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Get-Tough Campaign
to Be Waged on JDL
his conversation with Verontsov,
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the Russian told him that about
in the Russian language."
(New York City Hall sources 900 Jews left Russia "recently"
through
normal channels but did
said Tuesday that Mayor John V.
Lindsay has embarked on a "get not say over what period. He ad-
tough" policy against the JDL mitted that sometimes there were
which 'included a directive to Cor - "bureaucratic delays" but insisted
poration Counsel J. Lee Rankin to that the bulk of Russian Jews do
study the pOssibility of obtaining not want to leave.
a court injunction against acts of JDL Condemned in Israel
harassment by the organization. by Leading Newspapers
Rankin was said to be reviewing JERUSALEM (JTA)—The tac-
the penal codes provisions dealing tics of the Jewish Defense League
with conspiracy and harassment, were roundly condemned by lead-
both . potential criminal matters ing Israeli newspapers Wednesday.
that could be referred to the dis- The Histadrut daily Davar en-
trict attorney's office. Police Corn - dorsed President Nixon's statement
missioner Patrick Murphy was re- to American Jewish leaders that
ported to have ordered a depart- his administration will do all it can
mental policy in line with Mayor to prevent violence against Soviet
Lindsay's directive Monday to be institutions in the United States.
"as alert and forceful as neces- Davar said that "the Jewish De-
sary" in d"aling with the JDL.)
tense League or any other group
Department spokesman using violence is at fault. They do
State
King said that since last Saturday not help but harm a just cause
there have been no new incidents which they want to serve by the
of harassment of American citi- wrong means. They interfere with
zens in Russia. He said the cam the united effort that is being
paign of retaliation for anti Soviet I carried on with zeal and devotion
acts in the U. S. appeared to be I by legitimate means and is show-
ing signs of success."
"tapering off."
The Socialist newspaper Lamer-
A high-ranking Soviet diplo-
mat told Pennsylvania's Sen. hay observed: "Even immigrants
Richard S. Schweiker Tuesday from the Soviet Union believe that
that Israel was trying to create the JDL clashes can only sabotage
a rift between Washington and the just struggle for Soviet Jewry."
Moscow and that the anti-Soviet Al Hamishmar, organ of Mapam,
campaign based on the alleged said: "While the league - sets itself
mistreatment of Jews in Russia up as a defender of the Jews, it
emanated from Israel. Sen. sticks a knife in the back of the
Schweiker, a Democrat, told the campaign being waged on behalf
Jewish Telegraphic Agency of of Soviet Jewry."
Two Orthodox newspapers also
his conversation Tuesday morn-
log with Yuli Vorontsov, the assailed the JDL, which has been
strongly
supported by certain
charge d'affaires at the Soviet
embassy who is the embassy's Orthodox elements in the United
States.
Hamodia,
organ of Agudat
highest ranking officer in the
absence of Ambassador Anatoly Israel, said: "The President of the
United States cannot stand calmly
F. Dobrynin.
Sen. Schweiker said he visited by while an extremist group sabo-
the embassy in advance of a peti- tages relations between his coun-
tion signed by 20,000 Philadelphians try and the Soviet Union." Shearim,
of all faiths urging emigration organ of Poalei Agudat Israel, ob-
rights for Soviet Jews and the re- served that "decades of struggle
lease of Russian Jews recently notwithstanding, Jews in Israel
sentenced to prison terms or fac- have never once been tempted to
ing trial. When the petition was emulate their enemies' methods.
delivered by a three-man delega- This is not the way Jews fight and
tion, the diplomatic duty officer therein lies their strength."
(Moscow's Chief Rabbi Yehuda
refused to accept it and threaten-
ed to call the police if it was left Leib Levin signed a petition
on a table in the embassy hall. Tuesday accusing militant Jew-
Monday, the press counselor of ish groups in the U. S. of "emu-
the embassy refused to accept a lating fascists" in their tactics
similar petition signed by 700 The petition, which also carried
American scientists of the National the signatures of three lay lead-
Institute of Health, Catholic Uni- ers of Moscow's Jewish commu-
versity and the University of nity, said Soviet Jews did not
want such "unsolicited protec-
Maryland.
Sen. Schweiker said Verontsov tors.
(Rabbi Meir Kahane, chairman
told him that the anti-Soviet cam-
paign stemming from the Lenin- of the JDL, plans to emigrate to
grad trial last month was "trump- Israel next August because "he is
ed up" in Israel and in the U. S. very pessimistic about the destiny
He insisted that the Leningrad de- of Jews in America," his father,
fendants were tried for attempting Rabbi Charles Kahane, told New
to hijack a Soviet airliner, and the York newsmen Tuesday. Kahane
fact they were Jewish had nothing must appear in court on Jan. 19
to do with the case. He said Israel for arraignment on charges of dis-
wanted to stir up trouble between orderly conduct and incitement to
the United States and the Soviet riot. He was in Israel a week ago
Union in order to delay a peace on what was described as a private
settlement in the Middle East. He visit. Some sources said he was
also said that Israel was pressing dickering for a post with the right-
for Jewish emigration from Rus- wing Herut faction. Kahane has an
apartment in Jerusalem. A brother,
sia because it needs manpower.
The delegation that visited the Nahman, Is employed by the reli-
gious
affairs ministry.)
embassy after Sen. Schweiker left,
Another letter from a Soviet
was received by the duty officer.
He parried their questions Jewish family appealing for assist-
about Jewish emigration rights ance in emigrating to Israel has
by observing that Russia had been received by Premier Golda
friendly relations with the Arab Meir. The signatory's full name
states and didn't want to "harass and address was given as Shtrom
-
-
them," presumably by permit-
ting large numbers of Soviet
Jews to go to Israel. He said
there were no Hebrew schools in
Moscow, which has a Jewish
population of MAO, because it
was net possible to have schools
for every nationality. He said he
would not accept their petition
and if they left it, he would "call
the policeman outside." Rabbi
Greenberg said later that the
petition would be mailed to the
embassy.
Sen. Schweiker said that, during
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Khasya Meerovna, 63 Surorova
Street, ApL 23, Riga, Latvian So-
viet Republic. In her letter, Mrs.
Meerovna writes that in May
1969, she and her family were re-
fused an exit permit to go to Israel
to rejoin their only surviving rela-
tives who reside there. She had
submitted applications for the per-
mit since 1964 and all were con-
sistently refused. Her husband, a
former prisoner in a Nazi concen-
tration camp, had died in 1953 and
she was alone now with her daugh-
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