Eve of Tisha
Brings
Acclaim for Soviet .Jewry
Wall St. Journal
Discriminatory Ad
Protested by AJC
By ESTHER ALLWEISS
in the treatment of Jews. The
Tisha b'Av took on the aspect cause needs the aid of all reli-
NEW YORK — Two executives
of unified communal expression in gions, he said.
Southfield Mayor Norman Fed- of the Wall Street Journal have
defense of Soviet Jewry at the
Shaarey Zedek meeting convened er joined in signing his name as offered contradictory explanations
the 4,000th to ascribe to 15-year- of a discriminatory real estate ad-
by the Detroit Action Committee
old Joanie Michlin's petition to vertisement the newspaper carried,
on Soviet Jewry, Saturday night.
Senator
Edward Kennedy in de- the American Jewish Congress dis-
The occasion was viewed by
closed.
Rabbi Irwin Groner as appropriate fense of Soviet Jewry.
The Congress spotted the ad—
for an expression of concern for
Paper spoke of his efforts to offering a $37,500 home for sale
the oppressed in the USSR, as "a secure Mikhail Zand's release in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard,
day of sadness, yet hope, for it from jail and emigration with his but rejecting either solicitation or
is said that on the day the Temple family to Israel.
sale to "a resident of New York
is destroyed the Redeemer will be
Paper cited the help he received state" — and alerted Governor
born."
from many persons—notably Al- Rockefeller, Mayor Lindsay and
Speakers Robert Leonard, pros- fred Gottschalk of Hebrew Union the Journal itself to possible dis-
ecuting attorney of Genesee College—when he attempted to get crimination on religious or racial
County, and Dr. Herbert Paper, an honorary degree or citation for grounds.
professor of linguistics at the Uni- his imprisoned friend, Zand.
I "We cannot help but suspect
versity of Michigan, shared his
Within 40 minutes of the request. I that it is in fact an attempt to
optimism.
Paper had gathered three honor- I evade the fair housing laws of
They inspired the audience with ary degrees for Zand, which the New York state and Massachu-
examples of how today's Soviet latter felt would put pressure on setts," Theodore J. Kolish, chair-
Jew demands religious freedom or the Soviet officials to let him go man of the Congress' Metropolitan
the right to emigrate. to Israel. Council, wrote to Governor Rocke-
"The real question," Paper "Zand was lucky in having feller, adding:
contacts outside the Soviet
"We have had long experience
told the audience of several hun-
Union," Paper concluded, "but with the use of seemingly innocent
dred, "is not what can we do to
what about the plight of a com- formulas as a disguise for dis-
help them (Soviet Jews) . . .
mon shoemaker?"
crimination based on race, reli-
The question is: are we here
With his mission successfully gion or national origin."
WORTHY of their courage and
completed, Paper is still uncertain
The governor did not answer,
sacrifice?"
An unidentified woman in the whether his efforts really made a but in response to the protest
eventual
1
d
i
ease lodged
with
the
Journal itself,
audience apparently thought most difference in th ere
of
Zand.
Joseph J. Perrone, national classi-
American Jews are not. During
And from Israel, Zand himself tied advertising manager, wrote to
the scheduled question-and-answer
period following Paper's talk, she has expressed his own bewilder- Kolish:
"The disclaimer clause printed
challenged the sincerity of the ef- ment to Piper: "I don't know why
forts of the American Jewish com- my exit visa was successful when in the real estate ad in question,
of mine are on trial. If i excluding residents of New York
munity thus far. Saying that she friends
you're looking for logic in Soviet State from their offering, repre-
and her two teen-age children had officials, there isn't any." sents an attempt on the part of
been arrested in Washington, dur-
thadvers
ti er o t comp 1 y w ith N ew
e
ing the recent JDL demonstration
York state's rather stringent reg-
•
for Soviet Jewry, she demanded
istration laws, rather than a dis-
to know why only Rabbi Meir Ka-
criminatory practice."
hane and his followers get active.
A different story was told, how-
ly involved—through marches and
ever, by Warren H. Phillips, vice
protests—while other groups mere-
president and general manager of
ly advocate letter-writing pressure.
the Journal. Responding to an in-
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen. quiry, prompted by the American
An argument of sorts ensued be-
tween the woman and Paper as he Edmund S. Muskie charged that Jewish Congress, from Marvin
called the actions of the JDL the Nixon administration was de- Schick, assistant to Mayor Lind-
"counterproductive" and she tried laying "needed military assist- say for intergroup relations, Phil-
to interrupt his reply. The woman ance . ' to Israel in a "zig-zag" Mid- lips wrote: -
"Our investigation indicated this
left the meeting and is said to dle East diplomacy of seeking
have tried to explain her view- "political leverage over Israel" and indeed was an ad we should not
said it was "imperative" that the have accepted. Our practice is to
point in the foyer later.
administration "delay no longer" screen all ads to guard against
Aside from this incident, the
in selling Israel the additional
evening went smoothly. The pro- Phantom jets which Israel has long discrimination, possible fraud, bad
taste and other abuses, but obvi-
gram started with a. candlelight requseted.
ously there was an inadvertent slip
march down the center of the au-
The Maine Democrat said that in our defenses in this case."
ditorium by members of the De-
the administration had withheld
Kolish said the Congress would
troit Action Committee. Dr.
action on Israel's request "ap- accept the latter explanation and
George Barahal read excerpts
parently on the assumption that that he trusted "there will be no
from Lamentations as accom-
such actions might render a polit- more 'slips' in the Wall Street
paniment, followed by a "mo- ical settlement more difficult." Journal's policy of rejecting dis-
ment of silence" in the candle-
Muskie said the United States was criminatory advertising."
lit darkness.
