Soviet Govt. Holds Day of Protest
Against 'Israel Aggression'; Drive
Joined by Jewish Generals, Rabbi
LONDON (JTA) — Soviet au- pledged unswerving Soviet sup-
port to the Arab peoples "in
thorities designated Monday as a
their just fight against Israeli
day of protest against "Israeli
aggression."
aggression" in the Soviet Union.
The announcement climaxed a
Rabbi LevM, who visited the
mounting anti-Israel campaign in United States with official per-
which some Soviet Jews, includ- mission in 1968, was quoted by
ing Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin, of Izvestia as accusing Jewish cap-
Moscow's Choral Synagogue, have italists in Israel and the U.S. of
denounced Israel and assailed re- trying to keep the truth about the
ports that Soviet Jews want to Soviet Union from Jewish workers.
emigrate there as "Zionist prop- While he did not deny outright
aganda."
that anti-Semitism existed in the
The campaign, started some USSR, Rabbi Levin said "Only
weeks ago with official encourage-
ment, is being conducted mainly
in the press. Newspapers have
published anti-Israel letters from
persons with obviously Jewish
names.
Two Soviet generals, both Jew-
ish, have added their voices to the
campaign with statements of sup-
port for the Arabs and warnings
that Israel might one day find its
army in retreat.
The officially sanctioned cam-
paign is apparently Moscow's
counter-attack against claims
made in Israel and by Jews in
Western countries that there is
a rising Zionist or pro-Israel
movement among Jews in the
USSR. In recent months, letters
purportedly written by Jews in
Moscow, the Georgian Republic,
Riga and other centers which
assail Soviet treatment of Jews,
have found their way into Israeli
and Western hands.
The Soviet authorities are ob-
viously concerned over the im-
pression these letters and charges
of Soviet anti-Semitism are mak-
ing abroad. The anti-Israel cam-
paign has received tremendous
publicity in the two main Soviet
organs widely read abroad — the
government newspaper Izvestia
and the Communist Party organ,
Pravda.
The papers have urged Soviet
Jews to speak out against Israel
and Zionism. The United States ]
has been attacked as Israel's chief
supporter.
One prominent Russian Jew to
speak out was Aron Vergelis, ,
editor of the Soviet Union's only
Yiddish language journal, Sovietish
Heimland. Vergelis called Zionism
"the enemy of the Jews" because
it creates "friction between them."
Lt. Gen. David A. Dragunsky,
chief of the Soviet military school,
said in a Pravda article Saturday
that "From the bottom of my
the revolution in Russia, only
Soviet power opened to them (the
Jews) all roads to happiness eqJal
to citizens of any other nationality
of our country."
Referring to his American visit,
Rabbi Levin said according to
Izvestia that "There is no doubt
that in certain circles in the
U.S.A. mainly among big capital-
ists and rich Jews, it would be
disadvantageous if the Jewish
workers in America knew the truth
about the Soviet Union."
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
36—Friday, March 6, 1970
Reform or Conservative-Converted Jew
to Undergo Simple Conversion in Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Is-
raeli Chief Rabbinate, which re-
fuses to recognize non-Orthodox
rabbis, indicated that it was will-
ing to relax conversion procedures
for non-Jewish immigrants who
were converted to Judaism abroad
by Reform or Conservative rabbis.
The Ashkenazic chief rabbi, Isser
Untermann, told the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency that such persons
would have to undergo a greatly
simplified conversion process when
they arrived in Israel. It would
consist of a declaration of their
willingness to accept "the burdens
of Judaism" and immersion in a
ritual bath in the presence of three
Orthodox rabbis.
Rabbi Untermann said • that an
American or Canadian w o m a n
migrant who was converted abroad
by an "unrecognized" rabbi would
be registered as Jewish by na-
tionality under the amendment to
the Law of Return which the Knes-
set is expected to pass shortly.
However, he said, unless she sub-
mitted herself to the conversion
process he described, "difficulties"
would arise if her children wanted
to marry Jews.
It is a fixed rule with the wise
never to defend themselves with
the pen.—Baltasar Gracian.
Your
humble
servant!
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heart I protest against the policy
of the Israeli aggressors, against
the imperialist, predatory designs,
against the activity of those who'
are dragging the people of Israel
into the abyss of war."
Gen. Dragunsky, a distinguished
tank commander whose family was
tortured and killed by the Nazis
in World War H, warned Israeli
Premier Golda Meir that she was
"playing with fire" and Israeli
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan
that his armies might be defeated.
"I should like to remind him
(Dayan) that the military dic-
tionary . . . knows such words
as defense, retreat and flight. It
might well be that the Israel army
will have to use them some time,"
he wrote.
Col. Gen. Aleksandr Tsirlin. a
doctor of military science, ap-
parently Jewish, wrote in Izves-
tia that "The claims of Zionist
leaders, holding power in Tel
Aviv, to represent Jews of the
whole world, is a mean idological
subversion." lie attacked the
theory of the "exclusiveness of
the Jewish nation advocated by
Zionists" which he likened to
II itte r's racist concepts. He
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