Soviet Jews Take Heart From Liberal Writers
Who Speak Out Against Govt., Says Observer
TEL AVIV (JTA)—An American
Jewish writer who arrived here
after a visit to Russia said Mon-
day that Soviet Jews no longer are
afraid to complain publicly of their
grievances against the Soviet
regime.
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man of New York. the liberal
trend among young Soviet writers
and poets has encouraged Jews to
voice protests against alleged dis
crimination in universities, public
institutions and other areas of life
in Russia.
Schneiderman, who was enter
tained here by the Israeli execu
tive of the World Jewish Congress
said Soviet Jews warned against
exaggerations of their difficulties.
They are not in physical danger
and there is no noticeable mass
anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union
or what is called "street corner"
anti-Semitism, the report said. But
he claimed that he gets the im-
pression that almost all Soviet
Jewish youth want to go to Israel
and hopes that the pressure of
world public opinion will influence
the regime to permit their emi-
gration.
A group of Russian Jewish
emigres charged Monday that
Israel was not doing enough to
alert world opinion to the condi-
tion of Jews in the Soviet Union.
The complaint was made at a
press conference called by
"Maoz,•" an organization of Jew-
, ish immigrants from Russia.
The group alleged that the Is-
raeli Foreign Ministry had adopt-
ed an erroneous policy of "play-
ing down" any campaign on be-
half of 'Russian Jewry. They said
such a policy was probably based
on "wrong information."
According to the group, the
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the hearts of those who preach in anger, and
may it bring encouragement to all who aspire
for a world without rancor.
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Kremlin is susceptible to the pres-
sure of world public opinion which
could be brought to bear to permit
the emigration of Jews from Rus-
sia. They urged the Israeli press
to write more on the subject
which, they'said. would be picked
up by foreign newspapers and thus
alert world opinion.
In Bogota. Colombia, tempered
criticism of the Soviet Union for
cultural and religious repression
of its Jewish minority drew an
angry response from Soviet sour-
ces Tuesday.
The criticism was voiced at a
two-day conference on the condi
Lion of Soviet Jews which drew
university professors, clergymen.
prize-winning writers and former
diplomats and political leaders
from 11 Latin American countries.
Most of the delegates were of
leftist persuasion and many had
visited the Soviet Union. They
agreed that Jews in Russia suffer.
ed under restrictions that did not
apply to other minority groups in
that country. In urging that those
restrictions be lifted, they empha-
sized that their intention was not
to criticize the Soviet government
but to point out that discrimina-
tion against Jews was a contradic-
tion of Socialist thought and ran
contrary to the Soviet constitution.
Before the conference closed
Tuesday. reaction came in the
form of letters from Moscow
addressed to the "Citizens of
Colombia" which called the gath-
ering a "propagandistic farce"
engineered by leaders of Jewish
organizations.
One letter purportedly signed by
several distinguished Soviet Jews
headed by Prof. Evsei Liberman
said "We protest against this pro-
vocative action which seeks, we
are convinced, the unworthy end
of denigrating the Soviet home-
land." In addition to the letters.
the Soviet news agency Novosti
distributed pamphlets to the dele-
gates in Yiddish and Spanish de-
nouncing charges that Jews suf-
fer discrimination in the USSR.
Despite the protests, the dele-
gates agreed to present a petition
to the Soviet Embassy urging
Moscow to grant Russian Jews the
right to practice their religion and
culture in accordance with the
Universal Declaration of Human
Rights and to emigrate from Rus
sia if they wish to.
Jewish Labor Committee
Aids U.S. Indian Youth
MINNEAPOLIS (JTA)—A schol-
arship and orientation program for
American Indian youth, sponsored
by Labor's Committee for Indian
Youth in cooperation with the Jew-
ish Labor Committee, is helping
provide academic or vocational
training for large numbers of
youngsiers living on reservations.
According to Louis E. Berman,
regional director of the Jewish
Labor Committee, there is a de-
crease in high school dropouts
among Indian youth participating
in the program and a correspond-
ent increase in the number who go
on to higher education.
A report from Erwin Mittel-
holtz, Indian guidance consultant
of the state department of educa-
tion, said that over 243 Indian
high school graduates were at-
tending colleges and universities
this year on the scholarship pro-
gram and over 180 were taking
vocational training. Since 1958,
over 100 Indians earned bachelor
degrees and nearly 20 of them
their masters degrees.
Each year Indian youth who are
high school seniors visit the Twin
Cities and tour vocational schools,
colleges, hospitals and potential
sources of employment. Of 34 In-
dian girls and 17 boys who made
the tour last fall, all went on to
higher education. Not one of the
students who made the trip
dropped out, and all who applied
for advanced work beyond high
school were accepted, Mittelholtz
renorted.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
18—Friday, September 12, 1969
Security, Defense Ability Israelis' Chief Concerns
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israelis' were education, immigration and
greatest concerns are national se- the absorption of immigrants,
birth rate and family planning, the
curity* and the capability of the restriction of activities on the Sab-
nation's defense forces, according bath, and the activities and rela-
to a public opinion poll released tionships between the various po-
Tuesday. The poll was taken last litical factions in the countries.
