Russian Jew Rejoices in Tel Aviv
Over Exit From USSR: Svichinsky
Says 400-000 Desire to Emigrate
TEL AVIV (JTA) — "Those
who gave me the permit to go to
Israel may not know it but they
gave me the nicest present one
can get — they gave me new life.
Coming to Israel is the greatest
event in my 40 years of life." So
said Vitaly Svichinsky, the Soviet
Jewish architect who was recently
granted an emigration visa after
continued protest against repres-
sion of Soviet Jewry. He arrived
here Tuesday night with his wife,
Liza, and their two children — Dov,
10, and Geulah, two months.
Replying to questions at the air-
port, Svichinsky said he, thought
he and his family had been al-
lowed to leave the Soviet Union
because of "a combination of world
public opinion, for which I am
most thankful, and the outcry of
Russian Jews themselves." He
stated that "Without this outcry no
Jew would have been permitted to
go out?'
Svichinsky said the Leningrad
trial of Jews and similar trials re-
ported to be upcoming had only
caused Soviet Jews- to step up
their demands to leave the coun-
try. The Muscovite estimated that
400,000 Soviet Jews wanted to go
to Israel right now. Asked why he
had become an activist for Zionism,
Svichinsky replied: "It is a simple
evolution. When you want to get
back your national pride, there
is no other reason. This is the
truth." Nearby his wife, with her
son standing next to her and her
baby in her arms, quietly wept for
joy.
Boris Tsukerman, Soviet Jewish
scientist who arrived here last
week with his wife and two chil-
drn, told of a young couple, Wolf
and Svetlana Zeitlink, who were
denied exit permits because the
man held an essential job at a Mos-
cow scientific institute. "They have
decided now to open their struggle
in the name of their 4-year-old
daughter, to let her grow up in
Israel," Tstskerman said. "Their
struggle is an open one and many
are following them," he added.
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Tsukerman, who received his
exit visa only three days before
he left Moscow on Munday, said
the trials of Russian Jews were
not achieving their purpose. They
are not sowing fear and confusion
among Jews, he said. But, he add-
ed, the trials will continue.
According to Tsukerman the
struggle of Jews inside Russia is
unorganized. "Each one is strug-
gling along but is conscious of the
support of many others," he said.
Asked if he thought that demon-
strations of support in Israel and
other countries helped the cause
of Soviet Jewry, he said he "could
not judge" but did know that
"these demonstrations are a source
of encouragement to Soviet Jews."
Grischa Feigin, the Riga Jew re-
cently released from a mental in-
stitution, obtained an exit visa and
will soon come to Israel, friends at
Kibutz Bar-Am reported. They
said they had received a letter
from Feigin stating that he ex-
pected to leave Russia shortly.
"I hope we shall see each other
soon in Israel, our fatherland," he
wrote.
Feigin, a World War II hero,
was committed to a mental home
on Dec. 18 after he returned his
Soviet combat medals in protest
against official anti-Semitic poli-
cies. He was released on Jan. 7.
Move to Help Migrants
Launched in Miami
MIAMI (JTA) — A movement
calling itself "The Key to Free-
dom," organized to help Soviet
Jews emigrate to Israel, was
launched in Miami. The organiza-
tion projects an eventual member.
ship of 1,000,000. According to
Rabbi Tibor H. Stern of the Jacob
Cohen Community Synagogue,
nondenominational, nonprofit and
"definitely nonviolent." Each mem-
ber will be presented with a
key as a "symbol of commitment
to open gates of prisons and tear
down the Iron Curtain that pre-
vents people from living in free-
dom in the country of their heri-
tage," according to the announce-
ment.
One of the primary purposes of
the movement will be to collect
funds which will be - turned over
to the "responsible Jewish lead-
ership to use to the best advantage
for the repatriation and rehabili-
tation of the people who secure
exit visas from Russia."
Rabbi Stern will participate
soon in a world conference to be
called for the activation of plans
to free Russian Jews.
UN Human Rights Unit
Urged to Support Migration
Rights for Soviet Jews
NEW YORK (JTA) — Dr. Joac-
him Prinz, chairman of the govern-
ing council of the World Jewish
Congress, called on the United Na-
tions Commission on Human Rights
to give top priority at its upcoming
Geneva meeting to the question of
the right to emigration from any
country. In a specific reference to
the Soviet Union, Dr. Prinz said
"It is a complete negation of the
spirit of the Universal Declaration
(of Human Rights) when persons
fighting for the right to leave their
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It is also, he said, "a grotesque
mockery of the moral judgment
of the international community
when persons applying for emigra-
tion documents are penalized by
deprivation of nationality or dis-
missal from employment."
