Youth Organizations Mobilizing
`Project Outcry' for Soviet Jewry
Detroit area Jewish youth organ-
izations are engaged in a unified
effort, "Project Outcry," to make
known the plight of the Jews in the
Soviet Union..
Plans for Project Outcry include
lectures, petition and fund-raising
drives and a rally set for Oct. 25,
the final day of Soviet Jewry Week
in Detroit.
Vulf
Zalmanson
Vladimir
Mogileyer
Big Grapefruit Season
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The grape-
fruit-picking season has begun in
the Beisan Valley, where the
Merrill Kramer , who is coordina- lion, Et Gar, Habonlm, Hashomer climate is hotter than in other
areas of the country. The crop is
ting the project as a representative Hatzair and Hashahar.
of the United Synagogue Youth The groups are concerned that reported to be of greater quantity
Chapter at Shaarey Zedek, reports Soviet Jewry faces extermination and higher quality than last year's.
that the following organizations are of its cultural and religious insti- But the grove owners fear that
taking part in the campaign: USY, tutions. The 3,000,000 Jews , of , the exports may be afecteil by labor
troubles at Israeli ports.
National Conference of Synagogue USSR. have some 65 synagogues
Youth, Michigan State Temple and not a single Yiddish school in
Youth, Bnai Brith Youth Organiza- operation.
Shlomo
Dreisnei
Pictured are 12 of the much larger number of
Soviet Jews arrested during the past several weeks
in a new wave of harassment and arrests of Jews
seeking permission to leave the Soviet Union for
Israel. The photographs were released in the United
States by the American Jewish Conference on Soviet
Myst
Zalmanson
Hilel
Bataan
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Sheraton-Tel Aviv Hotel
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Jewry which is sponsoring a nationwide series of
Simhot Torah demonstrations and observances Oct.
18 to give public expression to the solidarity of
American Jews with the Jews of the USSR and to
demand freedom for Soviet Jews to live as Jews
within the Soviet Union or to leave if they wish.
The North American Jewish
Youth Council serves as coordi-
nating body and clearing house of
25 affiliated national Jewish youth
organizations with a total of 700,-
000 members in the U. S. and Can-
ada, as well as 30 local Jewish
youth councils.
NAJYC is a member of the
Presidents' Conference of Major
Jewish Organizations in the U. S.
and of the American Jewish Con-
ference on Soviet Jewry.
terial assistance, constitute a sin-
gle spiritual whole with the rela-
tives—we correspond regularly in
the Hebrew language, which is not
an official language in the USSR
and the study of which here is con-
nected with difficulties."
Portnoy said that he and his wife
and their relatives were "united by
a general national tradition, which
we shall be able to keep only in
Israel, as well as the national his-
tory and culture of our people?'
reetings
On
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Hubert J. Sidlow
Ben S. Sidlow
Alan Nathan
Theodore "Ted" Isaacs
Catholic Coed Joins Jews
It is well that we know not all
Marvin Shogun
Alexander Sarko
in Protest at Moiseyev
our wishes.—La Rochefoucauld.
Show in Washington
Jerome Solomon
WASHINGTON (JTA)—A New
York Catholic coed joined with a
score of representatives of the
Jewish Community Council in a
demonstration on behalf of Soviet
Jewry at the opening of a two-night
stand here by the Soviet Union's
Moiseyev dance company. Similar
protests have been staged under
Jewish sponsorship in other cities
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Marilyn Coonelly of Suffern,
N. Y., a sociology major at the
American University, said she was
participating in the protest because
"I am interested in people and
hate to see them oppressed any-
where. The Russians won't let the
Jewish people stand up for what
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feel."
The council limited its demon-
included:
strations to distribution of the leaf-
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They were identified as members
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PUT
TOGETHER
and return.
of the Washington Committee for
• Two cocktail parties.
Espo•ls
the Prevention of Genocide and
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said they were protesting the So-
ing open bar and music.
• Baggage transfers and pre-reg-
viet repression of Jews. They were
istration of rooms.
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led from the hall and no arrests
• Tips to skycaps at airport in
Acapulco.
were made.
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writer , Valeriy Aleksandrovich
Portnoy, said his two applications
to the Soviet authorities had been
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rejected because of "the absence
of material and moral dependence
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The facts he continued, were
otherwise, as "we, apart from ma-
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2,000 Youth Leaders to Join D•C. Rally
NEW YORK—More than 2,000
Jewish youth leaders representing
all the national Jewish youth or-
ganizations and local youth coun-
cils throughout the United States
will join the Simhat Torah Mobili-
zation for Soviet Jewry in Wash-
ington, D. C., Oct. 11-12, sponsor-
ed by the North American Jewish
Youth Council.
This was announced by Eric Yof-
fie, chairman of NAJYC, and
Margy-Ruth Greenbaum, co-chair-
man. The youth leaders will join
with members of the Washington
Jewish community in a march of
solidarity with Soviet Jewry, which
will take place near the Soviet
Embassy Oct. 11.
Preceding the march, the parti-
cipants will attend programs spon-
sored in cooperation with the local
community. There will be singing
and dancing before and after the
parade. The next day the youth
leaders will visit the State Depart-
ment and meet with Richard
Davies, deputy assistant secretary
of state for European affairs, and
with Adolph Dubs, country direc-
tor of Soviet Union affairs.
In the morning, they will attend
workshops dedicated to program-
ing Soviet Jewry activities for the
coming year. The Soviet Jewry
Mobilization will conclude with a
candle-lighting gremony and a
hora finale.
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