Appeals From Soviet Jewry Mounting in Intensity
LONDON — The plight of a 33- struggle in the way "we under- I The Knesset debate on Kazakov international initiatives on behalf Hershberg, president of the organ-
year-old Soviet Jew, who claims stand it should be conducted, we wound up with five agenda mo- of Soviet Jews but would restrict ization. The statement protesting
he was persecuted for his religious will abstain from our normal work tions being submitted to commit- "private initiatives" in that direc- treatment of Soviet J e w r y, de-
beliefs and dismissed from his job and carry on the struggle openly. tee. They were introduced by MKs tion. The guidelines were adopted clared the Soviet Union "wants
in Riga, Latvia, was described in shouting aloud what we have to of the Gahal (Herut-Liberal align- on the recommendations of a spe- to destroy the spiritual life of the
a letter to UN Secretary General tell the -world," he said.
ment), the Free Center, the Na- cial committee headed by Minis- Jewish people behind the Iron Cur-
Kazakov ended his fast last tional Religious Party and the ter Without-Portfolio Israel Galili. tain."
U Thant, just made public here.
It was one of three letters sent week at the urging of his father , Labor Party alignment.
The guidelines provide for meas-
In Washington, Sen. Hugh Scott,
to well-known personages.
Joseph. The elder Kazakov tele
Speaking for the latter, Labor ures to ensure minority rights for Republican of Pennsylvania, said
The writer, Mendel G. Gordin, phoned his appeal from Moscow Party Secretary General Arye those who want to leave.
that
the U.S. should support a
a medical laboratory supervisor, to the Israeli UN mission. Th e Eliav said efforts on behalf of
However, the cabinet reportedly
said he had been dismissed for message was conveyed to his son Soviet Jewry would be more suc- will have Israeli representatives declaration of freedom for the
Soviet
Jews, allowing them to
asking for a day off for Yom Kip- by Ambassador Tekoah.
cessful if they are centrally direct- abroad make it clear to anyone leave the country if they wish.
Sperling 's charges against the ed. He said this would prevent
pur. He added that he had been
who
consults
them,
which
courses
Scott,
Senate minority leader,
threatened with criminal proceed. Israeli government apparently men of good will from being mis-
ings for "parasitism" if he did not were prompted by a cabinet de- led and allying themselves to fac- of action are sanctioned by Jeru- expressed his views in a letter to
find a job and had been thwarted cision last Thursday to restrict tors with which Israel does not salem and which are not. the University of Pennsylvania's
The World Federation of Jew- Hillel Foundation. "The tragic
in attempts to emigrate to Israel. "private initiatives" on behalf of want to be associated. He did not
ish Fighters, Concentration Camp plight of the Jewish people in the
Other letters were sent to John Soviet Jews while continuing in- enlarge on that remark.
inmates
and Nazi Victims sent a Soviet Union demands that we con-
Gollan, general secretary of the ternational initiatives on an offi-
Other MKs insisted that the cable of encouragement
to Kaza- tinue and increase our efforts to
British Communist part y, and cial level.
government . declare its unquali- kov. The group, which is based bring the actions of the Soviet
Marcolino Candau, secretary gen-
The proposal was adopted over
f ied so ari y with acts such as
in Tel Aviv, declared its solidar- Union into national and worldwide
eral of the World Health Organi- the opposition of Haim Landau,
that of Kazakov. Zevulun Ham- ity "with your struggle for the im- focus," Scott wrote.
zation. They were Sent to Emanuel the minister of development who
mer, speaking for the Orthodox migration of your family and the
Litvinoff, a writer on Jewish af- represents the militant Herut fac-
"Soviet Jews can no longer suf-
National Religious Party, de-
fairs.
tion. But no objections were raised manded that Israel bestow auto- Jews of the Soviet Union."
fer in silence. Their plea for jus-
Gordin said his superiors sug- by another Herut member of the
The
municipality
of
Natanya
de-
Lice,
smuggled to the Human
matic citizenship on every Jew
gested in May 1969 that he resign cabinet, Minister of Transport,
in the Soviet Union who express- cided to make Kazakov a freeman Rights Commission of the United
from his job after his application Ezer Weizman. (Jewish students
of
the
city
in
recognition
of
his
Nations,
deserves our support,"
es a desire to go to Israel.
to emigrate had been refused. On at Witwatersrand University in
struggle for the right of Russian he said.
