WROITJEWISR NEWS
16—Friday, March 31, 1972
How Russia Responds to Jewish Demands
D r
tharther*Ile-synagogues in their, ments--marked with the word
country '-ond are fully recognizedrJew"—that they are Jewish but
they -don't know what a Jew is.
by the authorities.:
(Copyright 1972, JTA, Inc.)
Jews in the Soviet Union will
Generalizations serve to open
These Jewish youths are the
MOIRia
not have to worry about matzot the doer for Soviet officialdom to
for Jewish continuity in the
this Passover. No longer is the counter-argumetts. But try to pin
et Union. They are -not
BUICK
enydown tr4pecifics — as was --"aMianfed• - of being marked as
baking of matzo prohibited in the
USSR as, was the case until 1969. done with thespecific - demand for Jews, but they have no Jewish
DISCOUN,
A good deal of credit for this the revocatio•of the ban on matzo- knowledge whatsoever. They
achievement is due to Orthodox baking, or for:the printhig -of a have been nurtured in the Rus-
garrao.F017,..,.
.
American Jews, who understand Sidur — and they sudden' :lose
'
ry
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from the Soviet -government the world Jewish protests, they are existence of Jews. There has
for-Jowl *F 'Tights in bound to give in sooner or later been no Jewish history book pub-
is
with
when
presented
repeatedly
lished
in
the
Soviet
Union
since
based
on
ad-
Russia must be
the- CommuitiNF revolution took
vancing specific demands to the specific demands.
Not only was the baking of matzo place more than 50 years _ago.
Kremlin rather than to concen-
and
the
publication
of
a
Sidur
won
trate on demands _ couched in
In their search for anything that
by persistent'and vigorous specific
general terms.
can give them a clue to their Jew
The Soviet government is very demands, but also the publication ish past, these young men and
sensitive to Jewish protests in the in the Soviet Union of Sovietish women feel like orphans who do
free world. But when these pro- Heimland, the only Yiddish publi- not know who their parents were.
tests are voiced in generalizations, cation, and a foul-page sheet pub- And they are eager to know it;
Soviet officials. always find a way lished in Yiddish in Biro-Buljan. they want to know the Jewish past.
Perhaps the best example of
to argue that the charges do not
correspond to the actual situation. what concentration on specific de-
A gant.ral demand to the 'Soviet
mands can achieve is the request authorities to restore Jewish cul-
You talk to them about suppres-
to
the
Soviet
government'
to
,permit
sion of Jewish religion, and their emigration of Jews from the Soviet ture is good, but Jewish organiza-
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tions in this country would do
answer is: "We don't suppress
My People Go" was much betfer if they would come
Jewish religion." They point out Union, "Let-
a cnncrete and „s- Pecific .demand. out strongly and repeatedly with a
There was no generalization in specific demand for the publica-
this demand. Soviet officials could tion in the Soviet Union of a Jew-
Groundwater Course
not advance any. half-truths to ish history textbook. Concentration
Offered at Hebrew U.
counteract this demand. They of such a demand. may bring the
JERUSALEM Hebrew Univer- either had to permit Jewish emi- same results as the concentration
gration
or declare that they would on a demand for the publication
an
international
sity is . offering
course in groundwater research de- not permit it Their sensitivity of a Sidur. Other nationalities in
signed to meet the needs of the to Jewish protests abroad made the Soviet Union have their history
AIR FARE*
developing world._ Students from them yield to this specific,demand. textbooks, why not the Jews whom
The moral of all this is that the Soviet government considers
developed countries also have en-
WEEKLY DEPARTURES
rolled to benefit from its practical Jewish organizations in the United as a nationality?
EVERY. MONDAY
DAY
approach to exploiting water re- States, and in other countries of Another urgent and specific de-
the free world, must understand mand to be strongly advanced to
sources.
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April, May departures . .
The intensive English-language *hat only by concentrating on the 'Soviet government is the re-
course covers such subjects as specific demands can they hope to quest
for
permitting
the
formation
June, July August . . . . . . . 9 592
groundwater prospecting, hydrology' win concessions for Soviet Jewry in the Soviet Union of a central
and, hydrogeology. It is sponsored from the Soviet government.
WEEKLY. DEPARTURES
body
of
the
60
synagogues
still
in
by the division of international co-
One of the most important con-
EVERY MON, WED. do THURS
operation cf the Israel Foreign crete demands to be advanced to existence.
DAY
Ministry.
the Soviet authorities now is that These synagogues are scattered
$48e
April, May departures .
Cosoonsoring the project are a textbook of Jewish history be in various parts of the country and
TOURS
UNESCO and OAS (Organization published in the Russian language are isolated from each other, with
5
June,
July,
AugUst
of American States), which both for those who seek to know Jewish no contact _among them. One can
contribute financially to it.
history. The importance . of con- find them in the remote towns of
WEEKLY
DEPARTURES
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centrating on such a demand lies Siberia, the Urals, Central Asia,
MON, WED.; THURS.
in the fact . that Jewish youths in Georgia, Bukhara,. central Russia,
Rabbi Says Long Hair
the Soviet Union—especially the the Ukraine, the Baltic territories,
DAY
Is in Judaic Tradition
April, May departures . .
academic youth which totals about Bessarabia, Bukovina, Carpatho-
GLENCOE. III. (JTA)'— Jewish 95,000 students—yearn to learn Russia and in other , parts of the
TOURS
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June, July, August
young men whose lifestyle includes about their Jewish antecedents. Soviet Union. Each of them exists
long hair as a symbol of protest They see from their identity docu- on its own and is out of touch with
WEEKLY DEPARTURES
against the inequities of the adult
synagogue life in other localities.
EVERY SUN, MONDAY, WED.
establishment are following a valid
The formation of a central re-
Jewish tradition. in the view of Philadelphia Judge Drops ligious body for these synagogues
April,
May departures
-
a Reform rabbi here.
Charges -Against JDLers - is a. "must" if the Jewish religion
DAY
Rabbi Harold L. Kudan, asso-
in not to disappear in the Soviet
PHILADELPHIA
—
City
Hall
June,
July,- August . . . . T. .
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ciate rabbi of the North Shore Court Judge Richard Klein dismis- Union- within a few years.
*from New York (subject to government approval)
Congregation Israel here cited as sed all charges against three local
Soviet Jewish religious leaders
one of the laws of the Nazarites, officials of the Jewish Defense do not seem to be in a position to
in the Book of Numbers in the
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who had been involved voice their request for permission
Jewish Scriptures, that "there shall League
a public rally last December, to organize a central body of
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