Students Press Bum Brith to Mount -11r.tr nr13 rs. ndenlhz um 50hA nniversa ry fa rkt Campaitin on Behalf of Soviet Jews • • 1 never decreed compulsory citizen- authorities in the Soviet Union to ship as an official principle of permit Jews who so desired to policy, the majority of Soviet Jews emigrate to Israel. have been denied the legal right The rally was organized under the slogan "Let our brothers in t o emigrate." the Soviet Union go!" Dr. Isaac The letter adds that "On the con- trary, sometimes different forms of Goldenberg. president of the Latin. American Jewish Congress, who pressure have been brought to bear • on them." The writers said they reported on the situation of Jews in the Soviet Union, emphasized consider the Israeli government their "representative" and their that it was the duty of Jews in all prime means of aid in their "strug- countries of the free world to de- gle to enter our homeland, Israel." clare their support for the right of Soviet Jews to leave that country The World Jewish Congress re- if they so desired. ported that prominent Uruguayan Meanwhile Czechoslovakia's Com- intellectuals and political per. munist regime has embarked on sonalities, including cabinet min- an anti-Israel, anti-Zionist cam- isters, senators, deputies, mili- paign modeled on that in the Soviet tary chiefs and university pro- Union, according to reports from fessors declared their support Prague. for the right of Soviet Jews to In a special feature, Radio immigrate to Israel in written Prague declared: "Zionism tried messages to a large mass rally organized by Uruguay's Jewish ; to create artificially a Jewish na- tion. Lenin has said that such a Central Committee in Monte- nation does not exist. He gave video. Soviet Jews the opportunity to Also communicated to the rally create a Jewish state inside the was a message from the commis- Soviet Union, but the Jews proved sion on foreign affairs of the Uru- that they had lost the capacity to guayan Senate announcing that it run a country of their own." had unanimously adopted a reso- An article in the ideological jour- lution subject to approval by the senate, to send a cable urging the nal "Nova Myal" stated: "Zionism is a reactionary movement of Jewish-Fascist and c h a u v i n i s t- racialist origin, supported by Jew- ish millionaires in America and Britain. Jewish capitalists not only decide on the policies of Israel but The students made three sug- i also represent the imperialist gestions to Bnai Brith, Richter CENTENNIAL CHAPTER wit powers' influence on her." said—that it reprint the appeals hold a cocktail-tasting social 8:15 ; of Soviet Jews as newspaper and p.m. Tuesday at the home of Mrs. ; David Asher in Seminar magazine advertisements; that it Peter Trepeck, 23777 Merrill. initiate a regular Soviet Jewry Southfield, social chairman. Mrs. With Students in Israel newsletter to be sent to Jewish Harvey Zalla announced. Sample David Asher of Michigan State organizations, schools and syna- cocktails, free recipes and prizes University is among 43 students gogues; and that it create action will be given. from 36 universities throughout committees for special crises like NEW YORK (JTA)—A possible confrontation between the Student, Struggle for Soviet Jewry and the ;Mai Brith over the issue of in- volvement in the plight of Soviet Jews has developed into an at least temporary ceasefire. Fifteen of the students walked into the Bnai Brith office here June 26 following an all-night vigil at the Isaiah Wall across from United Nations headquarters and sought to speak with officials there over what they termed insufficient Bnai Brith activity on behalf of Soviet Jewry. They conferred for two hours with !Mai Brith executives representing the Anti-Defamation League, the final Brith district office and the affiliated Academic Committee for Soviet Jewry. Both sides report that a degree of mutual under- standing was reached. Glen Richter, coordinator of the "Student Struggle, called the meet- ing "very constructive." He told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the Bnai Brith officials indicated they would seek greater Bnai Brith activity on behalf of Soviet Jews. The student vigil near the UN was held to protest the arrests, raids and searches of Jews in sev- eral Soviet cities in connection with an alleged Jewish hijacking attempt of a plane at the Lenin- grad airport June 15. the arrest of the "Leningrad 8." Mel Klarfeld, Bnai Brith asso- ciate director for lodge services, told the JTA that he and his col- leagues had advised the students that it had taken out such ads, but that a regular Soviet Jewry news- letter and the mailing of special appeals would be "very costly." (Bnai Brith now publishes a "Na- tional Jewish Monthly" and a monthly "Metropolitan Star.") Klarfeld said Bnai Brith had indicated to the students that "we are keeping abreast of the situa- tion," and that his organization had arranged for the students to meet separately with the national ADL. He told the JTA he recog- nized that the students are "a little frustrated" over repression of Soviet Jews. Both spokesmen reported agree- ment on relating the students' re- quests to top Bnai Brith officials. Richter