"committed to Israel's survival
Leonard, introduced by mistress and we are pledged to maintain
of ceremonies Helen Opatowski, a balance of military power in the Moscow Chief Rabbi
told the gathering of his May visit Middle East. By either measure Recovers from Illness
to Moscow, where he was sent to it is imperative that we delay no
NEW YORK (JTA)—Chief Rabbi
investigate the trials of Jews in longer in shipping the additional
Yehuda
Leib Levin of Moscow
Russia by. the National District air c r a f t." , He contended that was released
from Hospital Six
Attornies Association and the prospects for a political settlement there last Thursday after five
American Conference on Soviet are * surely not advanced by a weeks' recovery from a serious
Jewry.
military balance that shifts dan- operation, it was reported by Rabbi
He said the 3,600-member as- gerously in favor of the Arabs."
Arthur Schneier of Park East Syn-
sociation had recently passed a
Muskie said the current admin- agogue.
resolution "condemning the So-
istration policy "serves only to
Rabbi Schneier, after speaking
viet Union for religious prosecu-
raise doubts among all parties in with Rabbi Levin by telephone,
tion and inhumane treatment of
the conflict that the United States said the 77-year-old rabbi quoted
Jews." He noted that the Soviet is truly committed to preserving the doctors as saying there was
government had not replied to Israel's security. Such doubts will "no point in maintaining me in
the group's request to send ob-
encourage the Arabs not to nego- the hospital any longer" and that
servers to the Leningrad, Riga tiate seriously with Israel and he was "in need of an extended
and Kishinev trials-
reluctant to negotiate territorial period of enforced rest and con-
Despite such discouragement, questions bearing on her secu- valescence and total abstinence
Leonard urged continued pressure rity." Muskie cited the current from all work and involvements."
on Soviet officials. He said Ameri- visit of Assistant Secretary of
The elderly Russian spiritual
cans should go to Russia to con- State Joseph Sisco to Israel and leader is the only rabbi for Mos-
front officials and especially the declared that the "political stale- cow's estimated 500,000 Jews.
non-Jewish citizens, whom, he mate" in the Middle East "has Speculating on a successor, espe-
said, are often unaware of the now reached a critical stage," cially if Rabbi Levin should not
treatment of Jews.
and that "frustrations are grow- live much longer, Rabbi Schneier
As a non-Jew, Leonard said he ing on both sides. In a situation told the JTA: "This is the greatest
spoke for his religious group in of such great tension there is al- tragedy—that there is no one to
expressing its concern for Soviet ways the possibility of another take his place."
Jews. In speaking of the issue tragic conflict," he declared. Cit-
In Kiev, he added, no replace-
before many non-Jewish gather- ing reports of increased arms ship- ment has been found in four years.
ings, Leonard said he is often ments by the Soviets, particularly
Rabbi Schneier recently visited
asked what they can do to help.
fighter aircraft to Egypt and Russia again as president of the
During his Moscow visit, Leon- Syria, he said he rejected "the Appeal of Conscience Foundation
ard said the Soviet government Administration's apparent position here, and on June 28 recorded a
was impressed that he, as a Roman that delivery of Phantom jets to "first" when he substituted for
Catholic, would also 'be interested Israel must still be delayed."
the hospitalized Rabbi Levin.
18 — Friday, August 6, 1971
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Amir Becomes Envoy to Thailand
NEW YORK (JTA) — The out-
going Israeli Consul General, Re-
haveam Amir, said "no other city
(in the diaspora) can gratify a Jew
or an Israeli as much as New
York." The 55-year-old Amir leaves
the post he has held during the
past three years to assume the
Israeli ambassadorship in Thaild-
and. He commented in an inter-
view with a JTA reporter that the
inspiration which Israel provides
for American Jewry, particularly
New York Jewry, has become ap-
parent during his service here,
noting that American Jews are
Israel's greatest source of support,
friendship and solidarity. But even
more important, he said, is the
factor of mutual "identification"
between Israeli and American Jew,
especially since the 1967 Six-Day
War.
Amir, who will be taking his
wife and two daughters with him
to Thailand, described Israeli-Thai
relations as "friendly." With Is-
rael seeking to profit economically
from an East Asian ally as well
as share its echnical and scientific
acumen with the Thai people, the
Israeli embassy was established
there in the late 1950s. In addition
to is diplomatic dealings, the em-
bassy also has contact with that
country's 80 Jewish families and
Amir hopes to establih a relation-
ship with the 300 or so Jewish
American servicemen stationed
there.
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