Christians' Cards Plead
Cause of USSR Jews

Church leaders across the nation have
have joined together, asking Christians to
send Christmas cards to Ambassador Dobrynia
at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, marked
"Let the Jews Go!" The project, initiated
last year in San Francisco by Harold B.
Light, chairman of the Bay Area Council
on Soviet Jewry, was announced recently at
Grace Cathedral by the Rt. Rev. C. Hamer
Myers, bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Cali-
fornia, (left), and Rev. Russell Orr, execu-
tive minister of the American Baptist Church.
Light reported that the National Council of
Churches and Conference of Bishops had
readily cooperated, sending bulletins through-
out the United States to mobilize congrega-
tions and schools and colleges.

Amicability
in • Season
of Good Will

Rebellious
Youth and the
Home Factor

Editorials
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December 25, 1970

Death Sentences Asked by USSR
Prosecutor at Leningrad Trial;
World Protests Are Still Mounting

$20,649,000 Seen as PosSible
Allied Campaign Goal in 1971

Based on estimates of needs by the local and national agencies supported
by the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, as outlined at the annual pre-
campaign budgeting conference, Sunday, at the Jewish Center, the goal for
the 1971 Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund could be set at
$20,649,000.
In his analysis of the requests made by spokesmen for the various cam-
paign divisions, William Avrunin, executive vice president of Federation,
explained that as against the $7,930,311 allocated for Israel and overseas
needs by the combined campaign in the current year, the request in the
coming year will be for $16,000,000 from Detroit Jewry in accordance with
decisions for double giving towards the $400,000,000 goal for the United
Jewish Appeal.
In the local operating categories, the sum of $2,790,000 is requested for
health and welfare, education, community relations and central services.
This would represent an increase of $697,435 over 1970. Only in the health
and welfare division has the request been for drastic increases, from $923,099
to $1,533,000.
An increase of $50,500 was asked for national agencies, from $308,500
to $359,000.
The sum of $1,500,000 was requested by Irving Rose for capital needs funds.
With Alan E. Schwartz, Federation president, presiding, the needs in
the coming year were elaborated upon by spokesmen for various divisions.
The major funds that are to be raised, for the United Jewish Appeal and
related overseas needs—including the Joint Distribution Committee, ORT,
HMS and other urgent needs—were explained in addresses by Morris Fish-
man and Maxwell Shaye, who have been named co-chairmen of the 1971
Allied Jewish Campaign.
Elaborating upon their experiences on their very recent Israel visit,
they joined with Avrunin in indicating the urgency of complying with the
request for double giving toward the set goal of $400,000,000 for the UJA for
the coming year.
In behalf of the Federation staff, Samuel Cohen gave an analysis of the
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NEW YORK (JTA)—The two Leningrad defendants for whom the death
penalty was asked Monday by Chief Soviet Prosecutor R. Rudenko are Maj. Mark
Dymshitz, charged with being the instigator of the alleged June 15 hijacking at-
tempt, and Edvard Kuznetsov. If convicted they would face a firing squad. Dymshitz
reportedly confessed that he planned the alleged hijacking to escape what he
called Soviet anti-Semitism and fly to Israel. Kuznetsov reportedly told the three-
man court—composed of a judge and two laymen — that although his passport
identifies him as a Russian he now preferred to be known as a Jew. The trial
is being held behind closed doors, and foreign newsmen are barred. All 11 de-
defendants in the current trial—nine of them Jews—are charged with"banditry
and treason," although they were seized before their alleged attempt to take over
an airliner at Smolny Airport. Around 20 more defendants are scheduled to be
tried in Leningrad Dec. 29 and in Riga and Kishinev in early 1971.
Prosecutor Rudenko reportedly demanded 15 years at hard labor for Josef
Mendelovich and Yuri Fedorov, 14 years for Alexander Murzhenko, 13 years for
Leib Khanokh, 12 years each for Boris Pestner, Anatoly Altman and Isaac Zal-
inanson, 10 years for Silva Zalmanson Kuznetsov and five years for Mendal
Bodnia. Fedorof and Muzhenko are non-Jews. The names of two, Mendelovich
and Isaac Zalmanson had not been reported before.
Wolf Zalmanson, believed earlier to be a defendant, is now believed to be
under court martial. The ages of five of the defendants are known—Altman, 38,
Bodnia, 33, Wolf Zalmanson, 31, Khanokh, 26, and Mendelovich, 23. Five are
known to be from Riga, Latvia—Altman, Khanokh, Kuzetsov, Mendelovich and
Wolf Zalmanson. The wife of Edvard Kuznetsov was known in June to be preg-
nant. Another prisoner in custody, Meri (Mrs. Leib) Khanokh, also is pregnant.
At Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women Monday night, several
hundred students held a 90-minute silent vigil on behalf of the Leningrad prison-
ers. Rabbi Avi Weiss of the college and Glenn Richter, national coordinator of the
Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, read eye-witness accounts of Soviet oppression
and a letter from 44 Soviet Jews declaring that when people are thrown into
prison for their convictions, "it is evil." Richter described the vigil as "deathly
serious."
A peaceful march up Madison Avenue by an estimated 10,000 persons to
protest the Leningrad trial and the treatment of Soviet Jewry, ended in a near

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Congress Approves $500,000,000 in Military Credits for Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Senate
amendment, submitted by Sen. Mike

Voted 72.22 to pass President Nixon's $1,-
035,000,000 supplementary foreign military
aid bill, clearing the way for an appropria-
tion measure for the $500,000,000 in milt -
tarY aid to Israel authorized earlier. The
Senate-House conference committee acted
favorably on the measure.
Earlier, by a vote of 60-22, the Sen-
ate refused to add restrictions on military
aid to Israel in an amendment providing
restrictions on aid to Cambodia. The

Gravel, Democrat of Alaska, sought to
delete the administration's $285,000,000
supplementary aid request for Cambodia
from its over-all $1,035,000,000 military aid-
request package. The package includes
$500,000,000 for Israel, $30,000,000 for Jor-
dan and $5,000,000 for Lebanon.
Sen. John J. Williams, Republican of
Delaware. proposed that the legislation
include language barring American sol-
diers and advisers from Israel as well as

from Cambodia. Sen. Williams, who is
retiring this year, is known for opposition
to aid for Israel.
Sen. John Sherman Cooper, Kentucky
Republican, responded that there was
"quite a practical difference" between
Israel and Cambodia, noting that there
was no likelihood of American troops
being sent to Israel and that she has not
requested them.
Sen. Frank Church, Democrat of Idaho,

advised Sen. Williams that including re-

strictions on aid to Israel could mean
defeat for the entire measure.
Sen. Williams was supported by Sen.
J. W. Fulbright, Democrat of Arkansas
and chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee. Sen. Fulbright, who opposed
credits for Israel when the measure was
introduced in September, said the Wil-
liams position was "consistent with the
often-expressed view that the United
States should not enlarge its commit-
ments qverseas."