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March 17, 1972 - Image 21

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1972-03-17

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oos Parley on Soviet Jewry to Draw Leaders

UHICAtIO,L-Two - hundred religi- weekly-
2%-hour private classes, to observe Jewish law and that
ous; :Civic and human 'rights. lead-
ers, -, representing:.the - broadest were told by revame service in- synagogues are functioning un-
spectors
that they were unquali- hindered. Rabbi Daharashvilli had
spectrum
Ameritan theological
and political - thought, will meet fied to teach because they do an enthusiastic reunion at the air-
here -Sunday.--_and_-,Monday -for- the not have philologY degrees.
InRiga, 95 Jews. wrote to the port with his brother, Michael,
first Natkmal =Inteirelighius Con- chairman
who settled in Palestine 50 years
- of the Journalists --Asso- ago
- sultation on Soviet JetvrY,
aid whom he had not seen
dation of the Latvian Republic and during that
time.
-The meeting, which will be held to the editors of lzvestia, the So-
-,the University • of ., .Chicago's. viet government newspaper, and Gentile Alderman Receives Award
Center for. Continuing - Education, Tszina. They protested that recent for Aiding Emigration of Jew
aims to secure the widest possible articles attacking migration to
ATLANTA (JTA)—A non-Jew-
support for the -plight of >the Israel were not objective because ish alderman who helped Yaacov
3,000,000 Jews and other minori- they ignored the fact that "tens of Gluzman emigrate from the Soviet
ties in the Soviet Union' who are thousands" of Soviet JeWs have Union to be reunited in Israel
being deprived of their religious left or want to leave. The -writers with his wife, Rita, and their baby
and cultural: freedoms.
asked permission to hold a con- was awarded a commemorative
Israeli "Let My People Go" coin
The consultation - will culmi- ference to -give "our opinions."
nate Monday evening in what is
Twenty Jewish families in Mos- -here by tMoshe Gilboa, Israeli
consul
general for the Southeast.
expected to be the largest inter- cow have received visas to go to
Gilboa said Alderman Wyche
religioui assembly ever held on Israel, Jewish sources said. All the
Fowler'S
"humanitarian act on -be-
behalf of . Soviet Jewry, at Holy families had applied for emigra-
--Name Cathedral.
tion in recent months. There were helf of the Jewish family is a
shining example for human broth-
Following -n---rneeption at 7, a apparently no significant activists erhood, courage, and dedication to
. torchlight procession—of -national among them.
promote basic human rights in-
and local- religious leaders will Soviet Georgia's Chief Rabbi Says cluding one's right of emigration to
make its way from the Episcopal Jews - Cin,,Get Exit Visas to Israel one's homeland."
Cathedral of St. James to the Holy
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Chief Rabbi
On a State Department-spon-
Name Cathedral for the assembly. Yaacob Dabarashvilli of the Soviet sored visit to the Soviet Union last
Participating in the procession will Georgia; Republic arrived here November, Fowler raised the
be key figures in the Greek Orthe; and -reported - that the situation of question of Gluzman's emigration
dox Church, the Roman Catholic Georgian:Jew g - seeking to emigrate with Soviet officials, having read
Archdiocese, the Chicago Board of to. Israel was not at all-bad.
a story about Mrs. Gluzman in an
The 70-year-old white-bearded Atlanta newspaper. Within two
Rabbis and many Protestant
rabbi from Koutaisi, who speaks days, Gluzman's exit visa
groups. -
was
modern Hebrew fluently, said there approved.
Four 'Soviet Jewish Scientists
seemed to .be no obstacles prevent-
Appeal for Help to Leave
Georgia and Kentucky have be-
ing Georgian Jews from getting come the first two Southern states
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Great- exit
visas.
to pass official resolutions in sup-
er New York Conference on Soviet
He also reported that the Soviet port of the rights of Soviet Jewry.
Jewry made public a petition sent
-authorities
permit
Georgian
Jews
The Georgian measure was
to the International Red Cross by
Prof. Ei ■ sey -.Ratner, an eminent
Soviet specialist in plant physi-
ology, appealing for assistance for
his wife and himself to be reunited
with their daughter and grand-
daughter in Israel. _
Prof. Ratner is 72 and his wife,
Katzia, is 67. Both are invalids and
incapable of working. The profes-
sor is quite Pi, according to the
Conference, with- an - - eye 'disease
that has left him with a 50 Per cent
loss of vision. The Soviet authori-
ties have refused the Ratner appeal
on. the grounds that he is too itn-
portant a man to be -allowed to
leave.
Earlier, three Jewish scientists
in Moscow who are no longer
employed . asked Prof.- -•-Yural
Neeman, president of Tel Aliv
University, to help them obtain
exit visas so they can come to
Israel.

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at -

adopted by the House of Represen-
tatives. :---The Kentucky resolution
was passed by both houses of the
State's General Assembly.)
(The legislators asked President
Nixon "to call upon the Soviet gov-
ernment to permit the free exer-
cise of religion by all its citizens in

Sunday y

accordance with the Soviet con-
stitution, to end discrimination
against religious minorities, and
to permit its citizens to emigrate
from the Soviet Union to the coun-
tries of their choice aes affirmed
by the United Nations Declaration
of Human Rights.")

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, March 17, 1972-21

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After the last hand...

The letter was signed by Boris
Einsbinder, a staff member of the
Physical Chemistry Institute of
the Soviet Academy of Science;
Vladimir Roginsky, a_former staff
member of the Institute of Theo-
fetical and Experimental Physics,;-
and Serge Gurewitz, a former
staff member of the Institute of
Nuclear Science.
Chief Rabbi of France Protests

Arrests of Jews in Kiev
PARIS (JTA) —.France's chief
rabbi, Dr. Jacob Kaplan, cabled
Soviet Ambassador Piotr Abrassi-
mov to protest the arrests on three
consecutive weekends Of young
Jews at the Kiev synagogue and
the denial to young Jews of access
to it. -
The authorities in Kiev are
"very frightened of -world public
opinion," according to a Jewish
activist there. .
"They do not want the world to
know what is haPpening. to the
Jews in Kiev," Mikhail Radomyl-
ski reported to the Student Struggle
for Soviet Jewry in New York.
Jews in 'Tbilisi, Soviet Georgia,
'have been permitted by the au-
thorities to establish an ulpan, the
Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry
reported. There was no immediate
explanation of the decision other
than that the authorities saw it as
a way to undercut the Jewish- pro-.
test movement there. The Tbilisi
ulpan will be run by 'Gershonaod .
Shalva TsitsnashViii
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