arade, Program Sunday to Dramatize
Let Soviet Jews Come to \Y,!
Ilavor Saes at Demonstration Teens Concern for Jews in Soviet Union
16—Friday, October 10, 1969
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS p
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NEW YORK (JTM—Mayor John the auspices of Ow CJCongress'
V. Lindsay last week called on the eastern region.
In Toronto, 4.000 youths and
Soviet Union to allow its Jews,
who he said. were trapped ••h a lf. adults thronged Nathan Phillips
free and half-slave" to come to square• named for the deceased
New York City, "where they will Jewish mayor• in a Simhat Torah
find the kind of freedom you rally and demonstration for Rus-
cannot grant." sian Jews. At a convocation at the
University of Toronto, they heard
Asserting that "we are all broth- Rabbi Ilillel Levin of New York
ers of the Soviet Jews," the mayor and a student deScribe the condi-
spoke at a Simhat Torah demon- •
tion of Russian Jewry.
stration at Dag Hammarskjold
A torchlight parade and the
Plaza near the United Nations, at dedication of a municipal site in
which New York's Jewish coin Denver, which the city and county
munity expressed its solidarity have agreed to develop as a me-
with Soviet Jews. morial park for victims of the Babi
"We say to the Soviet Union— Yar massacre by the Nazis, high-
if you cannot let our brothers live lighted a Simhat Torah demonstra-
in freedom, then let our brothers tion in Denver.
go," he told the rally. "If you
cannot grant them the right to 12
worship by their own lights, then
let our brothers go. If you cannot
permit them to raise their children • LONDON (JTA)— About 12,000
by the faith of their fathers, then Moscow Jews sang and danced on
let our brothers go. If you cannot the quarter-mile long Arkhipov St-
let them think, speak, pray and outside the Choral Synagogue last
live as freemen, then let our broth- Saturday night in a spontaneous
celebration of Simhat Torah. Eye-
ers go."
witnesses said that youngsters out-
The demonstration was organized
numbered the middle aged and
by the New York Conference on
elderly. They sang traditional Jew-
Soviet Jewry and the Studert
ish songs, including "Hava Nagila:'
Struggle for Soviet Jewry. The
and some groups chanted. "I am a
event was organized as the Amer-
Jew, we are all Jews."
ican counterpart of the annual
The normally quiet street near
practice of young Soviet Jews who
the headquarters of the central
mark Simhat Torah with singing
committee of the Soviet Commu-
and dancing in the streets outside
nist Party was closed to traffic by
the Central Synagogue in Moscow.
police. There was no interference
Similar celebrations a r e being with the celebration which has be-
sponsored by the American Jewish come a Jewish tradition in Moscow
Conference for Soviet Jewry in 59 on Simhat Torah. But some elderly
other American cities.
Jews told foreign observers that
Seven religious processions bear- they doubted if celebrations of the
ing palm branches and torches holiday were allowed on the same
crossed Hammarskjold Plaza, each scale in other Soviet cities with
in behalf of a selected Russian large Jewish populations like Kiev,
Jewish community—Moscow, Len- Kharkov and Odessa.
One elderly Jew reportedly com-
ingrad, Kiev. Odessa, Riga, Vilna
and Tashkent. Mayor Lindsay leJ plained to visitors that Moscow's
300,000 Jews had no central meet-
the first procession.
ing place outside of the synagogue.
In Ottawa a delegation of Jew- The young people learned of the
ish students from two universi- — _
ties met with Mitchell Sharp,
Project Outcry 1969, a teen - spin-
sored protest against Soviet anti-
Semitism, will take place Sunday,
starting at 1:30 with a protest
parade of cars from the 10 Mile
branch of the Jewish Center. It
will proceed to the Jewish Center
at Curtis and Meyers where the
protest program will start at 3 p. m.
The program will feature the
showing of slides and a talk by
Karen Goren, 17, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Goren of Birming-
ham. Karen was in Russia this
summer on a six-week study tour
of Eastern Europe as one of 34
teen participants in the Foreign
Study League tour.
Karen is president of the Young Shalom Synagogue and the signing
Dancers' Guild, of protest letters.
sponsored by the
Jewish Center,
and an officer in
Dora Savage Bnai
Brith Girls.
A senior at
Bloomfield Hills
Andover High
School, Karen will
convey her im-
pressions about
the Soviet Jews,
Karen
as a result of her visit.
The protest program also will
feature singing, a sociodrama, a
reading from "The Jews of Si-
lence" by Elie Wiesel, remarks by
Rabbi Leonard S. Cahan of Adas
000 Celebra to in Moscow
2 , 000
holiday by word of mouth because
no Jewish calendars are published
in the Soviet Union and the press
never reports the event of reli-
gious holidays.
The outpouring of emotion was
seen by observers as a demonstra-
tion of identification with Israel
by some Jews - or simply of Jewish
identity by others. Moscow has no
formal Jewish schools but people
in the Simhat Torah crowd said
many youngsters studied Hebrew
in private groups.
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happy note with Israeli dancing.
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affairs, and asked him to relay
to Soviet Foreign Minister An-
drei A. Gromyko, now visiting
Canada, their concern over the
plight of Soviet Jewry.
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The students from Sir George
Williams and McGill universities
were received by Sharp at about
the time Gromyko was arriving
here as a guest of the govern-
ment.
Sharp promised to mention the
students' views at a meeting with
In their
the Soviet diplomat.
memorandum, the students said
that the Soviet government was
using Russian Jews as "scape-
goats" for internal difficulties. In
the memorandum, the students
said admission of Jews to Soviet
universities was by special quota.
The delegation presented Sharp
with a petition on the problem of
Soviet Jewry, containing 10,000
signatures by Jewish and non-
Jewish students. for presentation
to United Nations Secretary-Gen-
eral U Thant.
Over 5,000 members of Mont-
real's Jewish community repre-
senting all major communal or-
ganizations in the city assem-
bled Sunday night in Dominion
Square to demonstrate solidarity
with Russian Jewry and to ap-
peal for equal treatment to be
accorded them as to all other
ethnic and national groups in
Russia.
The group marched through city
streets to the Soviet consulate
where Cantor Mendel Fogel re-
cited a prayer which was followed
by singing and dancing with the
Torah. The demonstration was or-
by students and youth
gropp4,.sypagogpes, _fraternal and
cOmmtmity organizations under
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