Olympics Fought by Jewish Groups Soviet Bid to Host Moshe Decter on the treatment I support of Soviet Jewry the deep Judge Berke gave the suspended LOS ANGELES (JTA)—Two loc- al Jewish groups are trying to block Soviet Russia's bid to be the site of the International Olym- pic games in 1976. The Southern California Council for Soviet Jews and the Cali- fornia Students for Soviet Jews said Tuesday that the Interna- tional Olympic Committee should not give serious consideration to Moscow's application as long as Russian Jews are repressed and denied freedom to leave. Si Frumkin, a spokesman for the groups, said, "We feel . . . that it is an affront to the spirit of the Olympics to seriously con- sider an application from a gov- ernment which consistently vio- lates the UN Declaration of Hu- man Rights . . (which) states that all people will be permitted to leave any country for any des- tination, and this is exactly what the Soviet Jews are not permitted to do." Frumkin claimed that more than 80,000 Russian Jews had applied for exit permits last year and fewer than 1,000 were permitted to leave. He said a nationwide campaign of letters and telegrams to the International Olympic Com- mittee had been started by Soviet Jewry councils all over the coun- try. A 37-year-old Jewish mathema- tician left the Soviet Union May 6, apparently for Israel, it was learned in London. Yuli Telesin, an avowed Zionist who has publicly criticized the Kremlin's anti-Israel policies, left from Moscow airport for Vienna. About 60 persons including his parents, who write Yiddish poetry, saw him off. Telesin was one of 40 Soviet Jews who signed a letter last March complaining about their government's restrictive emigra- tion policies and demanding the right to go to Israel. He was one of several Jewish protesters singl- ed out by the government news- paper lzvestia for attacks as a "renegade long known for his Zi- oni3t views." DETROIT EWISH HEWS 6—Friday ay, May 15, 1 J970 .concern of the 15,000,000 Amer i- sentence under the Youth Correc- Mrs. McKay Decides th tion Act, which permits youthful Not to Run Again can workers in the AFL-CIO, with Dr. Decter, head of the Jewish I the anti - Jewish discrimination offenders to wipe their records Minorities Research Organization ' practiced and tolerated by the clean by keeping out of trouble for for Parliament Seat in New York, wrote the three- I rulers of the Soviet Union. A six months after their offense. LONDON—After months of bit- part series for JTA, carried in vicious anti-Jewish campaign is The 17 youths, all students at the ter dispute with her local Labor The Jewish News, last January now being pursued with increased University of Philadelphia, chained Party, Clapham's Member of Par- to answer a previously circulated vigor in the Soviet Union. To the themselves to the fence at the Rus- liament, Mrs. Margaret McKay, Novosti article titled Soviet long list of persecutions, suppress- sian Embassy on April 9 and pre- has decided not to stand at the Jews as They Are," which depicted ions of labors rights and human sented embassy officials with a next general election. the 1 i f e of Russian Jewry as 1 rights practiced by t h e Soviet petition in support of Russian Jews She announced her decision a "happy." i leadership have been added the signed by 300 university professors. month before the Clapham party's The Novosti reply was written traditional mark of totalitarian- meeting to discuss Mrs. McKay's They read a statement in the by one of its staff writers, Ruvim ism, discrimination against the courtroom, saying they were risk- pro-Arab interests and future as MP. Groyer. Novosti, an official Soviet Jewish people. "Despite denials by Soviet lead- ing the 60-day prison term or $100 1 The chairman of the party, Colin organ, is regarded as an external propaganda agency. Its dispatches ership, the facts of anti-Semitism fine because to it the was plight a minor compared of thing Boris Blau, declared "I can only say that I am very pleased with Mrs. are circulated abroad but not with- are clearly established. who was sentenced Kochubievsky, McKay's decision to resign." On behalf of the AFL-C10, I one year ago to an undetermme in the USSR. of One of Mrs. McKay's supporters, to express our support wish w Groyer disputed Dr. Decter's which can restore prison term for asking to leave the contention that Lenin's opposition any even efforts small measures of freedom Soviet Union and go to Israel with the Rev. Tony Crowe, vicar of St. John the Evangelist, who recently his wife and children. They said to anti-semitism was "tactical" to the Russian people. One step that the entire Soviet Union was a returned from a trip to Jordan with rather than based on principle. He the Jewish Mrs. McKay, described the an- in that direction is disputed Dr. Decter's claim that prison for Russian Jews, and they Labor Committee's struggle to were all sentenced to life imprison- nouncement as a sad event. Soviet Jews were left to fend for win for the Jews of the Soviet themselves during the Nazi on- ment. Union at least an equality of slaught against Russia in June A similar case, of Washington treatment within the limitations 1941. which have been imposed on all area students who demonstrated at Groyer also sought to refute the embassy last December, has INCORPORATED the Russian people by their Dr. Decter's assertion that Soviet finished testimony. The judge in Jews today are limited in their rulers." that case, who has never had a In