Leningrad Trial Sparks Wide Protest
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He said he was .buoyed by the
"genuine enthusiasm and complete
support" expressed at last week's
convention in Kansas City by the
Council of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds.
Albert D. Chernin, executive di-
rector of the Jewish Community
Relations Council of Greater Phila-
delphia, left for Brussels to help
organize next February's World
Conference on Soviet Jewry, it
was announced by the JCRC. He
will be the only American Jewish
communal representative on the
secretariat. There are expected
to be 150 Americans among the
400 delegates to the conference.
The heads of 27 major American
Jewish organizations have written
to Soviet President Nikolai V.
Podgorny decrying the upcoming
trials of Jewish prisoners as "bas-
ed on. false accusations designed
to repress Jewish consciousness."
They urged him to release the
31 prisoners, who have been held
incommunicado since the alleged.
hijacking of a plane at the Lenin-
grad airport June 15, and to "halt
growing acts of anti-Semitism."
Rabbi Schacter spoke for the 27
organizations in stating that the
arrests and the beating of 16-year-
old Monus Mafpzer of Riga, broth-
er of an arrestee, "buttress our
fears regarding the imminent
show trials." The appeal to Presi-
dent Podgorny said anti-Jewish
discrimination in the Soviet Union
was a "violation of the declaration
of the rights of the peoples of the
USSR and the United Nations
Charter." It added that "Jews who
wish to leave the USSR for Israel
to live as Jews request a basic
human right recognized by your
government."
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, November 27, 1970-5
facing trial. A spokesman for the Egypt's Foreign Debt
city's Jewish community said a
telegram was sent to Washington Now at $2.4 Billion
to Anatoly Dobrynin, Soviet am-
TUNIS (ZINS) — The Tunisian
bassador to the United States, ex- press reports that Egypt's indebt-
pressing solidarity with the So- edness in foreign currency has now
viet Jews.
reached the $2,400,000,000 mark.
Eight Washington, D.C., area
The UAR spent $400,000,000 on its
Jewish students entered the offices
of Tass, the Soviet news agency • ill-fated military intervention in
and chained themselves to each Yemen and suffered thousands of
other in protest against the treat- casualties.
ment of Soviet Jews. The five
The same sources further dis-
young men and three young women close that the UAR now has 1,250,-
were removed forcibly by the po- 000 unemployed with little prospect
lice and dragged from the premises of improving that condition. This
as they shouted "Let my people bleak economic situation is cited
go" and "Help the Jews in Rus- as one of the principal factors be-
sia."
hind Nasser's decision to cooperate
Their removal from the offices
asking them to intercede with the on the second floor of the Na- with the William Rogers peace
Soviet authorities and prevent the tional Press Building was wit- initiative in the hope of ending,
show trial of Jews in Leningrad. nessed by a score of newsmen, once and for all, the interminable
war with Israel.
At the same time in Amsterdam, security officers and Soviet Em-
the Dutch Committee for Solidar- bassy officials.
ity with Russian Jews sent a cable
A spokesman for the demon-
My
to Soviet Prime Minister Alexei strators said they were members
Kosygin also in connection with the of the Washington Committee for
Wife Gives
impending trial. The cable, re- the Release of Captive Soviet
Me- Orders!
calling Kosygin's promise in Paris Jewry and that they had been
My kids give me orders and
in 1966 to allow Soviet Jews to admitted to the Tass offices after
join their families in Israel, pro- knocking on the door. They
my mother - in - law gives me
tested violation of this promise. chained themselves together after
orders. For the best in ad-
hanging
a
red
banner
adorned
Three Amsterdam Jewish stu-
vertising why don't you give
dents and members of the Com- with hammer- and - sickle and
me your order? Call
mittee for Solidarity With Rus- swastika out the window. No in-
Murry Koblin Adv.
sian Jews distributed leaflets juries were reported.
5 4 8 - 5 6 0 0
They were charged with un-
during a ceremony at which a So-
viet admiral and other Soviet na- lawful entry and failure to leave
val personnel laid a wreath at the the premises.
One of the observers was Vladis-
national memorial. The leaflets
protested the treatment of Soviet lay Shimanovsky, a Soviet political
Jews. The police dispersed all the attache. As the students chanted
demonstrators except for the three "One, two, three, four, open up the
prison door/five, six, seven, eight.
held.
up the prison gate," he told
In Des 'Moines a 31-minute open
newsmen:
"It would be inhuman
"Service of Concern" was con-
to send people to a country that is
ducted on the front lawn of Tifer- in
a
state
of
war," alluding to Is-
eth Israel Synagogue to dramatize
the plight of the Soviet Jews rael. He called the demonstration
"part of a vicious camoaign by
certain (American) circles" and
"not just an accident." The Soviet
attache insisted that such demon-
strations "can only hurt, not help,
the situation of Jews in- the Soviet
Union."
A spokesman for the demonstra-
tors said the demonstration was
staged "to attract the journal-
system. We have grown from a istic profession" to the plight of
campus that was a mere dream Soviet Jews. He said 80,400 Soviet
to one which is bursting at the Jewish families have applied for
seams — with tens of buildings and emigration permission. But Shim-
not enough room to accommodate anovsky declared: "Most Jews do
all those who apply for admission. not want to leave the Soviet Union.
We have grown from a small They have higher salaries and bet-
liberal arts college to a full fledged ter education." Dr. Pert interject-
university. We have moved with ed that "This is old Nazi propa-
the times, and with great success." ganda."
(In Brussels, a similar telegram
was sent to President Podgorny by
the Coordinating Committee of
Belgian Jewish Organizations. It
protested the arrests and what it
called intimidation and persecution
of those who have expressed a de-
sire to go to Israel. It compared
tthe Soviet charges against the
prisoners with those of two dec-
ades ago against Jewish doctors
who allegedly had plotted to kill
Stalin.)
In Rome, an appeal was made
by Chief Rabbi Elm Toaff of Rome
and Judge Sergio Piperno, presi-
dent of the Federation of Jewish
Communities, to Pope Paul VI
and Foreign Minister Aldo Moro,
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Bar-Ilan Outlines Its Role
in Current Israel Emergency;
Pleads for Pledges Payments
Phillip Stollman, chairman of the
national board of directors of
American Friends of Bar-Ilan Uni-
versity, in a statement issued this
week clarified the position of the
university in the current critical
period and urged close participa-
tion in the requested efforts for
doubling the United Jewish Appeal
income and the Israel Bond pur-
chases.
Addressing himself to the De-
troiters who had received invita-
tion to the annual dinner which was
canceled for this year in the co-
operative effort with UJA and
Bonds, Stollman appealed for con-
tinued interest in the university
while supporting the major Israel
philanthropic and investment
causes and stated:
"If you have committed your-
self for a gift to the university,
please carry out the terms of your
agreement. We have already al-
located the budget for all ear-
marked projects; finally if you
haven't mentioned Bar-Ilan in your
will—do so now."
In his plea for payment of out-
standing pledges, Stollman called
attention to the university's growth,
stating:
"Bar-Ilan University has grown
with Israel. When the state was
but 7 years old, we 'opened our
doors to a group of 80 students.
Today the student body at Bar-Ilan
is upwards of 5,500 on the main
campus, and including the branches
it is over 6,000; we started out
with a faculty of 20 and today
more than 650 top minds from all
over the world are teaching our
Young. The student body includes
800 Americans. We have pioneered
in a number of areas: social work
education, teaching the handicap-
ed, providing teachers for Israel's
educational system, and this fall
we opened our law school which
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