THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 19, 1970-3
Tightening of Romania Exit Policies
Radical Jewish Union Reaches Having Effect on Emigration to Israel
(JTA)—Roman- university when his parents ap -
Accord With Te mple Emann-El ian WASHINGTON
plied for emigration to Israel.
Jews seeking emigration to
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Radical
Jewish Union of Columbia Univer-
sity, reported Sunday it had reach-
ed an "understanding" with offi-
cials of Temple Emanu-El and
that it had therefore cancelled any
further Friday visits to the syna-
gogue, including one set for last
Friday, in efforts to present anti-
war arguments to the congrega-
tion.
Rabbi A. Bruce Goldman, rab-
binical adviser to the RJU, and
two members were arrested on
charges of disrupting services
during two of three RJU visits to
Friday vesper services. Rabbi
Goldman, who led each RJU group
for the three consecutive Friday
appearances which began May 15,
was arrested twice.
Victor Levin, a graduate student,
and Anne Rosen, a graduating
senior at Barnard College were the
two arrested RJU members. At a
hearing for the three defendents
Friday in Criminal Court, trial on
these charges was set for Sept. 18
despite efforts by Temple Emanu-
El officials to persuade the district
attorney's office to drop the
charges. District Attorney Kenneth
Gribetz insisted that the case go
to trial because "this is not a pri-
vate matter."
He noted that police had been
called to the temple and there had
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been two violations of law forbid-
ding disruption of religious serv-
ices. The RJU had said that if the
charges were not dropped, it would
continue the weekly visits to the
synagogue.
Rabbi Goldman said the "un-
derstanding" had been embodied
in a "mutual statement' which
said: "Representatives of the
Radical Jewish Union and Tem-
ple Emanu-El are now agreed
that further constructive conver-
sations will take place between
the two groups on matters of
mutual concern, focusing on the
Jewish response to pressing so-
cial and political issues of our
time, such as war, poverty, ra-
cism and political repression."
He added that the agreement
provided for access by RJU mem-
bers to the synagogue board of
trustees and lay and rabbinic lead-
ers through synagogue bulletins
and publications, and possibly by
addresses to temple groups. The
RJU decided to halt its weekly
visits, despite failure to have the
charges dropped, because of a feel-
ing that Temple Emanu-El officials
had been "honorable and sincere"
in efforts to have the charges
cancelled.
Israel have been seriously affect-
ed by a general tightening of exit
policies that apply to all Roman-
ian nationals, Washington Post
correspondent Dan Morgan report-
ed from Bucharest Tuesday.
The postwar outflow that reduc-
ed the number of Jews in Romania
from 400,000 to 100,000 since 1945
has been virtually halted. Last
year only 1,200 were granted exit
permits and, according to inforrr ed
diplomats, this rate has declineti in
the first months of 1970, Morgan
said.
The tightening of restrictions on
emigration and travel abroad in
general by Romanians is attributed
to government policies encouraging
population growth and the need to
ease the strain of the country's
monetary reserves.
Hardest hit by the policies are
Germans, the second largest ethnic
minority in the country after Hun-
garians. Some teachers, students,
journalists and others in sensitive
jobs have lost their posts after
applying for emigration, Morgan
reported.
He cited the case of a gifted
Morgan said there was evidence
that Arab governments are try-
ing to exert pressure on the
Bucharest regime to curtail the
departure of :Jews for Israel-
Arab officials have requested in-
formation on the number of Jew-
ish emigres.
Romania is the only Communist
bloc country that did not sever
diplomatic relations with Israel
during the June 1967 Arab-Israeli
war and important trade pacts
have been signed between the two
nations since then. There have been
no officially inspired anti-Zionist
campaigns as in Poland and the
Soviet Union, and Romanian Jews
enjoy a large degree of cultural
and religious freedom, Morgan
reported.
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