DI. Denies Bombing Communist Headquarters NEW YORK (JTA) — The Man- America, and Dr. David Hunter, hattan headquarters of the Ameri- deputy general secretary of the can Communist Party was rocked National Council of Churches. by a bomb blast early Tuesday Snarl came to shout and push morning, damaging the building's came to shove as a delegation of first floor windows and public en- Jewish leaders clashed verbally trance doorway. The blast was the and physically at high noon with latest in a series of bombings officials of the Communist Party which have been touched off in So- USA over the issue of Soviet viet installations or Communist- Jewry. The delegation had come affiliated organizations in recent to present a petition to party sec- months. The blast was reported to retary Gus Hall. the offices of United Press Inter- Before the Jewish delegation had national -and Associated Press by even arrived, and with most of an unidentified caller who said: those present members of the print "The Communist Party building and broadcast media, a spokesman has just been bombed. Let the for the Communist Party charged tools and lackeys who throw our brethren into jail know that they, out of 'the front door of the party's brownstone headquarters on Man- too, are responsible for the actions hattan's west side, waved his fist, of those who they support. Let our called those assembled "anti- people go. Never again." Soviet," "anti-Communist" a n d Although that slogan is associ- "racist." ated with the Jewish Defense He demanded that they "go out League, a spokesman for the group denied its involvement in the and shout for the freedom of An- gela Davis," the black militant on bombing. • trial in California for conspiracy "We had no involvement in the in a courtroom shooting incident. bombing," said Lawrence Fine, There had, in fact, been no shout- executive director of the JDL, "al- ing or other noise to .that point. though we do support the actions The party spokesman, Claude of those who have acted out their Lightfoot, is himself black. After embitterment towards the Soviet he closed the door behind him, the Union. We believe that many Jews Jewish group arrived, headed by have become radicalized and will Richard Cohen, associate execu- do anything to express their out- tive director of the American Jew- rage at the treatment of Soviet ish Congress and spokesman for Jewry. We applaud the action." the New York Conference on Soviet Fine also expressed his belief Jewry. After reading the petition that the party or parties respon- aloud, Cohn taped it to the door sible for the bombing had timed of the brownstone and knOcked the action to coincide with the on the door. Lightfoot re-emerged, opening of the Communist Party tore the petition from the door, Congress in Moscow. "We believe crumpled it and threw it to the that whoever has done this is say- ground, while with one hand ing to the Communist Party Con- against Cohen's waist he launched gress we do not acknowledge your into a verbal tirade against the oivressive regime and we will do delegation, calling them "Fascist anything to liberate our brothers." JDL people" (the Jewish Defense :.No comment was immediately League was not represented) and available from the Communist exclaiming: "You go to Israel and Party headquarters. Meanwhile, get off the backs of the Arabs, a police spokesman declined to de- that's what you do!" scribe the nature of the explosive The delegation had been refused and told the JTA that no clues an appointment to talk to Commu- leading to the identity of the bomb- nist Party officials, according to ers had yet been found. He also Cohen. Lightfoot further accused disclosed that minor damage the demonstrators: "You aren't do- had been inflicted on a church di- ing a damned thing about black rectly opposite the Communist people!" and insisted: "Go down building and a store nearby. to Mississippi where you belong!" Community Council Appeals The Jewish leaders shouted back to U.S. Communist Party that American Jewry has been in- The Detroit Jewish Community strumental in the struggle of Amer- Council has urged that American ican blacks. Communist Party leaders use their Lightfoot retorted that Israel influence with Soviet authorities to was "keeping the Arabs in slavery," lift the restrictions on the free ex- to which Cohen replied: "Lies! pression of Jewish life in the US- Slander! Lies!" Another black SR and to perinit Jews to emigrate man, chewing on a wooden swizzle freely from the Soviet Union. stick, emerged from the party Communist Party leaders from building to aid Lightfoot, who was many countries, including the U.S., charging the demonstrators with are attending the Soviet Commu- trespassing. The second man warned nist Party Congress in Moscow the Jews to "Go ahead before you this week. In a wire to Gus get your - - - handed to you!" The Hall, chairman of the Corn- incident broke up quickly as the munist Party of the USA, the Com- demonstrators left. During his con- munity Council urged that Ameri- frontation with Lightfoot and other can delegates to the party congress Communist Party leaders, Cohen call on Soviet leaders to lift the was nearly toppled from the stoop oppressive treatment of Jews by the Soviet Union. Action by the Community Coun- Tut I Am a Jew,' cil was prompted by the fact that Pleads Caught Arab some Communist parties, notably TEL AVIV (JTA) — When is a those of England, France and Italy, spoke out against Soviet treatment Jew not a Jew? When he is a of Jews at the time of the Lenin- Palestinian terrorist posing as a grad trial, and criticized the death Jew in order to get into Israel. sentences and the severity of other Among