Detroit Jewry Joins Hands With Soviet Kinsmen

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organizations wilt be represented
at the conference, and the United
Hebrew High School is dispensing
with classes so its students may
attend. A delegation also will be
coming from Windsor.
Daniel Berk, a young Detroit at-
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torney, will describe his experi-
ences in the Soviet Union. (See
story, Page 43.)
Akiva Hebrew Day School mark-
ed Soviet Jewry Week at an as-
sembly Monday, with Rabbi Alfred
Werner explaining the situation of
Soviet Jewry. They participated in

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prayer on behalf of their brethren
and concluded the assembly with
the singing of "Ani Maamin" (I
Believe). Some of Akiva's students
will participate in the torchlight
parade, organized by Project Out-
cry, Sunday night.
Project Outcry 1970, sponsored

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Riga Physician Begs UN to Help Him

A signed letter from a 44-year- try to link the hijacking to an permission for Spkiovsky to emi-
old Riga physician has been alleged hijack attempt at Lenin- grate from the Soviet Union to Is-
brought to the attention of The grad last June for which 30 Soviet rael. The letter will be turned over
Jewish News, following its trans- citizens including an undetermined to Mrs. Rita Hauser, the American
mission to the United Nations and number of Jews were arrested. representative to the UN Commis-
translation from the Russian. The incident was followed by sion on Human Rights for submis-
Mendel Michel Aronovich ap- searches of Jewish homes. It was sion to the UN.
pealed to the UN as "the symbol reported last week that Soviet au-
A bipartisan group of 46 con-
-. of the world's public opinion" and thorities were preparing a "show gressmen has expressed concern
as the last resort to help him leave trial" in an effort to terrorize over the treatment of Russian
for Israel, "a dream which I have Jews and curb their efforts to emi- Jewry in a letter to Soviet Am-
borne in my heart all of my con- grate.)
bassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin..
scions life."
In Tel Aviv, several hundred
The letter, made public Tuesday
Aronovich said that during the Israelis of Russian origin, all of by Rep. Gilbert Gude, a Maryland
past four years he and his family them once prisoners in Soviet de- Republican, referred to reports
have applied many times for an tention camps or foieed labor bat- that Soviet Jews are denied the
exit permit, but each time were re- talions, marched Sunday to pro- religious and cultural rights ac-
fused. "It is not material hardship test the continued arrest and im- corded over minorities in the
which makes me apply to you," he prisonment of Soviet Jews for "be- USRR.
wrote the UN. "I do not suffer ing Zionists, or simply for being
"Regarding these reports, this
from it, neither do I suffer from Jews."
concern is in keeping with a long-
discrimination in any form . . .
The marchers represented the standing and historic American
My only request of you is to help Assirei Zion, the organization of tradition. We ask that you relay
me with the materialization of my former persecuted Jews. Each to your government and to its
legitimate—from a human view- wore the serial numbers he or she leaders this expression of our con-
point—right to depart for the state had in the concentration camps cern," the letter said.
of Israel . . . of Siberia and elsewhere. Many of
The letter was prompted, ac-
"I grew up in the USSR, lived them carried photographs of Rus- cording to its signers, by a dem-
here all my life and bOw before sian Jews known to be imprisoned onstration Oct. 11 by about 1,500
the genius and the greatness of at present and others carried American Jews near the Soviet
the Russian people, but I love placards with the slogans, "Free Embassy here protesting the treat-
ment of Soviet Jews.
Israel like generations of my an- Them, Let Them Go."
In London, the Board of Deputies
"It is our sincere hope," they
cestors loved it and dreamt about
of
British
Jews
will
seek
a
meet-
wrote, "that the Soviet govern-
it," he wrote.
ing
with
Soviet
Foreign
Minister
ment
will assure to its Jewish
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"I consider that in the creation
of the state of Israel, the country Andrei Gromyko to discuss the citizens full enjoyment of the re-
position
of
Soviet
Jewry.
Gromyko
ligious
and cultural rights which,
of the people which gained it
through much suffering, there is scheduled to visit London on his we are sure you will agree, are
return
from
the
UN
General
As-
their
due.
Such assurance would
must also be my share, and that
is why I wish to go to my Home- sembly's 25th anniversary session serve to strengthen the ties be-
in
New
York.
The
spokesman
said
tween our peoples which have
land. It is the country where my
ancestors lived whom I revere, that demonstrations protesting the brought us together in the past."
these are the songs which they treatment of Soviet Jews will take
sang, the language they spoke ..." place here during Gromyko's visit. Book on Soviet Jewry
Aronovich said he was driven by He said there would be a peaceful
