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a "brotherhood relationship" be-
tween their organizations. But this
week JDL's general counsel, Ber-
tram Zweibon, called Dr. Matthew
"stupid" and described him to the
JTA as a "an agent of Nixon."
Zweibon denied that there was ever
any "brotherhood" pact between
JDL and NEGRO, only a "dia-
logue" that he said would not be
affected by Dr. Matthew's Moscow
remarks because the JDL likes to
"enlighten ignorant people."
According to reports from Mos-
cow, Dr. Matthew said he did not
think the Russians had anything
to apologize for as far as their
acceptance of the Jewish people
was concerned. "I can go on
record as saying that the statistics
(given) us about the number of
Jewish people in professional and
technical positions—if they - are
correct, and I don't know of any-
body who challenges them—(indi-
cate) a high percentage of the
Jewish people are in such posi-
tions;" he said. "If that is correct,
I would • say that Soviet society is
offering Jewish people more than
American society is offering black
people."
Maass said Dr. Matthew's • re-
sponse was typical of "naive"
people unfamiliar with the facts
who hear "one side of the story."
He said Dr. Matthew had listen-
ed to Soviet officials but prob-
ably had met no Jews. He said
Dr. Matthew apparently does not
understand that the complaints
of Soviet Jews are not against
the system but against the ob-
stacles that prevent them from
living Jewish lives. He said Dr.
Matthew might alter his views
if he had statistics on the lack
of rabbis, Yiddish newspapers
and Jewish culture institutions in
Russia, if he- were aware of dis-
crimination against Jews in uni-
versities and employment in the
Soviet Union.
Members of the Student Struggle
for Soviet Jewry threatened July
28 to picket Monsieur Henri Ltd.,
a leading wine and liquor importer,
and certain "selected merchants,"
if the firm decided to market Rus-
sian vodka in the U. S. Members
of the SSSJ distributed leaflets out-
side the St. Moritz Hotel, where
Monsieur Henri officials were
meeting with Soviet trade repre-
sentatives to discuss an import
deal.
The leaflets claimed that Soviet
Jews wishing to go to Israel lost
their jobs and were the objects of
threats and harassment of their
children in schools.
"Vodka, as the Russian national
liquor, should be symbolic of good
cheer between peoples," the leaf-
let stated. "Unfortunately, observ-
ing the situation of Soviet Jews,
we as young Jews of the free
world cannot feel cheerful. We can-
not agree that 'business as usual'
takes precedence over human
rights. Regretfully, we reserve to
ourselves the option at a later
stage to engage in the legal picket-
ing of Monsieur Henri wines and
of selected merchants."
Raiza Palatnik, the 35-year-old
Jewish librarian from Odessa now
serving a two-year prison term for
alleged anti-Soviet activities, was
sentenced to five days' solitary
confinement for refusing to enter
a filthy cell, Jewish sources re-
ported. Miss Palatnik, who suf-
fers from paralysis of her left
arm, will appeal her sentence be-
fore a court in Kiev on Oct. 5, the
sources said.
A prominent Soviet Yiddish
poet has had his request for a
visa to Israel rejected by the
Soviet authorities, Jewish in-
formants said. He is Meir Kha-
ratz, 59, of Czernowitz, the
Ukraine, who was imprisoned
during the Stalin regime for what
, the sources called "loyalty to
Jewish values." His poems have
occasionally appeared in So-
vietish Heimland, the only Yid-
dish periodical in the USSR, but
he has been published mainly
in leftist journals outside the So-
viet Union, such as the Folk-
stimme of Warsaw, the Neie
Presse of Paris and the Yid-
disher Kultur of New York.
The sources also reported that
Benito Borokhovin, a Jewish engi-
neer from Moscow who was ar-
rested June 14 after two searches
of his apartment turned up Jew-
ish materials, suffered a heart at-
tack during his interrogation.
Two Soviet Jewry organiza-
tions have asked entertainer
Johnny Carson to refuse publicly
the invitation to him by Intourist-
Aeroflot to televise his "Tonight
Show" from Moscow for two
weeks. The California Students
for Soviet Jews, based in Los An-
geles, said the invitation should
be rejected "on the grounds that
anti-Semitism is still rampant in
the Soviet Union and the Jews
wishing to go to Israel are not
permitted to do so."
Carson should accept only if the
Soviet government "can promise
him that all those Jews now in-
carcerated in prison and other
Jews wanting to go to Israel would
be permitted to do so," said CSSJ
chairman Zev Yaroslaysky. Refer-
ring to Carson's questioning of
whether a Russian audience would
understand his jokes, Yaroslaysky
declared: "This is no joking mat-
ter. Soviet treatment of Jews is a
Israel Protests Opening
of Geneva El Fatah Office
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A formal
Israeli protest against the opening
of an El Fatah Information Bureau
in Geneva has been made to the
Swiss government. The envoy
citAd in his protest that announce-
ment by the Swiss government
after a murderous attack by Arab
guerrillas on an El Al plane at
Zurich's airport three years ago
that no political activity by Arab
terrorist groups would be per-
mitted nor would they be allowed
to organize cells in Switzerland.
The foreign ministry here said
it had not yet received a reply to
the protest but the Israel Radio
correspondent in Switzerland said
the Swiss government had declared
that the El Fatah office was an
agency connected with the United
Nations bodies which have head-
quarters in Geneva and that it
would not conduct any propaganda
outside the UN buildings and dele-
gations to sessions in the build-
ings.
deadly serious matter of the strug-
gle of a people to survive. If
Carson goes to Moscow to tell
jokes he will not be remembered
favorably among those who strug-
gled for freedom when Soviet
Jewry had their backs to the
wall."
Yaroslaysky r e c a l l e d that,
"knowing Carson's concern for
other people's rights," he wrote
the NBC-TV star a year ago ask-
ing that he study the situation of
Soviet Jews.
* * *
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Another
planeload of Jewish immigrants
from Russia landed here July 27,
the second to arrive in four days.
Most of the newcomers were from
the Riga area. One of them, Mrs.
Rose Shapsowitz, 60, a pharma-
cist, was met by her sister, whom
she had not seen in 33 years.
Markish, cameraman Semyo Mak Cinematographers Organization for
and others." Kalik, once praised requesting permission to go to Is-
for his ability, is now in official rael. On July 28, 10 Jewish women
disgrace. The 44-year-old director staged a silent 61/2 hour vigil out-
has been expelled from the Soviet side the entrance to the festival.
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LONDON (JTA) — About 40
adults and students occupied the
office of Tass, the Soviet news
agency, here July 26 to protest
the mistreatment and arrests of
Jews in the Soviet Union. The
group, which included businessmen
and housewives, remained on the
premises for about 15 minutes and
left peacefully when police arrived
on the scene.
• * *
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Industry
figures and movie buffs attending
the seventh annual Moscow Film
Festival had a reminder of the
plight of Jewish film artists and
technicians who have been harass-
ed by Soviet officialdom because
they applied for visas to emigrate
to Israel, it was reported here.
A letter signed by 67 Moscow
Jews addressed to to the Film
Festival was made available to
Western newsmen. It appealed for
support in defense of our in-
fringed right—the right to live
with our own people in Israel."
The letter noted that "Among
Jews who have been refused per-
mission to go to Israel are your
colleagues—movie director Mikhail
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