Worldwide Protests Against Soviet Trials
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (JTA) — An
appeal for massive moral support
of the human rights of Russian
Jewry and others who are being
denied cultural and religious self-
determination in the Soviet Union
was issued here by Rabbi Marc H.
Tanenbaum, national interreli-
gious affairs director of the
American Jewish Committee.
Speaking at the general assembly
of the United Presbyterian Church,
Rabbi Tanenbaum told the almost
800 delegates that in appealing for
this support "the Jewish commu-
nity is not interested in heating up
the cold war. The Jewish people
committed to peace."
Rabbi Tanenbaum appeared be-
fore the assembly to introduce Mrs.
Rivka Aleksandrovich, mother of
Ruth Aleksandrovich. Mrs. Alek-
sandrovich, the first Jew to address
a United Presbyterian Church as-
sembly, received a standing ovation
from the delegates. Speaking in
English, the 47-year-old instructor
in English at the university level
in the Soviet Union before she was
allowed to leave for Israel, said
her daughter's only "fault" was
a desire to emigrate to Israel. "It
is abominable that in the 20th Cen-
tury, persons are punished not for
a crime, but for a belief," she
said.
1,000 at Film Festival Sign
Petition Calling for Right
of USSR Jews to Emigrate
PARIS (JTA)•Several hundred
film producers, directors, actors
and critics attending the Cannes
film festival, were present at a
meeting Monday in defense of
Soviet Jewry. They were addressed
by the Soviet Jewish film director
and writer Afim Sevela who
claimed that more than a million
Russian Jews wanted to emigrate
to Israel.
Sevela left Moscow two weeks
ago on his way to Israel. Ten thou-
sand leaflets calling for an end to
the trials of Jews in the Soviet
Union were distributed near the
Congress Palace where the film
festival is being held. About 1,000
persons signed a petition to Soviet
Communist Party chit,. Leonid
Brezhnev to let Jews emigrate.
SSSJ Members Attacked
in Communist Party Office
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) —Seven
members of the Student Struggle
for Soviet Jewry and the Student
Activists for Soviet Jewry were at-
tacked by two men wielding ham-
-- mers in the new local offices of the
Communist Party U.S.A., they re-
, ported to the JTA.
The leader of the delegation, Jay
Blum, a medical student at the
University of Pennsylvania who
has visited the Soviet Union, was
hospitalized with a minor concus-
sion. Blum said that when the stu-
dents arrived at the offices to pro-
test the Leningrad trial, the only
employee there, a woman, asked
them to wait and left the room,
returning shortly with the two men.
No charges were filed against any
of the participants in the incident.
In Washington, Superior Court
Judge George D. Neilson Tuesday
sentenced seven Jewish students
to fines of $25 each or 10 days in
jail on disorderly conduct charges
stemming from their takeover of
the Tass office there on Nov. 20.
The seven pleaded guilty and paid
their fines. An eighth defendant
charged with disorderly conduct
in the same case did not appear
in court. The charge against her
was dropped because she was a
juvenile.
District Attorney Luke Moore
asked the court, prior to the. sen-
tencing, to lessen the charge from
unlawful entry to disorderly con-
duct.
Sheldon Zeller, • a pre-law stu-
dent, complained after the sen-
tencing that none of the Jewish
organizations in Washington whom
the students approached to ask for
help to defray court and legal
expenses responded. The eight
students entered the Tass office
in the National Press Building and
sent a message in Russian on the
Tass teletype to Moscow stating,
"Let My People Go."
Soviet Jewry Undergoing
Revival of Religious
Faith, Says Jakobovits
LONDON (JTA )—" The miracu-
lous revival of religious faith with-
in Soviet Jewry is matched only by
the wondrous rise of the state of
Israel out of the ashes of the Holo-
caust," British Chief Rabbi Dr.
Immanuel Jakobovits declared at
a celebration of the 25th anniver-
sary of the London Board of Jewish
Religious Education.
"After half a century of spiritual
desolation," he continued, "reli-
gious weddings are again taking
place in Russian synagogues. Teen-
agers are undergoing the rite of
circumcision to affirm their Jewish
identity. Underground study of the
language of the Bible has made
large numbers of young Russian
Jews amazingly fluent in Hebrew."
Leningrad Sentences
Received in Israel as
`Miscarriage of Justice'
JERUSALEM (JTA)The Lenin-
grad sentences were received in
Israel with undisguised fury. For-
eign Minister Abba Eban in a
speech called the sentences "a
shocking miscarriage of justice and
distortion of the truth." Immigrant
Absorption Minister Natan Peled
told an assembly of Soviet immi-
grants at the Wailing Wall: "These
sentences were obviously dictated.
It was a cowardly trial. But this
will not deceive anyone. The
strength of the Jewish people in
the Soviet Union will endure. This
Soviet Union will not succeed in
verdict was criminal. Bu _ t the
its designs."
The chairman of the Conference
of Presidents of Major American
Jewish Organizations, Dr. William
Wexler, told an Israeli radio inter-
viewer that American Jewry would
redouble it _ s energy to help Soviet
Jews.
Police Rip Placards
Carried by Rabbis
Protesting Soviet Trials
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Officers
of the Executive Protective Serv-
ice, the special White douse unit
assigned to shield foreign diplomats
from illegal demonstrations and
physical harm, tore up - placards
carried by a group of rabbis Mon-
day outside the Soviet Embassy.
The 35 rabbis were making -their
second circling of the block, pro-
testing the trials of Soviet Jews,
when an EPS sergeant read a
mimeographed statement warning
them to cease demonstrating within
500 feet of the embassy. The rabbis
nevertheless raised their signs and
continued their march, and "the
EPS police literally ran after them
and grabbed the placards from
their hands and tore them up," it
was reported to the JTA by Samuel
H. Sislen, assistant community re-
lations director of the Jewish Com-
munity Council of Greater Wash-
ington. Sislen said the officers out-
numbered the rabbis. There wa3
no arrests.
The demonstration was sponsoilf
by the Washington Board of Rab-
bis, the Rabbinical Assembly of
Washington, the Rabbinical Coun-
cil and the JCC. The rabbis—rep-
resenting all three branches of
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Judaism—proceeded to a nearby
rally by more than 400 students of
the Hebrew Academy. Three high
school students were charged with
delinquency today after parading
in front of the Soviet Embassy
bearing an Israeli flag.' They were
Reed Shneider, Martin Kramer and
Andre Weitzman. In Superior Court
charges were dropped against Da-
vid J. Fitzmaurice, secretary gen-
eral of the International Union of
Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers, who had flown an Israeli
flag atop the union building, within
500 fept of the Soviet Embassy, last
Dec. 30.
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