dispair to address the UN, "the protest march from a synagogue by Smolar to Be Issued
NEW YORK (JTA)—Publication
standard for morality and the in central London to the Soviet
Embassy Wednesday.
in 1971 of
major book on Soviet
conscience of humanity."
In
New
York,
2,300
persons
Jewry
by Boris Smolar, editor-in-
Meanwhile, a letter from six So-
viet Jews appealing to President cheered Rabbis Herschel Schac- chief emeritus of the Jewish
Nixon for help to emigrate to Is- ter and Steven Riskin in the Telegraphic Agency, was an-
rael was forwarded to the White Hunter College Assembly Hall nounced here by the Macmillan
House by the Anti-Defamation Sunday night as they urged the Co.
creation across the country of
Based on talks wit Soviet of-
League of Bnai Brith.
"Committees for the Release of ficials, writers, students and with
In a covering letter, Seymour
the 32," a reference to the num- Jews from all walks of life, Smol-
Graubard, national ADL chair-
ber of Soviet Jews arrested in ar's book is an anlysis of the prob-
man, said the six wrote "with
recent months.
lems—current and future—faced
the fervent hope that you would
Rabbi Schacter, chairman of the by the Soviet's 3,000,000 Jews.
. respond" and asked the Presi-
dent for "public recognition of American Jewish Conference on
Among the problems covered are
Soviet Jewry, and Rabbi Riskin, whether the word "Jew' will ever
their plight."
According to Graubard, the ap- chairman of Student Struggle, also be eliminated from Jewish identity
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peal was the first from Soviet called for an International Release documents; whether emigration of
Jews directed to President Nixon. Committee composed of lawyers. Jews will be permitted; whether
He said it was brought out of Rus- The auditorium was filled to capa- the restrictions now practiced
city, and hundreds were turned against Jews in some fields of
sia by an American tourist.
Soviet life will ever be lifted. and
The Zionist Organization of away.
Theodore Bikel, actor, folk-sing- how far the Soviet policy of as-
America released a letter from
seven Jews in Moscow stating that er and American Jewish Congress similation of the Jews will go. He
they were "fighting for the right official, called for solidarity with also discusses diverse views on
to emigrate to Israel" and were Soviet Jews and condemned those what can be expected in Soviet-
"being detained by force on the whose extreme actions might en- Israeli relations, including the
territory of the USSR by the Soviet danger the cause. The entertainers opinions offered by a ranking •us-
included Shlomo Carlebach, the sian official.
authorities."
That letter, according to the "singing rabbi"; Jo Amar, an Is-
Smolar, who speaks and writes
ZOA, was addressed to the organi- raeli singer; and the Choreogra- Russian fluently, was a war cor-
zation's executive director, Leon phic Workshop in Jewish Dance.
respondent In Russia during the
The evening's program included first World War. He witnessed
Hutovich. Like the ADL letter, it
was reportedly smuggled out of the word-by-word re-enactment of the fall of the Czarist regime,
the trial of Boris Kochubiyevsky, the birth and fall of the Keren-
Russia by a tourist.
The letter to President Nixon, a courageous Russian Jew tried sky regime, the establishment of
written in English and Hebrew, last year in the same Kiev court- the Bolshevik regime and the
described the signers' vain efforts house as Mendel Beilis and the pogroms on Jews under the Pet-
to emigrate from Russia and de- singing of the Moscow Jewish re- lura regime in the Ukraine.
clared, "in the name of decency, sistance song, "To the Pharaoh."
In 1928, he was sent by the Jew-
In Philadelphia, more than ish Telegraphic Agency and Pulit-
in the name of freedom, in the
name of the One on whom you 5,000 youth and adults, carry- zer's New York World as their
and many of us trust, we are ask- ing banners identifying the more special correspondent to Moscow
ing for help."
than 50 Jewish participating or- and remained there for about two
The letter from the ZOA was ganizations. marched in a mile- years.
written in Russian and contained long parade for Soviet Jewry Sun-
He was instrumental in the re-
New Year greetings "to our breth- day.
lease of prominent rabbis from So-
ren and friends in the United
The parade was the largest dem- viet jails; for the restoration of
States of America and in the entire onstration of its kind in Philadel- full civil rights to hundreds of
world."
phia history, according to Malcolm thousands of Jews who were de-
(A charge that the pair who Hoenlein, director of research and prived of their rights as former
hijacked a Soviet airliner to 'Tur- programing of the Jewish Com- traders, and for the dissolution of
key Oct. 15 were Russian Jews munity Relations Council of Great- the Yevsekzia, the Jewish section
was denied this week as an anti- er Philadelphia.
of the Communist Party, which
Semitic canard.
A letter from E. Spikovsky of was chiefly responsible for the
(Fear was expressed in some Kharkov appealed to the United bitter campaign against Jewish re-
quarters that the Soviets might Nations for assistance in obtaining ligion In the country.

