THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
22—Friday, April 30, 1911
Rigerman Urges Greater Effort for Soviet Jewry
(Continuer from Page 16)
on behalf of freedom for their
Soviet brethren.
"In the Soviet Union," he told
Southfield-Lathrup High School 10 activist leaders of the Center
will host a preview performance for Russian Jewry, "128 Jews had
of the musical "GUYS AND the courage to stage a demonstra-
DOLLS" 8 p.m. today in the new ion in the offices of the Supreme
school auditorium. Public perform- Soviet, and in great New York
ances will be held 8 p.m. Saturday, City with 3,000,000 Jews only a
Thursday, and May 7 and 8. Seats few thousand come to a protest
are reserved. For ticket informa- meeting. This is a tragedy, and
tion, call the school, 353-8300, ext. our main enemy is the idea that
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it won't help anyway.
"The whole problem of the Jews
JAMES GOLDWASSER of Wayne of the Soviet Union is underesti-
State University and the Society of mated for lack of information. I
Arts and Crafts, will read the first anticipate the situation when we
chapter of his recently completed will have no information at all
novel, "Condolences," 8 p.m. May coming out of the Soviet Union,
12 in the Hilberry Lounge of the and the same situation will be re-
WSU Center Building, sponsored peated as it was in Germany in
by the Miles Modern Poetry Com- 1932."
mittee.
To illustrate his fears, he cited
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the "very sinister development"
The SCANDINAVIAN SYMPHO- of reported March 13 murders of
NY ORCHESTRA's "An Evening two Jews in Minsk "in the same
of Musical Favorites," featuring manner in which they killed
the Arpi Swedish and the Fin- Mikhoels, also in Minsk." He was
landia Male Choruses, will be held referring to Solomon (Shlomo)
8:20 p.m. Saturday in the Henry Mikhoels (real name Solomon
Ford High School auditorium.
Vovsi), a noted Russian actor and
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director who represented the war-
The Allen Rubiner Gallery will time Jewish Anti-Fascist Commit-
host a two-man exhibition, "Small tee and was killed during the
Water Colors and Ceramic Forms" Stalinist purges at the age of 58.
by SUSAN BOLT, and "Woven
"It began with Mikhoels in
Hangings" by WILLIAM HORNING 1948," Rigerman declared, "and
7-10 p.m. today through May 21. the 23 in 1952. Now 78 Jews are
Miss Bolt teaches ceramics at Oak in jail . . . By protesting and
Park High School. Mr. Horning is stretching out our helping hand to
an art instructor at Vaughan the Jews who are fighting, we are
School, Bloomfield Hills.
helping and supporting those who
a.
are sure to come and take their
The Broadway and Hollywood place in the movement."
Rigerman • called for the sending
comedy hit, A THOUSAND
CLOWNS, is the season's seventh of protest letters with "strong con-
production at Meadow Brook Thea- tent" to Soviet authorities via reg-
ter. Herb Gardner's laugh smash istered mail. He also urged Jewry
about a lovable eccentric and his to "make gentile organizations all
12-year-old nephew opened Thurs- over the world care about this
day at Meadow Brook Theater, problem," and to launch a series
of "nationwide demonstrations."
Oakland- University.
Rigerman, who obtained U.S.
citizenship last Dec. 19 and ar-
Zionist Census to Close
rived in New York Feb. 20, said
May 15, Groups Warned the Center for Russian Jewry and
its youth wing, the Student Strug-
NEW YORK (ZINS) — The gle for Soviet Jewry, were the only
global Zionist count in the current "really effective" American groups
membership campaign—which will working on behalf of Soviet Jews.
serve as the basis for election of
The Soviet emigre warned in his
delegates to the World Zionist Con- 40-minute talk that Soviet psy-
gress—will officially come to an chiatrists were developing a drug
end May 15, according to a spokes- to inject into incarcerated Jews to
man for the Jewish Agency Execu- "cure them from their desire to
tive.
be Jewish."
On April 5, a reliable Jewish
Only those enrolled as Zionists
will be entitled to vote in the Con- source unconnected with the Cen-
gress elections; and those parties ter for Russian Jewry told the
and groups failing to obtain a mini- JTA that when a sane person is
mum number of ballots will not sent to a Soviet asylum it is to
drug him to "break him mentally."
be seated.
The agenda for the World Zion- Russian Emigre Says Hebrew
ist Congress will be fixed by the Is Taught at Institutions
Zionist Actions Committee, sched- of Higher Learning
LONDON (JTA) — The Hebrew
uled to begin its meetings in Jeru-
language is taught at the Univer-
salem June 20.
sity of Moscow and other institu-
tions of higher learning in the So-
Fashion Show Raises
viet Union but is unavailable to
students at lower levels except
$750,000 in Israel Bonds from
private tutors.
NEW YORK (JTA) — An all-
Hebrew books from Israel ar-
Israel fashion show and luncheon rive by normal mail without inter-
helped to mobilize more than $750,- ference, yet books from Israel
000 for the economic development have been confiscated from the
of Israel through the sale of Israel homes of some Russian Jews.
