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Yiddish Must Get State Dept. Approval
Before Broadcasting to USSR Possible
WASHINGTON ( JTA) — The
Voice of America has turned back
a congressman's request that it
act promptly to include a Yiddish-
language segment in its eight-hour-
a-day broadcasts into the Soviet
Union.
Charles D. Ablard, general coun-
sel of the U.S. Information Agency,
which operates the VOA, advised
Rep. John G. Dow, Republican of
New York, in a letter received
Tuesday that "a decision to add
any amount of time on a regular
basis in a new language would be
one policy requiring approval at
higher levels"—meaning the USIA
and the State Department.
Ablard explained that "a Yiddish-
language program could not be
accommodated on our existing fa-
cilities simultaneously with other
existing programs so it would be
necessary to add new transmitting
facilities, not just one transmitter,
to carry the language as a separate
programing thread."
The cost of such a restructuring,
he said, would be $2,000,000 to
$2,500,000. Ablard stressed that "we
believe we are reaching the Jewish
audience in the USSR with our
present programing, which is con-
tinually under review."
Dow wrote Ablard last week to
recommend the inclusion of a
Synagogue Council View
Not Reflected in Criticism
of ADL, VP Declares
Yiddish-programing segment, as
it would be "a tremendous lift
to them (Soviet Jews) to have
word that they could understand
coming from the Free World."
A neighboring New York Repub-
lican, Peter A. Payser, told the
House Monday that the programing
change "would fill a need which
exists and . . . provide psycho-
logical support of enormous im-
portance to the 3,000,000 Jews of
the Soviet Union."
Payser noted that in the most
recent Soviet census, 300,000 Jews
said they spoke Yiddish, and added
that there were probably thousands
more who feared to admit it.
Yet, he said, while VOA does not
broadcast to them in Yiddish, it
transmits programs in languages
understandable to them in varying
degrees.
Dow and Payser have written
to USIA Director Frank Shake-
speare and to President Nixon to
press their case. In addition, Dow
submitted a "sense of Congress"
resolution favoring Yiddish pro-
graming.
Last week Dow advised his
congressional colleagues of "the
intolerable situation facing the
Soviet Jews." Speaking Tuesday of
the new trials of Soviet Jews, the
Episcopalian legislator urged Sec-
retary of State William P. Rogers
to use his good offices to obtain
clemency for the prisoners, whom
he called "pawns" of the cold war.
nerugewa
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Make Adjustments in U.S.
NEW YORK (JTA)—A study of
100 Jewish refugee families from
Czechoslovakia and Poland who
settled in New York City from July
1, 1968 through December 1969,
reveals a remarkable beginning
adjustment to their new homeland,
it was reported by the New York
Association for New Americans, a
beneficiary of the United Jewish
Appeal.
The 100 refugee families, sur-
veyed after less than two years in
this country, picked at random
from the agency's files, were com-
posed of 292 individuals: 29 per
cent of the 350 families, composed
of 988 individuals, resettled by
NYANA from Poland and Czecho-
slovakia during the same period.
The 78 families from Poland,
particularly, had felt the weight of
anti-Semitism increase following
the Arab-Israeli war of June 1967.
More than 26 per cent of the
families surveyed were self-sup-
porting in less than two months in
the city and 45 per cent, in less
than four months. Only two per
cent required any financial assist-
ance from NYANA for more than
six months.
Not one member of the 100 fami-
lies interviewed expressed a de-
sire to return to his countries of
origin.
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Rabbi
Henry Sieana, executive vice pres-
ident of the Synagogue Council of
America, said that the statement
issued by Henry Schwarzschild, a
member of the Council's commis-
sion on social justice, criticizing
the Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith for giving the names
of Jewish Defense League mem-
bers to the FBI did not reflect the
view of the SCA or its commis-
sion.
In a statement to the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, Rabbi Sieg-
man said: "Henry Schwarzschild
acted in his personal capacity.
The action he took and the posi-
tion he expressed have not been
discussed by the commission of
social justice of the Synagogue
Council of America and, there-
fore, does not reflect the position
of the Synagogue Council. In fact,
as far as the Synagogue Council
is concerned, this is the first we
have heard of the (Schwarz-
schild's) statement."
In Washington 150 students peti-
tioned for and were granted an
appointment with members of the
ADL board.
The students met with Jay Sil-
verman, regional director of the
ADL, to urge an immediate halt to
the ADL's policy of cooperating
with "responsible" agencies when
asked for public information about
Jews and Jewish groups; an imme-
diate halt to ADL "survelliance"
of such individuals and groups;
and the creation of a Bnai Brith
committee to investigate the ADL.
The students said the ADL
policy was "abhorrent to us."
Silverman said the protest was a
legitimate one and that the stu-
dents were courteous.
At the next meeting, late next
month, of the District of Columbia-
Maryland Regional Advisory Board
of the ADL, board members will
hear the students' complaints
voiced by a delegation-.
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