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participation in anti-Soviet orga-
nizations").
Five defendants were charged
undef Article 89, pertaining to
thievery. Conviction would call for
maximum penalties of seven years
under Article 70, 15 years under
Article 89 and death under Articles
64A and 72. Tass did not report
that the defendants are Jewish.
The courtroom was open Tuesday
only to 100 persons, all granted
special admission passes. They in-
cluded immediate relatives of the
defendants plus unidentified per-
sons said by Jewish sources to be
antagonistic toward the accused.
The judge was identified by the
sources as Nina Isakova, vice
chairman of the court, and the
prosecutor as I. Kutakova, a wom-
an who was the assistant prosecu-
tor at last December's Leningrad
trial.
(According to reports from Mos-
cow, two other defendants have
confesed — Viktor Shtilbans and
either Mikhail Korenblit or his
brother Lev.).
Hadassah resorted to a woman-
to-woman approach to try to se-
cure the release of Ruth Alexan-
drovich and other Jewish women
imprisoned in the Soviet Union
after applying foi emigration
visas. Mrs. Max Schenk, presi-
dent of the women's Zionist or-
ganization of America, the larg-
est Jewish women's organization
in the U.S., appealed to the top
woman official in the Soviet Un-
ion to intervene. Her cable was
addressed to Mrs. Yekaterina A.
Furtseva, minister of culture. '
The American Jewish Confer-
ence on Soviet Jewry resolved to
mobilize governmental and public
opinion against the proceedings as
it did last December. The rallying
cry, the conference decided, will
be: "Release the prisoners. No
more trials." It plans a telephone
and telegram campaign to spark
Jewish C OMM unity organizations
and individual Jews into action, as
well as to impress the urgency of
the cause upon President Nixon,
the State Department, United Na-
tions Ambassador George Bush,
district attorneys and the media.
Jewish sources reported that the
list of this week's Leningrad de-
fendants has been changed since
last Friday. David Iserovich Cher-
noglaz and Anatoly Moyseyevich
Goldfeld have reportedly been re-
turned to jail, with Koreblit and
Viktor Shtibans taking their places
in the dock.
Zand Expresses Thanks
to Hebrew Union College
.
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Prof.
Mikhail I. Zand of Moscow. has
acknowledged news that he has
been cited by the)Califonia school
of the Hebrew Union College for
his scholarly achievements in Jew-
ish studies and for upholding the
rights of fellow Jews in the Soviet
Union. A cable from Moscow ex-
pressing "my most cordial thanks
for the great honor done to me"
was received from him by Dr. Al-
fred Gottschalk, acting president
of the college. Zand, 44, has been
in trouble with the Soviet authori-
ties because of his stand on the
rights of Jews in Russia, and he
was recently ousted from his post
as a staff member of the Institute
for Eastern Studies.
His removal followed denuncia-
tion by fellow Russian educators
as a "traitor" and 15 days in pris-
on on a charge of hooliganism for
leading a peaceful demonstration
of 40 people in the office of the
state prosecutor in Moscow. The
Jewish scholar recently requested
permission for his family to mi-
grate to Israel, and Dr. Gottschalk
said he hoped that the request
would soon be granted. If so, the
citation, the first of its kind ever
issued by the college, would be
presented to Zand at the college's
Biblical and Archaeological School
in Jerusalem.
More than 1,000 students at the
University of California at Los
Angeles demonstrated Tuesday
as part of a nationwide one-day
"fast for freedom" on 27 Ameri-
can and Canadian campuses,
sponsored by Bnai Brith Hillel
Foundations in support of Soviet
Jewry. Thomas Bradley, a black
city councilman, declared: "There
are no boundaries to oppression.
Therefore, every concerned hu-
man being must express indigna- '
tion against Soviet oppression of
Jews."
Also rallying the demonstrators
were Rep. Alphonzo Bell, Republi-
can of this city, and County Super-
visor Kenneth Hahn. The coordi-
nators of the nationwide student
protest have vowed to continue
their pressure on the Soviet Union
until trials of Jews are ended and
freedom of emigration is granted.
