Special. Sabbath and Student Rally
to Mark Soviet Jewry Week Here

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i international organization capable
ter understanding of the problems of helping me." Peres was minis-
confronting the Jews of the Soviet ter of immigrant absorption when
the letter was received.
Union.
Rabbi Leon Fram, chairman of
Special prayer services for So-
the Rabbinical Commission, stated, viet Jewry were held at the Wail-
"The occasion of Simhat Torah in ing Wall Monday as part of a
the Soviet Union has come to focus worldwide day of protest on be-
on that remarkable gathering of half of Jews in the Soviet Union.
young Jewish men and women who The services were led by Chief
celebrate outside the Moscow syna-
Rabbi Isser Untermann, the
gogue in open defiance of the Ashkenazic chief rabbi, and
Soviet regime . . .
Chief Rabbi Elyahu Pardess of
Jerusalem.
"This event provides us with
an opportunity to express our
The services were marked by the
solidarity with the Jews of the sounding of the shofar and a pray-
Soviet Union and to expose pub- er composed by Rabbi Untermann
licly the anti-Semitic policies of for "our brethren growing up with-
the Russian government ..."
out knowledge of God, in an
Under the title Project Outcry, atmosphere of hate and fear . . .
many
of them languishing in prison
student groups are planning a num-
ber of activities during the week because they requested permission
to migrate to the Holy Land."
which include teach-ins, petitir•
campaigns and a public rally.
The reported wave of arrests of
The Jewish Educators Council Jews in - Russia was denounced in
has reported that many schools a letter prepared Monday by the
will sponsor special assemblies and Editors Council of Student News-
other activities related to the issue papers in Israel for transmission
of Soviet Jewry.
to Soviet authorities through the
The Council has been informed Finnish Embassy. The letter as-
that student groups in several sailed the arrests of Jews for ex-
Detroit area colleges are also plan- pressing a desire to emigrate to
ning on-campus activities during Israel and charged that anti-Semit-
the Simhat Torah - Soviet Jewry ism was being practiced openly
in the USSR.
Week period.
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Israeli students are preparing a
New Arrests of Russian Jews
petition on behalf of Russian Jewry
Bring Detentions to 32
to be signed by "Heroes of the
LONDON (JTA)—Soviet authori- Soviet Union" in Israel and abroad,
ties have arrested four Jews known it was disclosed at a student rally
to be friends of Alexander Gal- Monday. "Hero of the Soviet
perin, who was arrested July 15 Union" is one of the highest acco-
with other Soviet Jews for undis- lades bestowed by the Soviet gov-
closed reason s, according to ernment for valor in combat. Many
authoritative reports reaching here. Jews who earned it during World
These arrests bring to 32 the War II presently live in Israel and
number of Soviet Jews detained in in Western countries.
The student organizers said that
recent months, apparently because
they spoke out for the right to emi- Soviet authorities could not dis-
regard
a petition coming from
grate to Israel. The new arrests
\ are significant in that they were heroes in the battle against the
Germans
after it was made public
`made in Kishinev in the Ukraine;
of the 28 arrested previously, only to the rest of the world. The peti-
tion will urge the restoration of
Galperin was from that town.
The new arrests, word of which cultural and religious rights to So-
has just reached Western sources, viet Jews, including the right to
were made shortly after Aug. 15, emigrate to Israel.
The student rally was address-
when the houses;of the four were
searched and—seVeral volumes of ed by Tina Brodetskaya, a Jew-
ish
school teacher front Riga
the Jewish Encyclopedia were con-
fiscated, although there is no ban who recently emigrated to Is-
rael. Miss Brodetskaya was one
against that publication.
of the first Russian Jews to
Of the 32 arrested so far, two
address an open letter to Pre-
have been sentenced.
mier Aleksei Bosnian demand-
The four newly detained Jews
ing her right to emigrate. Soviet
are Arkady Voloshin, David Rabi-
authorities permitted her to
novich, Abraham Trachtenberg and
leave this year. She told the
Harry Kirsiner. It was not imme-
students that Western Jewry,
diately known whether they had
especially the youth, must con-
signed petitions calling for emigra- tinue to agitate publicly for the
tion rights.' They are believed to
rights of Soviet Jews. If they
be in their 20s or early 30s, as is
Galperin.
In Jerusalem, it was reported
that a Jewish physician in Riga
has appealed to Israeli authori-
ties to help him emigrate to
Israel with his young children in
order to join his parents and a
NEW. YORK — Ezrath Nashim
sister already there.
Mental Hospital of Jerusalem,
A letter from Dr. D. Skorokhod under the leadership of Rabbanit
was received by Arieh Eliav, Sarah Herzog, wife of the late
secretary general of the Labor chief rabbi of Israel, has initiated
Party. It was addressed to him programs leading to affiliation with
apparently on the mistaken belief Hebrew University Medical School
that he still held his former post as a teaching hospital.
as deputy minister of immigration.
The first students from both He-
The petitioner wrote that his par- brew University Medical and the
ents were permitted to go to Israel School of Social Work will be ad-
in 1987 to join a sister who lives mitted this fall.
in Jerusalem but all his applica-
Dr. Milton Rosenbaum, psychia-
tions to Soviet authorities have tric consultant to Ezrath Nashim
been rejected. He said he had Hospital and dean of the school of
worked for over 14 years as a phy- social work of Hebrew University
sician in the Yakut area of Siberia has spent the past three months in
and in Riga, "conscientiously justi- the U.S. extolling the plans for
fying the higher education I re- Ezrath Nashim to become a Com-
munity Mental Health Center serv-
ceived in the Soviet Union."
Another Jew from Riga, Eisik ing Jerusalem_
Ezrath Nashim Hospital, founded
Rosin, 22, wrote to Shimon Peres,
minister of transport and posts, 75 years ago, moved to-its present
complaining that the Latvian De- home in suburban Jerusalem in
partment of Visas had told him he 1968. At present, 90 per cent of the
would never be allowed to leave new patients admitted are released
the Soviet Union. In his letter he within three months. - -
Supported by contributions, the
wrote "I want to be with my peo-
ple in Israel," and asked Peres to New York office is ,located at 373
"please forward this letter to any Fifth Ave.

