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 Page 4 THE JEWISH NEWS 1 2 0 Michigan Weekly :1 Review of Jewish News ' Hanuka Greetings to Jewish Communities Everywhere Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. LVIII. No. 15 .04:e3.. 27 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd., Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075, 356-8400 $8.00 Per Year; This Issue 25c 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 (Continued on Page 5) 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 (Continued on Page 16) 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."