(In Washington, Tuesday, 75
members of the Jewish Commu-
nity Council of Greater Washing-
ton distributed leaflets on a busy
downtown corner near the Soviet
Embassy to open an 11-day pro-
gram of protests against the Len-
ingrad trial of nine Jews. The
leaflets said: "The sole crime of
those being tried is their desire to
maintain their Jewish identities,
their religious and cultural herit-
age, and their desire to emigrate
to Israel." The council will spon-
sor a public meeting May 19 at
Ohr Kodesh congregation, Chevy
Chase, Md., at which Mrs. Rivka
Aleksandrovich, mother of Riga
prisoner Ruth Aleksandrovich, will
speak. Also planned are visits to
the Soviet Embassy by Jewish and
Christian delegations, war veter-
ans and senior citizens. The Uni-
versity of Maryland Committee on
Soviet Jewry staged a demonstra-
tion Tuesday night at the embassy.
(Genesee County. Prosecuting At-
torney Robert Leonard, who will
report on his fact-finding Russian
tour at a Jewish, Community Coun-
cil-sponsored press conference here
Monday reports that his contacts
in Moscow with whom he had
spoken Wednesday denied that a
trial involving Soviet Jews, was
now in progress.)
Mass Immigration of Jews From
USSR No Problem—Rogers
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Secre-
tary of State William P. Rogers
does not see that the release of
Jews in large numbers from the
Soviet Union or settlement in Is-
rael constitutes "a problem for the
immediate future." In a television
interview in London last Thursday,
the transcript of which was dis-
tributed by the State Department,
Rogers was asked whether the
"United States accepts the full
implications of the Zionist doctrine
that all Jews in the world have
the right to settle in that part of
the Middle East." Rogers re-
sponded that "we don't ask our-
selves that question." But his
interviewer, Robert Kee of Thames
TV, interrupted the secretary at
that point and remarked that that
was "of course" the question
that the Arabs are always asking
themselves and "that is why they
are so worried at what they call
Israeli expansion."
Sen. Vance Hartke of Indiana
sent Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F.
Dobrynin copies of a petition with
more than 1,500 signatures calling
on Premier Aleksei Kosygin to
permit Soviet Jews to emigrate.
The petition, sent to the Soviet
Embassy by special messenger,
had been gathered by the Purdue
University Committee on Soviet
Jewry, an ad hoc group formed
through the Bnai Brith Hillel Foun-
dation on the Indiana campus.
It had been presented to Sen.
Hartke by Dr. Gary Moroff, a for-
mer Purdue graduate student who
is the committee's chairman, and
Dr. Alfred Jospe, Hillel Founda-
tion's national director of program
and resources and former Hillel
director at Indiana University.
22 Friday, May 14, 1971
—
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Protests Held in Israel
Against New Trials
his arrest. Neither members Of his
family nor his attorney, Luria,
have been permitted to see him,
the sources said.
Twenty-three Soviet Jews en-
tered the reception room of the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
in Moscow on April 28, remaining
almost until closing time (7 p.m.)
and demanding action on their
emigration applications, reliable
Jewish sources -reported. A dele-
gation of four Jews was received
by a Soviet official who assured
them that their applications would
be processed within the provisions
of Soviet law. The demonstrators
were from Moscow, Vilna and
Kovno. The sources also reported
that Lazar Lubarsky, a Jewish
engineer of Rostov, in southeast
Russia, was arrested last month
and charged with anti-Soviet ac-
tivities after a search of his home
turned up letters to Soviet institu-
tions, letters from Israel and He-
brew books. Lubarsky, of the
Odessa Institute of Communica-
tions, had been applying for emi-
gration to Israel since last Sep-
tember.