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by Youth Concerned About Soviet
Anti-Semitism, will begin 7 p.m.
at the Dexter-Davison supermar-
ket. Oak Park. The candlelight
procession will proceed half a mile
to Temple Emanu-El, where a pro-
gram on Soviet Jewry will be pre-
sented. The community is invited
to both the march and rally.
Project Outcry 70, draws peril-
pants from many Jewish youth
groups in the community, assist-
ed by the Jewish Center.
Included in the protest march to
Temple Emanu-EI will be songs
and cheers for the Soviet Jews
and signs protesting Soviet anti-
Semitism. Participants are encour-
aged to bring their own signs.
The program arEmanu-E1 will
include a prayer by Rabbi Gerald
A. Teller of Cong. Shaarey Zedek,
a talk by Jay Masserman, a medi-
cal student and youth adviser who
has visited the USSR, a dance to
the poem "Sabi Yar" by the Ha-
bonim Dancers, songs on Soviet
Jewry by HaDor Hadash and a
message from Oak Park Mayor
Joseph Forbes.
It is the Project Outcry par-
ticipants who have been distribu-
ting fact sheets and petitions and
collecting money for the Jews in
the USSR this week.
The Jewish Educators Council of
Metropolitan Detroit, the profes-
sional organization of full-time
heads of Reform, Conservative,
Orthodox, community and day
schools in Metropolitan Detroit,
Flint and Windsor, is introducing
in cooperation with the Jewish
'Community Council an educational
program on the situation of Soviet
Jewry.
The Jewish schools will utilize a
variety of teaching tools, texts,
pamphlets giving the facts on So-
:Viet Jewry today and the disabili-
ties they suffer as well as prepar-
ing different programs to bring the
attention of the American public
to the situation.

THE DETROIT JEW= maws
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Octobw 23;1970

42-Friday,

Joseph Polakoff
Heads Washington
Bureau of JTA

NEW YORK (JTA) — Robert

H. Arnow, president of the Jewish

Telegraphic Agency, announced
Tuesday the appointment of Jo-
seph Polakoff as JTA's Washing-
ton Bureau chief.
In addition to his daily assign-
ments covering the State Depart-
ment, the White House and Con-
gress, Polakoff also will write a
weekly column, "Capital Spot-
light," and report on the Washing-
ton Jewish community. Arnow said
that with the appointment of Pola-
koff, the JTA once again moves
to increase its news coverage of
daily issues and events so vital to
the Jewish community.
Polakoff, a resident of Washing-
ton, was an officer in the foreign
service of the State Department
and the United States Information
Agency with diplomatic rank of
attache for information in London,
Belgrade, Lima and Guatemala
from 1947 to last April.
He also was assistant chief and
chief of the Washington news sec-
tion of the State Department's
information service. As news pol-
icy guidance officer for the USIA
and the State Department, Pola-
koff advised the media operations
of these two organizations, includ-
ing the Voice of America and the
International Press Service, on
current international and domestic
developments.

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