Recalling "the part played by the
Soviet Union in the creation of the
state of Israel and the vital diplo-
matic support of the Soviet Union
in the first months of Israel's exis-
tence when it was fighting for its
life." Dr. Prinz said it was "a mat-
ter of the deepest regret to all of
us that the present attitudes of the
Soviet leaders are impossible to
reconcile with the attitudes of that
era."
The American Jewish Congress
Soviet Jewry "hot line" — a re-
corded telephone message that
gives callers up-to-date information
on the situation of Soviet Jews and
word of local efforts in their be-
half is getting more than 5,000
calls a week in four of the nation's
major cities. Mrs. Saul Beckman
of Philadelphia, co-chairman of
the organization's national commit-
tee on Soviet Jewry, told a meet-
ing of the Congress governing coun-
cil that special "hot line" numbers
in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia
and Miami were each tallying well
over 1,000 calls per week.
Additional hot lines will short-
ly be installed in Cleveland and
San Francisco.
Restrictions Emphasized
by Soviet Officials
LONDON (JTA) — Soviet Jews
may emigrate only if they "have
valid reasons," Soviet officials
were understoon to have told a
delegation of members of Parlia-
ment in the Soviet Embassy this
week. The six-member delegation
was received by a Soviet editor. A.
Efimov, an embassy counselor,
and a press attache.
The Soviet officials were re-
ported to have evaded questions
about future trials of Soviet Jews,
repeating: "We have our laws and
our own courts."
They reportedly were unable to
name an active Jew in a respon-
sible official capacity in the Sov-
iet Union.
The parliamentary delegation,
led by Greville Janner, included
Mrs. Jill Knight, Maurice Edelman,
Patrick Cormack, Fergus Mont-
gomery and Brian Walden.
'Selective Force Sometimes
Necessary,' Say 2 Activists
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The.
Southern California Council for
Soviet Jews and the California Stu-
dents for Soviet Jews, which have
engaged in "friendly and reason-
able" protests against Soviet anti-
Semitism, asserted that "Mindless
violence is deplorable and to be
avoided, but selective discriminat-
ing force is sometimes necessary."
-Si Frumkin, chairman of the
SCCSJ, and Zev Yaroslaysky, head
of the CSSJ, protested the con-
demnation of the Jewish Defense
League by what they called the
"establishment" Jewish organiza-
tions.
(Pressure of public opinion ap-
parently also brought results in
the commutation of the death sen-
tence of Vitautis Simoikaitis, the
Lithuanian who tried to hijack - a
Soviet plane, to 15 yearS' imprison-
ment. The American Jewish Com-
mittee was among the organiza-
tions that protested the death sen-
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West Bank Hoarding Reported
Before Cease Fire Expiration
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli peared to be a general belief that
officials reported Tuesday that there would not be a resumption of
there had been hoarding by some warfare. A publiC' opinion poll
residents of the West Bank, ap- published Monday indicated that
parently in anticipation of possible 45 per cent of Israelis -believe
shortages in the event the current there will not be a renewal of
cease fire was not extended after shooting, 20 per cent said they
felt there would be more fighting.
its expiration today.
One report from East Jerusalem and the rest expressed the hope
indicated heavy purchases in there would not be a resumption
wheat, flour, rice and sugar dur- of the warfare.
ing the past week. A brisk
An East Jerusalem newspaper
business also had been reported columnist, Mohammed Abu Shel-
in trade in Jordanian dinars with baya, writing in Tuesday's issue
the black market price soaring.
of "AI Quds" criticized the Jor-
However, most observers were danian Information Service for
reported to believe that most West allowing the broadcast of songs
Bank Arabs are not greatly wor- calling for the extermination of
ried about the future and that life Jews. He said this was a repeti-
appears to be going on normally tion of the pre-1967 activities of
in the main population centers in extremist Arab leaders.
Judea and Samaria. They said
Arab "intellectuals" in the West
Bank consider Friday a kind of
turning point in Israel Arab rela-
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