Meanwhile, one of the signers
of the first Soviet Jewish petition
for emigrations, in 1969, has been
arrested for alleged economic
crimes, the sources said. He is
Mikhail Tataroashvili, whose
daughter and five grandchildren
are already in Israel. Most of the
18 signers of the first petition also
are in Israel.
Dov Sperling, a Soviet Jewish
militant who immigrated to Israel
in 1969; claimed in Buenos Aires
that there is no future for Jewry in
Russia and emigration is the only
solution. He claimed that masses
of Soviet Jews faced exile to Si-
beria because of an alleged trend
toward re-Stalinization in the USSR.
He said it was useless to press for
Jewish cultural rights in the Soviet
Union because the Moscow authori-
ties would never grant them.
Sperling, 33, is visiting Argentina
as a guest of local followers of
Israel's nationalist Herut faction.
He said the only way to secure
Jewish emigration from the Soviet
Union was continuing international
pressure on the Soviets.
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Thirty So-
viet emigres from Beersheba be-
gan a march to the Western Wall
in Jerusalem Monday night to pro-
test the new trials of Jews in the
Soviet Union.
The marchers were reinforced
by large numbers of immigrants
of different national origins as
they passed through Kiryat Gat
and other settlements along their
route. Beersheba police requested
police depots along the way to
assist the marchers.
Jewish circles in North and
South America, Europe and Aus-
tralia are planning a series of
"counter trials" to parallel the
trial in the Soviet Union. The dem-
onstration trials will be a platform
for charging the Soviet regime with
Students Demand Freedom
persecution a n d discrimination
for Ruth Aleksandrovich
against its Jewish citizens. Evi- CJF Sets Up Federation
LONDON (JTA) — The Univer- dence will be heard on the treat- Recruitment Program
sities Committee for Soviet Jewry ment of Jews in the USSR.
The establishment of a Federa-
is linking the impending trial of Other Arrests, Harassments
tion Executive Recruitment and
Ruth Aleksandrovich in Riga with of Soviet Jews Reported
Education Program by the Council
that of Angela Davis, a former pro-
NEW YORK (JTA)—Hillel Schur, of Jewish Federations and Welfare
fessor of psychology at the Univer- one of a group of Jews arrested Funds, was announced by Samnel -
sity of California. The group has last August and still awaiting trial J. Silberman of New York, CJF
distributed posters demanding in Leningrad, has been transferred vice president and chairman of the
"USA Free Angela Davis—USSR to Kishinev prison, the JTA learned Council's personnel services com-
Free Ruth Aleksandrovich."
from informed sources here. Schur mittee. The program has been -de-
Seventy Jewish women assem- and his fellow prisoners are be- signed to meet the mounting need
bled outside the Soviet Embassy lieved to have been accused of for qualified personnel and profes-
Tuesday for the third consecutive anti-Soviet propaganda. He has sional leadership in local Jewish
day to protest the arrests of Miss been held incommunicado since Federations.
Day School Role of Making Leaders Praised at Parley
MONSEY PARK, N.Y. (JTA)— he endorses the so-called dual en-
Declaring that American education rollment, or shared - time plan,
has failed to bring about "any sig- under which a child takes his reli-
nificant changes" in the social gious classes in a religious school
order, Dr. Seymour P. Lachman, and his secular subjects in a public
chairman of the Jewish studies school. Dr. Lachman stated: "We,
committee for secondary schools as Jews who value the tradition of
of the American Association of education in all its aspects, must
Jewish Education, called for a demand the support of education
"basic reinterpretation of the value by all levels of government, espe-
and importance of public education cially the federal government."
in enhancing rather than extin- But, he cautioned his audience,
guishing a multi-cultural demo- "the expenditure of increased sums
cratic experience."
does not guarantee the delivery
Dr. Lachman, whd- is also a mem- of more and better service."
ber of the New York City Board
Meanwhile, in Greenfield Park,
of Education, praised the Hebrew N.Y., the Hebrew day schools
day schools as "the best available joined the ranks of the conserva-
means by which to develop a
tion minded by deciding to ini-
permanent leadership cadre that tiate instruction in ecology.
is steeped in Jewish learning and The move was approved
knowledge."
by 300 day school principals at
He told the 100 delegates to a the end of a four-day convention
study conference sponsored by the of the National Conference of
Synagogue Council of America that Yeshiva Principals and the Na-
Aleksandrovich and two other So-
viet Jewish women held in prison:
Silva Zalmanson, who was con-
vited in last December's Lenin-
grad hijack trial, and Roiza Palat-
nik, jailed in Odessa on Dec. 1
after she applied for an exit visa.
