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. 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