Riga Family Appeals to Thant for Aid
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years. the three of us have been
applying with requests for emigra-
tion permits to the proper Soviet
organ, the Ovir. However, in all
the past years we invariably re-
ceived the same unmotivated an-
swer, a refusal."
They said they had concluded
that "Unfortunately nobody is In-
terested in the fact that every re-
fusal causes immeasurable suffer-
ing to the three of us and to our
relations in Israel."
As a result of a petition filed by
them last year, they wrote, "Our
only son was expelled from the
Riga Polytechnical Institute be-
cause of the serious nervous
shocks that were the consequences
of the refusal. His health has
greatly deteriorated . . ."
(In London, the publication "Fo-
cus on Soviet Jewry" has put out
a special issue containing the full
text of the recent appeal to the
seventh International Symposium
on the Chemistry of Natural Sci-
ences by 28 Jewish Riga scientists.
The appeal urged the conferants
to raise their voices in support of
Soviet Jewish rights.)
(The Israel-American dialogue
held at the Weizmann Institute
in Rehovot, sponsored by the
American Jewish Congress, turn-
ed Aug. 5 into a triangle with
Russian Jewry as the third di-
mension.
(Dr. Benjamin Eliyav said that
the dialogue here between Ameri-
can Jews and Israeli Jews has a
third partner — the Russian Jews
— which he said is just a third
center to Jewish life.
(Russian Jews were apparently
deeply affected by the death of
eight children of Avivim settlement
in the terrorist ambush of a school
bus near the Lebanese border last
May. Letters of sympathy from
Jews bearing Soviet postmarks
continue to be received by the
stricken families. A parcel con-
taining toys and candies was re-
ceived at Avivim from a Jew in
Lithuania.)
Meanwhile, rallies protesting the
plight of Soviet Jewry were held
in Denver, Boston, Washington
D.C. and Los Angeles over the
weekend.
In Denver. a Catholic nun
joined 32 students and adults for
a three-day fast on the steps of
the capitol building to protest
the recent arrests of nine Lenin-
grad Jews.
The fast was begun Sunday by
23 students and faculty members
of the University of Colorado who
decided on a "Fast for Freedom" '
to bring attention to the plight of
the 3.000,000 Jews in the Soviet
Union.
They were soon joined by nine
members of the United Family, a
small Protestant religious group.
The fast was observed with daily
teach-ins by university faculty
members and Tisha b'Av religious
services.
Signatures were gathered on
a "Statement of Concern" to be
presented to Soviet authorities
on behalf of "the 3,000,000 Jews
trapped in a growing tide of
hatred and anti-Semitism," Mrs.
Hoffman said.
In Boston, Fr. Robert F. Drinan,
former dean of the Boston College
Law School commission on civil
rights, was the keynote speaker
Sunday at a rally sponsored by the
New England Region of the Stu-
dent Struggle for Soviet Jewry in
cooperation with the New England
Region of the American Jewish
Committee. The rally was held
in the Boston Common and fea-
tured a "guerrilla theater" per-
formance of the trial of Boris
Kochubiyevsky, a Ukrainian Jew
who was imprisoned for "slander"
against the Soviet state.
In Washington, a f a s t was
sponsored by the Jewish Com-
munity Council of Washington
and the Washington Board of
Rabbis. Several thousand per-
sons took part in religious cere-
monies and at a Conference of
Soviet Jewry held at Bnai Is-
rael Congregation Monday and
Tuesday.
About 1,000 persons demon-
strated on behalf of Soviet Jewry
in Los Angeles last Friday night
in front of the Shrine Auditorium,
where the famed Moiseyev Ballet
Company opened a one-week en-
gagement.
1st Israeli-Trained Speech Therapists
Graduate, Placed in Good Positions
NEW YORK—The first "trained
in Israel" speech therapists com-
pleted their studies this summer,
and all 30 of them have already
landed excellent positions in treat-
ment centers for speech and hear-.
ing disorders, it was reported by-
Samuel L. Haber. executive vice
chairman of the Joint Distribution
Committee.
The school of communicative dis-
orders at the Tel Aviv University
Medical School gives a three-year
course leading to a bachelors de-
gree. It was established in 1967 at
the initiative of JDC Malben and
receives half of its budget from
the JDC agency, Haber said. The
balance is contributed by other
agencies.
Haber noted that one out of
every thousand people in Isriel
suffers from some speech or hear-
ing disability. "Unfortunately." he
said, "Israel has been faced with
a chronic shortage of professional
speech therapists. There were no
training facilities in Israel, and
those few who were trained
abroad had to adapt their training
to conditions in Israel. Now, how-
ever, with the school of communi-
cative disorders well under way,
Israel should be able to train an
adequate number of therapists in
a few years' time."
From its inception in 1949,
JDC Malben has been conscious of
the need to train professional per-
sonnel in Israel. Haber continued.