Mental- Hospital
Joins Hebrew U.
to Teach Students

kept silent, she said, it would
troubles of
Jews in Russia.
About 30 Jewish students from
New York area campuses staged a
day-long fast last week at the
Isaiah Wall opposite the Unitcd
Nations building to protest the
treatment of Jews in the Soviet
Union and the refusal of Soviet
authorities to permit those who
wished -to emigrate to Israel to
do so.
The 12-hour fast was organized
by the University Community for
Soviet Jewry and the Student
Struggle for Soviet Jewry. They
called on the UN to take immediate
steps to alleviate the plight of
Soviet Jews and to censure the
Soviet Union for violation of 'the
Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, which guarantees freedom
of emigration.
Rabbi Slalom° Riskin of the
Lincoln Square Synagogue told
the 250 demonstrators and by-
standers that he had just re-
turned from the Soviet Union,
where Jews had told him that
new "show trials" were being
prepared by Soviet officials.
He said he was told that 24 Jews
had been arrested in recent months
without charges being filed against
them and added that Soviet Jews
want fellow Jews abroad to "make
noise" about their plight.
A plane carrying a streamer
with the words "Let Soviet Jews
Go" flew over Amsterdam Tues-
day as Jewish students picketed
the Soviet Trade Mission on be-
half of Soviet Jewry.
The students distributed copies
of letters that two Leningrad Jews
sent to the Soviet Presidium re-
cently protesting the arrests of
fellow Jews.
An estimated 10,•00 persons
massed at Dag Hammaraki•ld
Plaza across from the United'
Nations Sunday.
Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman, chair-
man of the New York Conference
on Soviet Jewry, declared at the
rally: "We are here to say to the
Russian bear, 'Let my people go!"
The "one hope" of those gathered
in the Plaza, he said, was "free-
dom for Russian Jews." Posters
read "United Nations, Please Be
Aware of the Plight of Soviet
Jewry," "Stop Soviet Slavery" and
"No Scapegoat Trials."
Representatives of the New York
Conference dramatized the trial of
Boris Kochubiyevsky, the 34-year-
old Kiev engineer sentenced in
1969 to three years .at forced la-
bor for anti-Soviet "slander."
The Canadian Jewish Congress
will hold a "mass solidarity meet-
ing" in Toronto Nov. 14-15 to re-
affirm its "unlimiting efforts for
the amelioration of our crueltly op-
pressed brethren in Russia," Presi.
dent Monroe Abbey said.
(Students representing the Uni-
versities Committee on Soviet
Jewry picketed the Soviet Em-
bassy in London Sunday and man-
aged to question an embassy sec-
retary on the condition of Jews in
the USSR. They were unable to
see the Soviet ambassador who,
they were told, was at a s meeting.
The embassy secretary agreed to
speak to three of the students and
accepted a letter from them. When
asked about the reported arrests
of Jews in Leningrad, Riga and
elsewhere, he replied that he knew
only what was published in the So-
viet press. Asked whether the de-
tainees would be tried, he said he
did not know of any arrests. He
invited the students to return at
another time to discuss the matter
with him but did not say when he
would be free to receive them.)
Mayor James H. Tate'of Phila-
delphia has declared Sept. 20-Oct.
17 "Soviet Jewry Month."
Mayor Tate scored the "severe
restrictions" on Soviet Jews and
urged Philadelphians of all faiths
to join the fight against that
oppression.

TIE DETROIT JEWISH PEWS

Friday, September 25, 1970-9

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