100,000 Petitions for R ussian Jews Accepted by Ambassador Bush at UN
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)—U.S.
Ambassador -George Bush accepted
100,000 petitions for Soviet Jewish
rights that were rejected by the
Soviet embassy in Washington. The
petitions demand Soviet observance
cf the "clear and unequivocal
. . . essential human right" of emi-
gration expressed in the United
Nations Charter, and urge the
Kremlin to "stop your inhuman
persecution of the Jews in the So-
viet Union."
The petitions were presented to
Bush by Philip E. Hoffman, presi-
dent of the American Jewish Com-
mittee; Rep. Sidney R. Yates
(D., Ill.), a colleague of Bush's
when the envoy was a Congress-
man; Enoch and Marjorie Silver-
stein of Chicago, who unilaterally
printed the appeals and launched
the signature drive (he is an offi-
cial of-the Community Council of
Jewish Organizations of Chicago);
David Geller, the AJCommittee's
European affairs specialist, and
Judah Graubart of the AJCommit-
tee's Chicago staff.
Bush said that while a non-Jew
like himself could never "fully
understand diaspora Jewry's
feeling about the situation of
Soviet Jews, he felt "a tremend-
ors persbnal drive to try to be
effective, to be helpful."
On June 8, Bush accepted peti-
tions signed by 8,300 Christian
leaders and subsequently delivered
them to Secretary General Thant.
The envoy was startled to learn
that the general media, including
the New York Times, were not cov-
ering the presentation by their own
choice, as they had been invited.
Israeli Ambassador Tamar
Eshel declared: "Whilst on the
one hand the Soviet government
lavishes generous support for
advancing and activating the spe-
cific cultural and national attri-
butes of dozens of national
groups, we find that the full
force of the Soviet state is mar-
shaled against the survival of
Soviet Jews as Jews, and any de-
vice is conjured up to suppress
their desire for a national life, a
life of dignity and identification."
Ambassador Eshel said that only
"a small number of the 70,000 So-
viet Jews who have applied for
migration to Israel have been al-
lowed to go. Meanwhile, she noted,
"/".2 Jewish political prisoners"
were serving long sentences under
"harsh conditions" solely because
of "their audacious persistence in
JDC Hebrew U. to Train Center Staff
JERUSALEM—Establishment of
the Dr. Joseph L. Schwartz train-
ing program for community center
personnel at _the Hebrew Univer-
sity in Jerusalem was announced
here following an agreement by
the university and the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee.
JDC Chairman Louis Broido said
the first 12-month graduate course,
with an enrollment of some 20
students, would be - given during
the current academic year through
the university's school of educa-
tion and the Paul Baerwald School.
To finance the program Malben,
the JDC agency in Israel, will pro-
vide IL 125,000 (530,000) annually
over the next five years to match
an equal sum provided by the uni-
versity.
Michael Sterner Takes
Bergus' Post in Cairo
WASHINGTON (JTA).-Michael
Sterner, 43, the State Department's
director of Egyptian affairs for the
past two years, is to take charge
of the American "interests section"
in Cairo sometime this week.
Sterner had previously served in
Cairo as the American Embassy's
political officer in 1960-64. Sterner
has been connected intimately with
Arabic matters for almost 20 years
in both private and diplomatic
affairs.
He succeeds Donald Bergus, who
has held the post since shortly
after the Six-Day War.
maintaining their pride and iden-
tity and their determination to
leave for Israel, their home."
She added that she had learned
by telephone that the three Wilna
Jews recently sentenced to 15 days'
imprisonment for "hooliganism"
were in the sixth day of a hunger
strike.
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The State
Department took issue with the
charge by the Soviet Ambassador
to the United Nations, Yakov
Malik, that the Jewish Defense
League and "Zionist" militants
were responsible for firing four
rifle shots into an 11th story win-
dow of the Soviet UN Mission in
New York. A Department spokes-
man condemned the shooting but
said, "until we have some results
from the police investigation we
cannot say who might be in-
volved."
Malik, speaking in the UN Gen-
etal Assembly, castigated US au-
thorities for failure to take neces-
sary measures to effectively pre-
vent a systematic campaign by
"Zionists" and other "hostile ele-
ments" against the Soviet Union.
The . US Ambassador - to the UN,
George Bush, answering the
charges, denounced the shooting as
an "outrageous, cowardly, hostile
act.' He blamed it on "extremists"
which he -did not identify. Secre-
tary, of State William P. Rogers
called the Soviet Ambassador to
Washington, Anatoly F Dobrynin,
and expressed "shock and out-
rage."
An official Soviet* tour group
consisting of 18 members—about
half of them Jews—is expected in
the United States traveling under
the auspices of the Soviet govern-
ment and will visit New York,
Washington, Kansas City, San
Francisco, Los Angeles and pos-
sibly other cities.
This seems to be borne out by
the presence in the group of CoL
Gen. David.Dragunsky, the highest
ranking Jewish officer in the Soviet
Army who has vine on propaganda-
missions for the . Kremlin before.
Dr. Schwartz joined the JDC
staff in 1939. He served as di-
rector-general of its overseas op-
- erations until the end of 1950,
helping Jewish refugees escape
from Nazi Europe.
After the war, he organized a
massive program of aid to the
Holocaust survivors.
Dr. Schwartz served as executive
vice chairman of the United JeW-
ish Appeal from 1951 to 1955 and
led the Israel Bond Organization
for the next 15 years. He is a vice
chairman of the JDC and a mem-
ber of its administration commit-
tee.
Broido said the 14 community
centers in Israel, six to be opened
soon and 40 to be built all need
professionally trained personnel. t
*
The centers are located mainily
in low income areas in the cities
and development towns, with most • *
of the residents comparatively re- *
cent immigrants with varying
levels of education," he said.'
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Gen. Dragunslcy was in Brussels
last February where he organized
a counter-meeting to the World
Jewish Conference on SoViet JewrY
being held there.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (JTA) —
The board of directors of the Min-
nesota Council of ChurcheS adopted
a resolution expressing solidarity
with the efforts of Soviet Jews...to
emigrate to Israel or to live as
Jews in.the Soviet Union with full
cultural and religious equality.
LOUISVILLE — A denomination
based mainly in America's heart-
land, the Christian Church (Disci-
ples of Christ), is making an un-
usual appeal to the Soviet Union to
stop persecuting Jews:
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