Economic questions were at the
June and July.
It showed that 90 per cent of bottom of the list.
the persons asked to state their
"A man who works with his
principal concern mentioned . se-
curity; 86 per cent said the armed bands is a laborer; a man who
forces and its characteristics and works with his hands and brain is
capabilities: while 77 per cent a craftsman; but a man who works
spoke of Israel's status in relation with his hands and his brain and
his heart is an artist."
to other nations.
—Louis Niser.
Lower on the list of concerns
gsraef g3ond
Con greg ational and
Woly a y
cJ(onor
eNoll
PARTICIPATING CONGREGATIONS
SYNAGOGUE
RABBI
Adas Shalom
Beth Abraham
Beth Achim
Jacob E. Segal
Israel P. Halpern
Beth Hillel
Beth Moses
Beth Shalom
Beth Tefilo-
Emanuel Tikvoh
B'nai David
B'Nai Israel-
Beth Yehudah
B'Nai Jacob
B'nai Moshe
B'nai Zion
David Ben Nuchim
Ezras Achim (Turover
Temple)
Mishkan Israel-
Nusach Harie
Lubavitcher Center
Shaarey Shomayim
Shaarey Zedek
Shomrey Emunah
Temple Beth El
Temple Emanuel
Temple Israel
Young Israel
Greenfield
Benjamin H. Gorrelick
Milton Arm
Joel J. Litke
A. Irving Schnipper
Mordecai Halpern
Sigmund Lowenthal
Franklin Levy
Albert Rosenblum
Morris Dorn
Max Sosin
Leiser Levin
Hoyim Donin
David M. Lieberman
I. Isaac
Moses Lehrman
Solomon H. Gruskin
Chaskel Grubner
Meyer Levin
Charles Vikser
Donald J. Sachs
Morritz Schubiner
Harry Rott
David Bakst
Jacob Nosanchuk
Jacob Kranz
Leo Y. Goldman
Isadore Starr
Joseph Balberor
and Meyer Terebelo
Dr. Samuel Krohn
Irwin Groner
S. Zacharias%
Robert Canvasser
Dr. Richard C. Hertz
Mrs. Joseph Meltzer
Milton Rosenbaum
Jock Caminker
Leon From, Robert Syme
Samuel H. Prero
Sanford Eisenberg
Eric Greenbaum
Emanuel Mittelman
Young Israel
Northwest
Young Israel
Oak Woods
PRESIDENT
Julius E. Anal
Sam Kaufer
Dr. Manuel Feldman
James I. Gordon
Phillip Stollmon
GUEST SPEAKERS
DR. MARNIN FEINSTEIN
ELEAZAR LIPSKY
HENRY LEVY
David I. Berris, David J. Cohen, Judge Lawrence Gubow, Judge
Charles Kaufman, Judge Ira G. Kaufman, Judge Nathan J. Kaufman,
Louis Levine, Councilman Mel J. Ravitz, Rabbi Jacob E. Segal,
Sidney Shevitz, Max Sosin, Harry Weinsaft, William J. Weinstein,
Melvin Weisz.
CONGREGATIONAL AND HIGH HOLY DAY COUNCIL
PHILLIP STOLLMAN
NORMAN ALLAN
MORRIS J. BRANDWINE
JUDGE NATHAN J. KAUFMAN
MAX SOSIN
Chairman
Co-Chairman
Co-Chairman
Co-Chairman
Co-Chairman
In addition to Speakers, Presidents and Rabbis of participating
gregations, the committee includes:
Con•
Cantor Shobtai Ackerman, Rev. Hyman .1. Adler, Cantor Simon Ber-
monis, Norman Bloke, Hyman M. Beale, Harry Cohen, Norman Cottle",
Jonas Dworin, Isaac M. Faxstein, Dr. Manuel Feldman, William Genser,
Nathaniel H. Goldstick, Joe Gorman, Sam Gottlieb, Menashe Haar,
Morris Korbol, Joseph Katchke, Samuel Katkin, Karl Katkowsky, Judge
Ira G. Kaufman, Otto Kaufman, Cantor Louis Klein, Jack Kraizman.,
Sol Lessman, William Liberson, Hyman Lipsitz, Joke Moskovitz, Max
Nosonchuk, Sol Nusbaum, Max Ostrow, Abraham Pasternak, Samuel
Platt, Dr. and Mrs. Harry Portnoy, N. P. Rossen, Julius Rotenberg,
Dr. Robert Schloff, David Schoichit, Jack Shenkman, Joseph Shifmon.
Ben W. Siegal, Harold Sable, Max Stanton, Herman Strassburger,
Meyer Terebelo, Henry Thumin, Zvi Tomkiewicz.