JDC organized a number of
courses and seminars to train the
different kinds of workers needed
at the various Malben institutions
for the aged, chronically ill and
handicaped.
In addition to providing profes-
sional and financial assistance for
the school for speech therapy, JDC
continues to assist the Paul Baer-
wald School of Social Work at the
Hebrew University and the Occupa-
tional Therapy School in Jeru-
salem, Haber said.
The JDC receives the bulk of 'ts
funds for the Malben program in
Israel and for other health and wel-
fare programs around the world
mainly from the campaigns of the
United Jewish Appeal.
JDC Malben provides technical
and financial assistance to Micha,
a national voluntary agency in Is-
rael, which helps deaf and hard-of-
hearing pre-kindergarten children,
Haber said. JDC 'Malben is also
aiding two pilot projects conducted
in cooperation with the Tel Aviv
elementary school system on be-
half of deaf and hard-of-hearing
children, Haber added.
In one project, 50 children with
hearing difficulties were placed
with normal children in five
schools. The second project is de-
signed to locate children with
speech and hearing problems so
that they may be properly tested,
diagnosed and treated, he conclud-
ed.
JNF Plans to Spend
$4.6 Million in 3 Years
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Jew-
ish National Fund is planning to
spend 54,657.000 during the next
three years on land development.
road construction and afforesta-
tion, Fund Chairman Yaacov Tzur
reported to the agency executive.
Although police were out in
force, there were no incidents.
According to Zev Yaroslaysky
and Si Frumkin, chairmen of the
Southern California Council for
Soviet J e w s, the demonstrators
protesting the treatment of Jews
in the USSR had the support of
"many non-Jewish performers in
the ballet company itself."
Yaroslaysky and Frumkin re-
plied to what was aparently criti-
cism from local religious elements
for holding a demonstration on
the Sabbath.
"This type of activity is the only
alternative we have if we intend
to save Soviet Jews," they said.
In London, the British section
of the World Jewish Congress
sent a friendly letter to the
principal members of the visit-
ing Kirov Ballet Company of
Leningrad calling their attention
to the treatment of Jews in the
Soviet Union.
The letter, signed by Jack Bar-
nett, general secretary, said the
Congress was writing as "friends
and as people who will always re-
member with gratitude the con-
tribution of the Red Army to the
Allied victory."
But, he went on, "at the same
time we feel it is our duty to pro-
test against the disabilities of So-
viet Jews." "It would be an act
of humanity," the letter said, "for
the Soviet government to permit
Jews to go to Israel if they so
desire."
In Ottawa, 200 Jewish students
from Toronto, Montreal and Otta-
wa joined in a quiet one-hour pro-
test Sunday at noon outside the
Soviet Embassy.
Amateur actors portrayed So-
viet Jews being beaten for at-
tempting to practice their religion.
The protest was organized by the
Action Committee for Soviet Jew-
ry, a Toronto student organization.
The protestors had planned to
present a petition on behalf of Ca-
nadian Jewish students, but no one
from the embassy came to the
door. It was announced the petition
would be mailed to the embassy.
Following the singing of the Is-
raeli and Canadian national an-
thems, the students moved to
Strathcona Park where a Soviet
flag was burned. The demonstra-
tion ended with a Tisha b'Av serv-
ice.
Prime Minister Golda Meir, at
the dedication of the Russian
Heintz (Pioneer) Movement For-
est planted by the Jewish Na-
tional Fund at Modi'im said, "It
Is tragic that the great mass of
Russian Jewry is still cut off
from immigration by the Soviet
authorities. But Jewish life goes
on in Russia. These Jews will
not go crazy in Soviet mental
hospitals, they will one day be
with us in Israel. No country,.
no matter how powerful, can
deny certain truths."
The prime minister told the
gathering that recently she had
received a letter from a former
anti-Zionist Jew in the Soviet Un-
ion who wrote that at one time he
had done everything in his power
to hinder the Zionist cause. Then
he was imprisoned and sent to
Siberia where he learned what the
Russian regime really was. He
wrote to the authorities renounc-
ing his Soviet citizenship and ask-
ing permission to go to Israel,
which he initially obtained, but
then was stopped at the frontier,
allegedly for bringing with him a
10-volume research work he had
completed on the Yiddish lan-
guage. Now he is being threatened
with imprisonment either in a men-
tal institution or in prison.
"Hundreds and thousands of
such letters are being written. Do
not despair, Soviet Jewry is not
lost," Mrs. Meir concluded.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
10—Friday, August 14, 1970
Meir, Dayan Contribute
to JNF Book for B-C
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister
Gold Meir and Defense Minister
Moshe Dayan were among the first
contributors in a nationwide cam-
paign to inscribe David Ben-Gurion
in the Jewish National Fund
Golden Book, upon his retirement
from the Knesset.
A certificate listing the names
of more than 200 contributing in-
dividuals, institutions -and settle-
ments will be presented to the coun-
try's first prime minister, at his
home in the kibutz Sde Boker.
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