said the executives at the meeting had promised "intensive thinking" about special-action com- mittees, although Klarfeld noted the budgetary limitations. Seven more Soviet Jews have Mrs. appealed Golda Meir" for aid in expedit- ing their emigration to Israel. Their letter, dated April 2 and made public Monday, character- izes as false the current Kremlin assertions that all "Soviet citizens of Jewish descent" protest Israel's support of emigration demands. "The participants of this campaign purport to speak on behalf of all the Jews living within the borders of the Soviet Union, but have no right to do so," the letter said. The signers identified themselves as Lev Smuelovitch Shenkar, Ana- toly Vladimrovitz Dikatov, Mark Simonovitz Finkelstein, Norma Zi- novievitch Syrikin, Zoriah Voni- moovna Rosenfeldadim, Yakovle- vitch Bursheksky and Tissilinok Boris Leibovitch. The letter declared that "many thousands of Jews living in the Soviet Union have applied to the competent Soviet authorities for permission to emigrate to Israel," but that "although the Soviet gov- ernment has recognized the Decla- ration of Human Rights and has J I EW 970 ISH NEWS 28—Friday, oy July 1 1 0 T , FOR THE BEST IN MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT SAM EMMER And His Orchestra 358-0938 Candy Centerpieces Personalized Party Mementos Invitations and Party Ac- cessories for all occasions. MARCIA MASSERMAN 646-6138 MR. AND MRS. INDENBAUM The golden anniversary of Meyer and Minnie Indenbaum of Sara- toga Ave., Oak Park, was honored by their children, Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Kritzer, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Indenbaum and Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Indenbaum, with a dinner celebration at Cong. Beth Abraham. Mr. and Mrs. Indenbaum met in Detroit and were married here June 27, 1920. Activities the U.S. and Canada who will he participating in a leadership train- U-M Hillel Program ing seminar in Israel under the Gets Asst. Director auspices of the university service Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation has department of the American Zion- named Rabbi Joel E. Poupko of ist Youth Foundation, in coopera- New York as assistant director of tion with the youth and hechalutz its program at the University of department of the World Zionist Organization in Jerusalem. Michigan. The members of the group have His appointment, effective this fall, was announced by Rabbi Ben- already left for Israel. The first seminar of that kind took place jamin M. Kahn, national director last summer. of Bnai Brith Hil- The seminar in Jerusalem will lel Foundations. concentrate on the problems of Rabbi Poupko Israel, the Arab world, the Ameri- will assist Rabbi can university and the Jewish stu- Gerald Goldman, dent on the American campus. who has served The program will be Lased as Hillel director largely on field trips and on-the- since 1969. spot meetings with Israelis of vari- Rabbi Poupko, ous groups ranging from the far 24, was ordained left to the far right, both Jews and last month at Arabs. Yeshiva Univer- sity in New York. Rabbi Poupko He earned his bachelor's degree at College Coffee House Yeshiva in 1967 and attended the Kollel Institute for Advanced Tal- Planned at Center mudic Research in Cleveland from The Michigan Association of 1967 to 1968. Jewish College Students announces Rabbi Poupko was formerly a a college coffee house to take student rabbi with Shaareh Torah place 8-12 mm. Tuesday at the Oak Congregation in Pittsburgh and Park Jewish Center. A BYOR youth director of Anshe Emcs (Bring Your Own Rug) coffee Congregation and the Garden City house, the program will feature Jewish Center in New York. folk singers Loring Janes and Bill Clayton. Admission is limited to undergraduate and graduate col- Rare Jewish Graphics lege students and is nominal. Re- Donated to Bnai Brith freshments will be served. WASHINGTON—Bnai Brith has The Michigan Association is a received a gift from Hyman J. nonprofit organization of Jewish Cohen of Arlington, Va., of 55 17th- college students throughout Mich- to-19th Century etchings, engrav- igan. Students' names will be put ings and lithographs on Jewish and on the mailing list by request. biblical themes. The valuable collection includes Center Single Adults works by European artists George Neuman, Johann Printz, George Head for Frankenmuth The Single Adult Group of the Lemberger, James Tissot and Jewish Center will meet at the Jean Martin. Cohen, an attorney and Judaica Center's 10 Mile branch 3 p.m. collector, is a member of the ex- Sunday and proceed to Franken- ecutive council of the American muth for dinner. On July 19, the group will be off Jewish Historical Society and a past president of the Jewish His- to Bob-Lo. They'll leave from the torical Society of Greater Wash- main building at 4 p.m. ington. Milk is our biggest single source The collection will be on dis- play in the Klutznick Exhibit Hall ; of farm income, bringing Michigan of the Bnai Brith Building here farmers more than S245,000,000 in 1969. during August. Those who work much do not work hard. —Henry David Thoreau. 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