the four terrorists cap- sentences originally imposed by tured March 22 in the major en- the Leningrad court. These sen- counter on the Golan Heights in tences were subsequently reduced. which four of his fellows were killed, there was one who contend- Religious Leaders Call ed that he was a Yemenite Jew on Communist Party Congress NEW YORK — The religious who had concluded that the best heads of Orthodox, Conservative way to get a piece of the good life and Reform Judaism called upon in Israel was to pose as a terror- ist and cross the border. the congress of the Communist This he had done, complete with Party of the USSR, on the eve of rifle and explosives. its meeting in Moscow, to elimi- The Israeli officer in charge of nate "the cruel vestiges of Stalin's the four prisoners decided to test rule" against more than 3,000,000 him. First he asked him to read Soviet Jews and asserted that "the from a Hebrew Bible, but the man time has come for review of all opened it from the left. Then the Soviet policy toward Jews since officer asked him to recite some 1948." Hebrew words, which he was un- The appeal was delivered to the able to do. Finally the officer Soviet embassy by an interreli- asked him to complete the sen- gious delegAtion that included tence beginning "Shema Yisroel Rabbi Solomon J. Sharfman, presi- . . .," but he could not do it and dent of the Synagogue Council of quickly confessed. of the party headquarters. There were no policemen on the scene. There will be a "major freedom rally" in support of Soviet Jews at the United Nations on April 4. Leaders of American academic life called upon the Soviet Commu- nist Party to endorse a four-part program to relieve the plight of Soviet Jewish citizens. Prof. Hans J. Morgenthau, chairman of the 5,000-member Academic Commit- tee on Soviet Jewry and professor of political science at City College of New York and Chicago Univer sity-, made public the texts of let- ters addressed to Leonid I. Brezh- nev, general secretary of the Corn- munist Party of the Soviet Union, and to Communist party leaders in 12 Western nations. Two Jews in the Urals city of Sverdlovsk were arrested by Soviet authorities recently after they sent letters to Premier Alexei Kosygin and Communist Party General Sec- retary Leonid I. Brezhnev protest- ing the impending trials of Jews in Leningrad and Riga, the JTA learned from reliable sources. The arrests took place on March 17 The men were identified as Val- ery Kukui and Yuli Kosharovski. The latter was sentenced to 15 days in the workhouse on- charges of "hooliganism." Kukui also was sentenced to a jail term of un- known duration. Both men report- edly were leaders of a group of nine Jews in Sverdlovsk who have been protesting the Leningrad trial. The sources said that the homes of each member of the group were searched by Soviet police. More than 100 members of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry confronted officials of the Com- munist Party USA Tuesday in what Glenn Richter, SSSJ na- tional coordinator, called "an hour-long shouting match." The students attempted to pre- sent the officials with petitions on behalf of Soviet Jewry signed by 30,000 Americans during the past three days. The petitions were re- fused by Lightfoot. Lightfoot again charged the demonstrators with being members of the Jewish De- fense League and with ignoring the plight of Angela Davis. "The issue," Richter told the JTA "is not the JDL. The issue is not Angela Davis. The issue is Soviet Jews." Informed sources told the JTA that a 48-year-old Jewish physi- cian was arrested in Tzernowitz in the Ukraine two weeks ago after unsuccessfully applying for an exit visa. He was identified as Dr. Haim Renert, a gynecolo- gist. The source said that four of the 30 Jews jailed after a protest last week at the offices of the chief Soviet prosecutor, Roman A. Rud- enko, have been separated from their fellow prisoners. The four were identified by their last names only as Prestin, Zand, Slapak and Polsky. They had been sentenced to 15-day terms on charges of "hooliganism." The source said their removal from the Moscow jail to an unknown place of deten- tion was unusual considering the short sentences and was "omi- nous." 20—Friday, April 2, 1971 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Israel Referees a Minor 'Holy War' JERUSALEM—The Israeli gov- ernment intervened to prevent violence between two rival Chris- tian sects here each of whom holds a claim to sacred sites in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.... For more than a century, the Coptic Church maintained two chapels and allegedly barred ad- mittance to those of the Abyssinian Church. Under the direction of Prime Minister Golda Meir, the Abyssinians were given the chapel keys and the Copts were guaran- teed access. This is the first time that Israel has intervened in a church dis- pute, and bitterness over the out- come is expected from the Copts. The Egyptian-based Copts charge that Israel is more sympathetic to the Ethiopian-based Abyssinians because of political preference. On Easter 'Day, 1969, Israeli police broke up street fighting and stone throwing between the two Orthodox church sects. Finest in Eye Wear! Complete Prescriptions Filled Lab on premises for fast service 18437 W. 8 Mile Rd. Parking in Rear RETAIL & WHOLESALE LARKINS OPTICIANS • 255-2530 11th ANNUAL ISRAEL 7 Weeks $940 Bar Mitzvah Pilgrimage A unique educational experience for boys and girls of Bar Mitzvah age this July and August. Rich, religious, educational and cul- tural program designed to acquaint participants with Israel, its people and culture. 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