Bonds. The event, which honored
The paradoxical situation was
NYC Commissioner of Consumer reported in Jerusalem by Anatol
Affairs Bess Meyerson, is expected Dakatov, a Jewish emigre from
to be responsible for more than the USSR and an engineer by pro-
$1,009,000 committed by the more fession, who conducted a Hebrew
than 900 women who attended.
class in Moscow before he left for
Israel earlier this year.
Dekatov addressed a meeting
Lima Notes Uprising Date
of the world executive of the
LIMA - (JTA) — The Jewish
Brit Ivrit Olamit (World Hebrew
2ommunity here marked the 28th
Union) on the status of Hebrew :
anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto
the Soviet Union. His report
iprising in' solemn ceremonies at in
was made available to the JTA
the monument for the victims of through a member of the execu-
the Nazi. Holocaust and at the tive in London.
synagogue. The main speakers
Dekatov said that while he ex-
"Jere Israel Ambassador Moshe perienced no difficulties and was
Avidan who several days ago pre- able to advertise his Hebrew
sented his credentials to Presi- course in Soviet newspapers, the
lent Juan Velasco Alvarado, and friend to whom he turned over
Jr. Luis] Bramont Arias,- dean of his class when he left Russia has
he Peruvian Lawyers Association: .been harassed, jailed and investi-
.
Brevities
gated by Soviet authorities. De-Soviet Government Protests
katov said he learned Hebrew in Attack on Soviet Offices;
Russia.
Bray, Bug]. Condemn Bombing
"When I opened my Hebrew
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The So-
classes, a kind of ulpan in the viet government lodged a strong
middle of Moscow, I committed no protest with the United States
crime under Soviet law," he said. against attacks on Soviet offices
"I started with four pupils. Peo- in New York. U.S. Ambassador
ple hesitated at the beginning, but Jacob Beam was summoned to the
after a time I began to supplement foreign ministry where he was
word-of-mouth promotion for my handed the protest note by Vasily
school with newspaper advertising V. Kuznetsov, first deputy foreign
and bill posting."
minister. The protest was occa-
Dekatov said when he went to sioned by a bomb explosion last
place his first advertisement in a Thursday in the Manhattan offices
Moscow newspaper "They asked of Amtorg, the Soviet trading com-
me, what is Hebrew. They said pany.
they never heard of it. When I
Rabbi Meir Kahane, Jewish De-
pointed out that I was fully entitled fense League's national chairman,
to teach an ancient language, they denied that his group was respon-
accepted the advertisement." De- sible for the Amtorg bombing but
katov said another paper flatly expressed sympathy for the per-
refused. It turned out that its edi- petrators.
tor was a Jew.
The State Department condemn-
ed the bombing "in the strongest
Eeeeek!
possible terms." Department
LIEGE, Belgium (JTA) — spokesman 'Charles Bray called it
Around 30 demonstrators broke "an action of misguided individ-
into the Congress Palace Sun- uals" which, he warned, "not only
day and let loose several white threatens to injure many innocent
mice during a Soviet fashion, people but hampers our own efforts
show within the framework of a to influence the Soviet government
"Soviet Decades" exhibit. The to permit freer emigration and end
action was similar to one staged both cultural and religious dis-
in New York several weeks ago crimination."
U.S. Ambassador to the United
by Jews protesting the treatment
Nations George Bush condemned
of their Soviet coreligionists.
One of the protesters here, the bombing as an "outrageous,
wearing a talith, mounted the barbaric and cowardly" incident.
rostrum and led the others in
The Soviet note made no accusa-
singing "Let My People Go." tions against any group.
The demonstrators were ar-
Two members of the Jewish
rested.
Defense League charged that two
They said they belonged to a
police officers beat them and
newly formed Antwerp-based
used anti-Semitic language while
movement in support of Soviet
transporting them to police
Jewry.
headquarters after a demonstra-
tion April 20 at the Iraqi mis-
sion to the United Nations.
The JDL members, Morris
Schwartz and Zev Fisher, said at
a press conference at JDL head-
quarters that the policemen beat
them with their fists, clubs and
helmets and that one of them
shouted: "Hitler didn't kill enough
of you."
Capt. Walter Richard of the po-
lice precinct, where those arrested
were taken, told the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency: "If Kahane didn't
show it would have been a very
peaceful thing. It was going beau-
tifully until Meir Kahane came.
The condition was so bad we had
to bring two more units in. Two
policemen were injured. Rabbi
Kahane's actions yesterday," Rich-
ard said, were "a disgrace."
Preparing for a conclave of
•atin-American investors in Au-
gust, in Israel, Dr. MARCOS
PERELMAN, a Peruvian banker
and leading Zionist, visited Israel
for talks with government author-
ities there.
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We ore now accepting enrollment applications
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Beginning September, 1971, we will have
a full day Kindergarten program, with
lunch and nap time ; as well as our regular
half day Kindergarten.
Our cafeteria will serve hot Kosher lunChes
two days a week, beginning in September,
1971.
We have an ungraded Hebrew class for
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Our school building includes: 18 large class-
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