Later in the week, the cabinet . Jews to emigrate. Mayor Oved
Sept. 23, he was dismissed and Johannesburg and Cape Town
The trial of 19 students who
on Oct. 31 was threatened with University held a one-day fast decided as a matter of principle Men Ami sent a cable to Kazakov chained themselves to the gates of
prosecution unless he found a job. in solidarity with Kazakov. They that Israel would continue to take informing him of the city council's the Soviet Embassy last Decem-
• • •
action.
He was refused work wherever signed a petition addressed to
ber to protest the plight of Soviet
he went, Gordin wrote.
the Soviet government urging full
In Sao Paulo, Brazil, an un- Jewry was postponed in the Dis-
He eventually found work, but rights for Jews including the right
precedented declaration of con-
trict of Columbus general sessions
was worned that he would be dis- to leave for Israel.)
cern with the plight of Soviet court until May 13.
missed if he refused to work on
Kazakov slept in a trailer pro-
Jewry has been issued by Bra- ! Charges were brought against the
a religious holiday.
vided by friends and spent days
zilian Jew r y in a 1,500-word students, all but one Jewish one,
Ambassador Yosef Tekoah,
en a cot at the Isaiah Wall fac-
manifesto given wide dissemina- by the district government at t the
chief Israeli representative to
ing the UN buildings. He was
tion in the new media.
,r e q u e s t of the Soviet Union
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Miss
the UN, met with- U Thant to
visited by Israeli consular offi-
The detailed document, released through the State Department.
present him with a letter from
cials and was examined several Angie Brooks, president of the by the Confederation of Brazilian Eighteen of the students wore
16 Soviet Georgian Jewish fam-
times by the consulate physician. United Nations General Assembly , Jews, attacked Soviet policy tow- name tags identifying them as •
ilies endeavoring to emigrate to '
and its Jews as anti-Semitic and representing one of the 18 Jew-
During the day he was surround- disclosed Tuesday that she has
Israel asserting that "100 days ed by as many as 200 members passed on to Kosygin requests discriminatory, scored it for seek- , ish families in Soviet Georgia
have elapsed" since their origin- of Jewish youth groups carrying from former Soviet Jews to le t ing to destroy Israel, deplored I who sent a petition to the United
al plea for: assistance and that signs demanding that the Russians their relatives join them in Israel . the self-disparagement of 52 high- Nations late last year, asking
She said there has been no re - ranking Soviet Jews, and called to be allowed to emigrate to
"our situation has not changed."
allow his family to emigrate.
The envoy emphasized to Thant,
Israel.
A group of youthful members of sponse from the Soviet Govern - for freedom of emigration. Con-
ment
so far but she hoped it federation president Moyses Kauff-
that a covering letter from the the militant Jewish D e f ense
The students were charged with
families stressed the necessity for League went into the offices of would act on some of the specific mann spoke personally to the press violation of a 1938 D.C. law which
the secretary general "to fulfill the .United States Mission and de- cases she brought to its attention. here.
bars demonstrating or picketing
his duty" in t heir plight. The manded a statement of solidarity I Miss Brooks noted that the SI-
In Rio deJaneiro, Samuel Mala- within 5C0 feet of an embassy. The
families urged immediate action with the youth. Rabbi Meir Ka-
viet Union ratified the portion mud, president of the local branch, ' six lawyers for the students seek
"because time is short." Tekoah hane, head of the JDL, said later
of the UN's civil rights and free- met with the Brazilian Press As- to base their defense a challenge
also submitted to Thant a letter he was received by U.S. Ambas-
dems convention stipulating that sociation. - to the constitutionality of the D.C.
from a 50-year-old Georgian USSR sador Charles Yost, and that Yost
persons are entitled to choose
The manifesto was up to date on law, which was passed to prevent
citizen charging that his visa to promised to issue a statement their own place of residence.
facts regarding the situation of demonstrations outside the Ger-
emigrate to Israel was held up "when the appropriate occasion
Miss Brooks made her disclos- Soviet Jews, with the most recent man and Austrian embassies in
in the ministry of foreign affairs arises."
ures at a farewell press confer- developments in the form of at- 1938, when they were under Nazi
for a year until he appealed di-
The elder Kazakov called Te- ence marking the end of her visit tached Xerox sheets. Accompany- control.
rectly to Pit emier Kosygin, after koah a second time from Moscow to Israel.
ing the document was an open
The students from Washington
which "I was unexpectedly in- and thanked the envoy when he
She defended her visit against letter to United Nations Secretary area colleges were members of
formed , . that the exit permit was told that his son had ended sharp criticism from the Arab General U Thant signed by 25 the New Washington Committee
has been totally refused to me." his fast. The envoy told the father countries. Miss Brooks said the Russian Jews seeking emigration for Human Rights. Maximum pen-
The writer, Yosif Khikhinashvili, he honed Soviet officials would leaders of nations should be en- to Israel alty on conviction is 60 days in
called on Than to intervene in his come around to recognizing the couraged to go to areas of con-
In Mexico City, the Union of jail or a $100 fine. The trial was
behalf.
