MarkkirParzle: Widow and Son Seek
Exit While USSR Honors Late Poet
PARIS (JTA) — More than 30
members of the French National
Assembly have written to the
Soviet ambassador in France, Piotr
Abrassimov._ to demand that Mrs.
Esther Markish and her son,
David, be allowed to emigrate from
the Soviet Union. The widow and
the son of the late poet and writer,
Peretz Markish, were refused re-
cently, for the fourth time, a re-
quest to leave. Their economic
situation has meanwhile worsened
and they are reported to be in
desperate straits. A campaign for
their release has also been
launched by the Association of
East European Jews in France.
The association's chairman, Sal-
mon Friedrich, has published an
appeal "to all men of free spirit"
to write to the Soviet ambassador
Holes in West Wall Being Probed
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier Arab house from collapsing. The
Golda Meir appointed a special Arabs were said to have done the
commission to investigate the drill- work without adequate supervi-
ing of four holes in the Western sion.
Wall and other construction work
Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jeru-
on the site which already has salem and the city engineer have
brought an angry protest from denied responsibility for the act
Sephardic Chief Rabbi Itzhak Nis- that has caused an uproar in the
sim.
Orthodox community here.
The holes were reportedly drilled
Chief Rabbi Nissim, in a tele-
by Arab workers employed by the gram
to Kollek, demanded that the
Jerusalem Municipality in order house be torn down immediately.
to insert iron bolts through the wall The building is inhabited.
to keep an adjacent 800-year-old
Haim Kubersky, director gen-
eral of the interior ministry who
heads
the investigative commis-
The Beginnings
sion, told the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency that they hoped to have
of a Gragger
a report ready by the weekend.
Kubersky said the commission's
findings would be reported to
the prime minister only and that
she alone will decide when to
release them.
Archeologists here said that the
stones into which the holes were
drilled were not part of the orig-
inal Herodian wall which sur-
rounded the temple area but dated
from the Omayyad, an early Arab
period beginning in the 8th Cen-
tury.
Nevertheless, Jewish religious
tradition holds all parts of the wall
sacred whether or not they exist-
ed at the time of the Temple.
The stones dating from the later
period are known as the "little
wall." They were used for prayer
during the period of the British
Mandate in Palestine when Arab
unrest made the Western Wall
inaccessible to Jewish worshipers.
The house was endangered by
tunneling operations carried out
by the ministry for religious af-
Informal Jewish education pro- fairs to expose more of the West-
grams at Jewish Community Cen-
ern Wall. Stones lying beneath the
ters affiliated with the National
"little wall" are believed to date
Jewish Welfare Board - focus on from the Herodian period.
the meaning of Purim. The young
member of the Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,
Jewish Community Center is
fashioning a noise-maker in the
Center's gragger workshop
properly to greet the mention of
liaman's name when the Megilla
is read during Purim.
Mikhail Mikhailovich, 72,
Choral Synagogue Head
The USSR Novosti Press Agency
this week released the following
obituary text:
Mikhail S. Mikhailovich, 72,
chairman of the board of the
Choral Synagogue of Moscow,
passed away suddenly Jan. 21 in
Moscow. He was born in the Odessa
Region. At the age of 11 the boy
began to work in a dry goods store.
Later he did managerial work.
In 1941 Mr. Mikhailovich joined
the Volunteer Corps. Soon there-
after he enlisted in the field forces
of the Soviet Army and fought
against the German invaders. He
was badly wounded in 1943. After
his recovery, he occupied a lead-
ing managerial post.
For almost 10 years, Mr. Mik-
hailovich was chairman of the
board of the Moscow Choral Syna-
gogue.
He attended numerous confer-
ences in his lifetime, always call-
ing for peace and understanding
among the Jewish communities in
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Canada.
The tunnel lies about eight
yards beneath _the endangered
house in the old Moslem quarter.
The chief rabbinate wanted the
house demolished and Its tenants
relocated - but the Jerusalem
municipality decided to try to
keep the building intact.
Jewish sources say less than
500 Arab dwellings are located
in the area but sources close to
the Moslem Supreme Council
claim the number is closer to
1,000.
The drilling created a furor in
the Orthodox community and in
the city council. The religious
council members, however, accept-
ed Mayor Terry Kolleck's state-
ment that he was shocked by the
drilling.
The matter is expected to come
up for debate in the Knesset,
where the Orthodox factions have
already submitted agenda motions.
Jewish Defense League
Offers Hebrew Lessons
The Detroit chapter of the Jew-
ish Defense League is now offering
Hebrew lessons 7 p.m. Thursdays
at the JDL office. They are free
to JDL members, and nonmem-
bers may enroll for a minimal fee.