The JTA was informed that Mrs.
Rivka Aleksandrovich, mother of
Ruth, was not received at the So-
viet Embassy here Monday, as
reported earlier. Mrs Aleksandro-
vich was on her way to the U.S. to
campaign for the release of her
daughter.
Three young Jews entered the
Tass offices on Fleet Street Mon-
day night and chained themselves
to office machinery in protest
against the new trial in Leningrad.
They left peacefully after police
cut the chains and told them to
"go home." The demonstrators
were identified as David Evnine,
Lawrence Simon and Esther En-
gelman.
In Liege, Belgium, authorities
permitted large numbers of Jews
to hold a silent demonstration near
the Congress Palace where a Soviet
exhibition, billed as "The Soviet
Decade," was drawing to a close.
Throughout the day, Jews marched
slowly past the palace gates guard-
ed by about 15 policemen. They
carried banners urging freedom
for Soviet Jews and their right to
emigrate.
tional Association of Hebrew
Day School Administrators, af-
filiates of Torah Umesorah, the
National Society for Hebrew Day
Schools.
.
The ecological curriculum will
be part of the schools' over-all
program of religious instruction,
explained Rabbi Bernard Golden-
berg of New York, spokesman for
Torah Umesorah. "Ecology is a
religious imperative," he told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency. "We
are saying it's a sin to pollute the
air and water."
The convention also resolved to
seek greater welfare fund support
for needy-student scholarships while
protecting the "ideological essence"
of existing Hebrew day schools; to
"upgrade the professionalism of
day school instructors," and to in-
crease individual instruction. Rabbi
Sholom Rephun, principal of the
Manhattan (N.Y.) Day School, was
elected president of the National
Conference of Yeshiva Principals.:
L.I. Rabbi Raps U.S. Synagogues
as Being Too Big, Rich and Social
NEW YORK (JTA)—A prominent
Long Island rabbi who has served
the pulpit for 40 years, delivered a
devastating attack on the institu-
tion of the synagogue as it is pres-
ently constituted.
Rabbi Max J. Routtenberg, of
Temple Bnai Shalom, Rockville
Center, charged the American
synagogue with "spiritual insolv-
ency." He called for the elimina-
tion of the "giant synagogue," of
the synagogue that "combines the
shul and the pool" and "the syna-
gogue which functions almost ex-
clusively as a business enterprise."
Rabbi Routtenberg addressed a
symposium on the topic of "The
American Synagogue — Has It a
Future?" sponsored by Judaism,
the quarterly magazine of religious
scholarship published by the Amer-
ican Jewish Congress. The sym-
posium was attended by 200 rabbis
and scholars.
Rabbi Routtenberg called on
the American Jewish community
to "emancipate itself" from the
synagogue "as it is presently
constituted.'!
He proposed the development of
small synagogues with member-
ships of 150-200 families able to
"concentrate on genuine functions
of a synagogue—prayer, study, re-
ligious experience, youth and adult
education, the family and its spir-
itual concerns and the celebration
of events on the' yearly Jewish
calendar." -
He said he saw "vitality and
hope" in the small Orthodox syna-
gogues in the inner cities, mention-
ing the Williamsburg section of
Brooklyn, and in the new religious
communes and "havurot."
He declared, "The synagogue as
a business enterprise must go for
it is corrupting and paralyzing the
functions of a 'synagogue."