desire of families to be with other flict such as the Mid East to study Rabbis of Latin America has is- postponed to enable the judge to
In Tel Aviv, Yasha Kazakov family members in lands of their first hand what the feelings and sued two statements protesting the rule on the constitutionality of
was cheered as he returned to Is- choice.
interests and the mood of the peo- treatment of Soviet Jewry and U.S. the law, which permits persons
rael folowing his eight-day hunger
The fast was the subject of an ple concerned are.
policy towards Israel. One state- involved in labor disputes to pick-
strike near United Nations head- angry debate in the Knesset last
She told newsmen she has no ment was sent to President Nixon, et foreign embassies, but not
quarters in New York. "We are w e e k. Opposition members and
response so far from the Arab according to Rabbi Abraham M. others.
proud of you" read a large stu- some representing coalition fac-
states to her offer to go any-
dent-made poster. at Lydda Air- tions accused the government of
where in the interests of peace.
port.
She said she felt it was pointless
trying to suppress news of Soviet
The 23-year-old Soviet emigre Jews in order to avoid angering to take further initiatives because
told a press conference here that the Soviet Union.
to be of us an emissary has to
he had ended his strike not, as
Premier Meir r ejec ted the be trusted and accepted.
has been reported, because of
Miss Brooks said that while in
charges but warned that "one
pleas by the Israeli government
must be very careful in dealing Israel she found no real hostility
and by his father, still refused
with the matter so as not to do between Jews and Arabs as one
emigration from the Soviet Union,
more harm than good." She might expect from reading news-
but because he felt his action had
called the Kazakov affair "a paper accounts.
impressed on the governments in-
She said she believed the two na-
very sensitive problem" and
volved the necessity for easing
admonished those who would use tions could live together.
the emigration flow to Israel.
Miss Brooks was hospitalized
it to "settle political accounts"
Premier Golda Meir, in a letter
for influenza and tonsilitis and
and "personal vendettas."
"Red Hof" over the J.T.A.
to Kazakov presented to him by
The Kazakov affair has brought extended her stay in Israel. Hers
comes the latest news of the
her deputy Shlomo Shiloh, said she out sharp differences of opinion was the first official visit to
Jewish World. "Hot Type" means
had followed the news of his strike here as to what Israel's posture
Israel by an incumbent presi-
"hot news" in your home every
and hoped he was in good health. should be toward the plight of dent of the General Assembly.
Friday. The Jewish News
"You are not alone," she wrote Soviet Jewry. While there is vir-
Sources here said that during
needs PAK mechanics who can
him.
her
stay at Hadassah Hospital she
tually universal solidarity with de-
back up brilliant writing.
Young Kazakov was Carried mands voiced by increasing num- had her eyes examined by Prof.
from the airport on the shoulders bers of Russian Jews for full re- Isaac Michaels. Prof. Michaels es-
of the crowd.
ligious and cultural freedom and tablished an eye clinic at the Cen-
A friend of Kazakov accused the right to emigrate to Israel, tral Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia
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Angie Brooks
Sends Kosygin
Requests of Jews
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circuiting his struggle to secure
emigration rights for his family
claimed that the government did
not wholeheartedly support young
Kazakov's hunger strike and ac-
tually "short circuited" it by
calling on him to end his fast.
Sperling, speaking at the Com-
mercial and Industrial Club here,
hinted at possible sympathy
strikes in Israel. As long as the
government fails to carry on the
40 — Friday, April 10, 1970
While hospitalized, Miss Brooks
received a petition from the Israel
National Students Union demand-
ing full rights for Soviet Jews.
According to sources the petition
was conveyed to Miss Brooks by
foreign ministry officials because
she was unable to receive a stu-
dent delegation due to her illness.
Miss Brooks is reported to have
also received several requests
from private persons seeking her
aid in behalf of relatives who want
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS to leave the Soviet Union.
in the foreign ministry, feel that
Israel's response should be low-
keyed and that whatever Israel
can do to alleviate the plight of
Soviet Jews should be done quiet-
ly and in a coordinated manner.
The foreign ministry is opposed
to Israeli citizens abroad, however
well meaning, who conduct demon-
strations without coordination or
consultation with Israeli authori-
ties.
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