The class instructor is Mrs.
Allan Karden, a graduate of Wayne
State University.
For information, call the JDL
t47`-'2863, "Elf Witte JDL,
P.O. Box 3703, Oak Park, 48237.
and to ask the USSR to allow Mrs.
Markish and her son to emigrate.
*
There is a real puzzle over the
Markish case. While widow and
son of the late USSR Yiddish poet
are seeking emigration visas,
Novosti Press Agency this week
released a tribute to Peretz Mar-
kish.
The Jewish News is in receipt,
from the USSR embassy in Wash-
ington, a lengthy article by the
Novosti correspondent Ruvim Gro-
yer, entitled "Peretz Markish: His
Works and Literary Heritage."
Groyer's tribute commences with
the paragraph:
"The works of Peretz Markish,
the outstanding Jewish poet and
one of the founders of the Soviet
Jewish literature, take up a lot
of space on my bookshelves at
home. The books begin with a
pocket edition and wind up with
several big volumes 700 or 800
pages long."
Tributes by many Russian writ-
ers of note are quoted in the Gro-
yer article which concludes with
the statement:
"The works of Markish have be-
come an inseparable part of the
multinational Soviet literature."
* c r
The names of Esther and David
Markish are appended to the open
Israeli Parties Seek
USSR Jews' Support
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, February 18, 1972-41
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The heavy
influx of Jewish emigres from
the Soviet Union has heated up
rivalries between Israeli political
parties for the allegiance of the
newcomers, it was indicated in a
speech by Israel Yeshayahu, sec
retary general of the Labor Party.
Addressing women party membrs,
Yeshayahu complained that because
the Mapam faction controls the
absorption ministry, that party has
closer, more direct contact with
the new arrivals and as a result
there appears to be a slowdown in
the trend of new immigrants to
join the Labor Party.
Yeshayahu said he was "horri-
fied" at the recent 28th World
Zionist Congress by the presence
of a "Russian immigrant front
composed of members of Herut
and the National Religious Party"
who expressed the belief that
Rabbi Meir Kahane and his mili-
tant Jewish Defense League did
-
more than the Israeli public and
its institutions.
A group of recent immigrants
from Soviet Georgia met with It-
zhak Ben-Aharon, secretary gen-
eral of Histadrut, and condemned
the incitement by ultra-Orthodox
circles among newcomers. They
said emissaries of Agudat Israel
were operating among the Geor-
gian Jews and inciting them
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Social Workers Honor
letter addressed by 60 Russian
Jews asking for full national rights Greek Jew for Service
in Israel and which concludes with
DENVER—Cecile Misrahl, over-
the "If I forget thee, 0 Jeru- seas social service consultant of
salem . . .
the Joint Distribution Committee,
has been named "Alumna of the
Year" by the Alumni Association
of the University of Colorado
School of Social Work.
She received the award on
Recognition Day in Denver in rec-
BY RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
ognition of her "contribution to
(Copyright 1971, JTA, Inc.)
social work education and social
Some people stand up when the work in general."
Torah is read in the synagogue.
The award to the Greek Jewish
Some consider the occasion of social
worker crowns a distinguish-
reading the Torah in the syna- ed
professional career. It included
gogue to be representative of the in her
early years, a period as
occasion of the revelation at Mt.
Sinai. Since the Israelites were youth worker for JDC in Greece
and
Morocco
and later, 11 years
standing when they received the as instructor then
director of the
Torah at Mt. Sinai, many wor-
shipers stand when the Torah is YWCA School of Social Work in
Athens,
Standing When
Torah is Read
b'
e n g read in the synagogue
Others sit because the reading of
the Torah is regarded by some
as a form of education. In the
process of education one is per-
mitted to sit. There are those who
claim that our tradition follows
the custom of sitting when the
Torah is read because our gener-
ations are considered somewhat
weaker physically and according
to some, somewhat weaker spirit-
ually, lacking the same commit-
ment that caused people of pre-
vious generations to stand in awe
and in reverence when the Torah
is being read.
It is necessary to pronounce a
benediction before each portion
of the Torah is read.
There is a general rule which
requires a benediction to be pro-
nounced before the performance
of a mitzva. Reading the Torah
is one of these mitzvot. However,
the benediction which is recited
before the reading of the Torah is
not like the usual form of bene-
diction which is pronounced be-
fore performing a mitzva. It
carries witk it the additional in-
ference that we are the chosen
people and that the Torah which
we read is especially revealed to
us by the Almighty. An additional
purpose of the benediction, there-
fore, is the reminder to one's self
and to the congregation that the
scriptures we read are not simply
the inventions of man, but rather
the eternal and immortal words
expressing the will of the Almighty
as given to His chosen peop/
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