Jerusalem, a Public Council case overturned by a higher court, choice of profession and are de- prived of cultural expressions for Soviet Jewry has been estab- is reserving his decision "under such as a Jewish theater and lished with Hebrew University Pre- advisement." Court observers spec- ident Avraham Harman as its Jewish books. chairman and five Knesset mem- ulate that he is waiting for the rtistry The main point the Novosti its presidium. The group U.S. Court of Appeals to decide on on purpose was to "fight for the constitutionality of the law un- writer sought to prove was that bers said its in FillierJeweL h h all the students were anti-Semitism was more preval- the rights of Russian Jews to emi- der which ent in the United States than 'arrest arrested. grate to Israel and live Jewish 1 in the Soviet Union and that 1 lives." American Jews were no better In Washington teen-age students NO INCREASE IN MICE! off culturally. If not worse off, gathered outside the Soviet Em- 20010•JamesCoczensDrive than Soviet Jews. bassy in a "fast for freedom" to Detroit 35, Michigan "Dr. Decter mentions the ab- protest discrimination against Jews sence of Jewish "Educational in- Co‘stpate auf,Avaea... Photographers stitutions in the USSR," Groyer in Russia and the refusal of the ' wrote. "May I ask him what per- Soviet government to allow Jews 342-5666 352-8930 to emigrate to Israel. More than centage of Jewish boys and girls get Jewish education in the USA 200 youths signed up for the dem- and what aim, apart from Zionist onstration.Each teen-ager fasts one day in front of the embassy, and Jewish nationalist indoctrina- in a solitary vigil to express soli- tion it pursues?" darity with Jewish youth in Rus- The writer also spoke of "a sia. whole collection of anti-Semitic The focus of the "fast for free- STILL THE WORLD'S LARGEST literature" available at a Wash- ington D.C. bookstore and the fact. dom" vigil is on Boris Kochubi- yevsky, the young Soviet Jewish that "There are many hotels in engineer who was sentenced to a A second Soviet Jew left at US cities where Jews cannot three-year prison term last May for stay." He noted that more than the same time, but young Mischa protesting Soviet anti-Semitism and 300 books by Jewish authors have Buslyev, of Riga, Latvia, was un- for asking for permission to emi- "REMEMBER" known to the Jevis gathered at been published in the Soviet Union grate to Israel with his wife and in the last ten years, including child. the airport. They said he appar- WE SELL THE MOST six volumes of Sholem Aleichem ently had not been active among Declaring it was "contrary to in Russian and asked, "How many Soviet Jewish groups protest- the purposes of the law" to jail stu- WE GIVE THE MOST books by Jewish authors have ing government policy. One said been put out in this time in the dents who demonstrated in support "He is just a quiet Jew who WE CARE THE MOST United States, where the number of the Soviet Jews in front of the wants to go to Israel." R of Jews is double that of the Russian Embassy last month, a MILT LEVIN RED STOTSKY District of Columbia General Ses- The group gathered at the air- Soviet Union?" ' Call 863-9300 Call 863-9300 sions Court judge gave 17 Phila- port was surprised that Telesin In his January series, Dr. Dec- was allowed to leave, and not some ter described the NOvosti version delphia students a suspended sen- 18650 LIVERNOIS, SOUTH OF SEVEN other Soviet Jew. As the two de- of Jewish life in Russia as "a tence Tuesday. parted, the group called out "Shal- tired rehash of old lies, half truths om" and "Next year in Jerusa- and distortions. Even as propa- lem." ganda it is pathetically incompet- According to a correspondent ent." from the Los Angeles Times-Wash- In New York„ United Federa- ington Post Service, the airport tion of Teachers President Al- group included several Jews who bert Shanker, civil rights leader said they had served prison terms Bayard Bustin and International for "Zionist activities" and who Ladies Garment Workers Union have repeatedly applied for exit • Vice President Henoch Mendel- permits over the years but were sund headed a list of prominent always turned down. speakers at an after-work labor "Many said they were glad Tele- conference in support of Soviet sin was leaving, regardless of the Jewry Monday, which was spon- reasons, that it may be the start sored by the Jewish Labor Com- of a mass exodus," wrote Harry mittee. Trim born. Charles S. Zimmerman, presi- Israel's Premier GoIda Meir has dent of the Jewish Labor Commit- I received still another letter from a Russian-Jewish woman asking tee, said, "The conference is being held as a response to the Soviet Are you looking for the best help to emigrate to Israel, it was Union's increasingly virulent anti- in nursing care? Georgian reported from Jerusalem. The let- ter was from Mrs. Ida Morduk- Jewish campaign. Our protests are Northwest offers the best. hovna Ropskaya, 44, who has a necessary. We must demand that mother and a sister in Israel. She the anti:Jewish campaign should come to an end." Every need of the chronically ill, the asked Mrs. Meir to pass her letter convalescent and geriatric patient is George Meany, 'president of the on to the United Nations. skillfully provided in an atmosphere AFL-CIO, sent the following mes- I Meanwhile, Novosti, the Soy- Georgian Northwest of luxury and refinement. sage to the conference: of Jews in the Soviet Union. T H. 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