Campaign Announced for U.S. Jewry to Adopt 80,000 Families From the Soviet Union NEW YORK (JTA) — The Re- written to Soviet Communist search Institute on Soviet Jewry Party Secretary Leonid I. Brezh- announced it will launch a nation- nev, Soviet President Nikolai V. wide campaign to have the Ameri- Podgorny and Russian Prosecutor can Jewish community adopt General Roman A. Rudenko, de- 80,000 Soviet Jewish families who manding an end to what they have applied for permission to called judicial persecution of Jews leave Russia and to raise the "who are trying to achieve the necessary funds to provide these realization of their right to emi- families with complete housing grate to the state of Israel." units when they arrive in Israel. Sources said 10 Georgian Jews Morris Brafman, chairman of have protested in writing to the the institute and a delegate to the Russian minister of communica- World Conference of Jewish Com- tion that the Russian postal munities on Soviet Jewry held in authorities have been holding up Brussels last February, said his hundreds of emigration affidavits group will present the family sent to Georgian Jews from Israel. adoption and housing plan among several other proposals to a Na- The writers charged the authori- tional Conference on Soviet Jewry ties with "an attempt to isolate scheduled for Oct. 22-25 at the us from our relatives and from our people in Israel." New York Hilton Hotel. Russian Jewish sources also re- The institute chairman said the conference was called after ported that Vladimir Markman, consultation with Jewish action the Sverdlovsk Jew who had com- groups in 11 cities around the plained about the behavior of the country "who have decided that judge in tile trial of Valery Kukui, the time is long past due for is continuing to make his charges the creation of a national grass in the face of evasive reactions roots movement totally com- from the authorities. Markman had complained that mitted to the repatriation of 3,590,000 Russian Jews and their the judge had wilfully flouted justice in order to sentence Kukui, successful resettlement in Is- who received a three-year term rael." "This conference," Brafman for alleged anti-Soviet. activities. The Supreme Court of the added, "will be the first attempt Russian Soviet Republic opened to break the deadly five-month period of silence and inaction on hearings Tuesday on Kukui's ap- the Soviet Jewish question that peal, but then postponed them has ensued since Brussels. We will until Thursday because of illness attempt to put into effect the reso- of the chief prosecutor, Jewish lutions of five special study com- sources reported here. missions at Brussels, including one About 200 friends of the 33-year- calling for the creation of a per- old Jewish engineer assembled manent international secretariat outside the Supreme Court build- charged with negotiating with the ing in Moscow to await the out- USSR for the orderly, peaceful come of the appeal. evacuation of every Russian Jew Kukui was arrested last March who has expressed the desire to and was tried and sentenced on go home." June 15. He had publicly pro- The drive to get the Russian claimed Israel as his "fatherland" emigration issue on the United and demanded permission to emi- Nations .Gentral Assembly agenda grate. was bolstered Sept. 1 by Israel Menuha Tessil, a young Jewish Ambassador Yosef Tekoah's press activist from Riga, was released conference announcement that he from jail after serving one week had taken up the matter with of a two-week sentence for "hooli- Secretary General U. Thant. ganism." Miss Tessil was one of Even more encouraging signs three Jews who staged a hunger emanated from Washington where trike at the Riga visa office on the office of Rep. John Kemp, New Aug. 23 to protest the denial of York Republican, released a letter emigration visas. Her companions, from U. S. Ambassador to the Monia Yehielson and Yerachmaiel UN George Bush expressing his Trubeskin, are still in jail, Jewish personal belief that the assembly sources said. should take up the question. Four young Jews — three of Tekoah met with Thant to sub- them women — were tried and mit to him a letter from 531 sentenced in Kishinev for refusing Georgian Jews and appealed to to testify against their friends in Thant to "put on the agenda of the Kishinev trial of nine Jews last the coming session of the UN the month. Eta Bondar, Alechsander Zhenin question about the situation of those Jews in the USSR who wish and Olga Treigerman were sen- to go to Israel, to their historical, tenced to six months of "educa- national and spiritual homeland." tional forced labor." The fourth The Georgian Jews charged defendant, Riva Vacksman, was that "repeated appeals" for his given a $66 fine. aid in their emigration "have so far not brought about any effec- 3 Panthers Released tive results." Pending Their Trial The Jews — all of whom signed JERUSALEM (JTA) — Three their names — challenged the of- members of the Black Panthers, ficial Soviet claim that Jewish life in the USSR was receding including leaders Saadia Marciano because of assimilation. That, and Charlie Bitton, were released they said, would be "national from jail Monday although they suicide!' and "unacceptable" to had been remanded to custody for five days after giving themselves Soviet Jews. up in Zion Square last week. Actually, they wrote Thant, The Panthers were wanted in they have been subjected to "un- connection with an illegal demon- imaginable obstacles, judicial per- stration in Jerusalem two weeks secution, threats and intimidation" ago that ended in a pitched battle in their efforts to either live a with police. A police spokesman Jewish life in the USSR or leave said they were also under suspic- for Israel. The writers asked ion of theft. He said there was no Thant to "understand the entire point keeping them in custody be- tragedy of our life," act to pre- fore their trial. vent the "forcible detention" im- Bitton and Marciano had been posed on them in violation of hiding since the demonstration. international law, and put the All other Panther leaders, includ- whole sitution of Soviet Jewry on ing Reuben Abragill and Kochavi the agenda of the upcoming Gen- Shemesn, were released on bail eral Assembly. Their motto, the while their trial for causing a dis- eral said, was "Israel or Death." turbance and obstructing police Meanwhile, 96 Riga Jews have continued. An anti-Semitic Russian neigh- bor beat up Moshe Mendelevich, the father of Yosif Mendelevich, one of the defendants in the first Leningrad trial. According to the report, the neighbor who had frequently ex- pressed hostility toward Jews broke into the Mendelevich flat, pushed his wife aside and attacked the elderly man. Mendelevich was hospitalized and his wife was sent home after treatment. A daughter summoned police, who arrested the neighbor but re- leased him a short while later, the report said. A Hebrew-Russian and Rus- sian-Hebrew dictionary, which Soviet educational authorities announced for publication some time ago, is yet to appear in book stores, according to Jewish sources in Moscow. Would-be purchasers asking for the dic- tionary are told by book vendors that they never heard of it. The sources say it is not known whether the dictionary was with- drawn after printing or whether the original announcement was nothing but a propaganda stunt. The same sources reported that Soviet army units have closed the road to Rumpuli outside Riga, the gravesite of Jewish martyrs. When Jewish groups employed in clearing and restoring the site tried to reach it last Sunady, they were told that the area has been closed to civilians, the sources said. 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