed
the existence of the Jewish republic on a referee's ruling.
Sandler repeated his first triumph
of Birobidjan as evidence for his
victory in the
argument and said that Jews who with a 21-16, 21-17
second
match. Only Victor Hersh-
wanted rights similar to those
granted to Ukranians and Armen- kowitz has won more AAU one-wall
ians would have to gel to Birobidjan titles than Sandler. Marty Decatur
to capture the
to get them. Yehuda Ben Russi. a teamed with Sandler
UCLA and demonstration leader, doubles crown. • • •
replied that religious, cultural and
Jewish swordsmen won two of
national ties do not exist between
Jews and Birobidjan because of the the four individual titles at the na-
tional
fencing championships in
"arbitrary nature" of the assign-
ment of that area to Jews, the or- Van Nuys, Calif. Olympian Steve
Netburn of New York City gained
ganization said.
When one athlete was asked if the epee crown and 21-year-old Carl
Soviet Jews could emigrate to Is- , Borack captured the foil event.
Veteran Al Axelrod was the run-
rael at will, he reportedly said. '
ner-up to Borack, and Joe Elliot
"any Soviet citizen who wishes to
finished sixth in the foils.
do so may emigrate from the
USSR." The demonstrators did not
R. F. Bensinger of Chicago and
see the coach who told an interme- i
diary that he was in Los Angeles Phoenix. former chairman of the
board
of Brunswick Corp., has been
for an athletic event, not a political
Bowling
forum. Ben Russi emphasized that named to the American
Hall of Fame. Now an
the protest was directed against Congress
owner and breeder of race horses,
Soviet policy, not the team.
Bensinger's great - grandfather
founded Brunswick, a pioneer in
German Trade Unionist the manufacture of billiard and
Vows Fight Against NPD bowling equipment.
I-Wall Handball,
Fencing Champs 1
ofid-
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Svetland Grinberg has become
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and her teammate took the wom-
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Union at the world table tennis
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Tel Aviv Cadets Graduat
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