Observers See No Rhyme, Reason in Soviet Visa Policy

by municipal authorities and told citizens, he concluded, have "suf- The U.S., he said, should not in-
Meanwhile, a slight increase
emigration
with Soviet
they could not assemble at Bahl fered from the Soviet government's terfere
in the number of Jewish immi-
Yar for memorial services because refusal to consider emigration as policies inasmuch as it bars travel
grants arriving from the Soviet
by
Americans
to
China
and
Cuba.
"other nationalities were killed a right rathar than a privilege."
Union was noticed in March and
Schaufele said he regretted that Schaufele's "cold war" statement,
there."
the trend continuing during the
Yevdokeyev said, failed to acknowl-
first 10 days of April.
The Kiev Jews, who had applied . the commission has not given
edge that visas are granted to
Political circles in Israel pre
to the city council for a permit , priority to this issue.
Soviet Jews who want to leave for
Soviet
delegate
Nikifor
I.
Yev-
dieted that Russian authorities to hold the services, advised the
The Georgian Jews present spe- would increase the number of exit authorities that "in view of re- dokeyey called Schaufele's charge religious or other "genuine" rea-
cial problems for Israeli absorp- permits granted to Jews so that cent experiences outside the syna- a "slanderous diversion" to draw sons, and these are mainly elderly
tion authorities. The journalists when President Nixon visits Mos- gogue of Kiev (a reference to ar- attention from the "horrendous" and children, "some of whom re-
turn to the USSR."
were taken on a tour of Kir,:at cow May 22, they can point to
rest of congregants), we ask you American practices in Indochina
Malachi where a large number of significant number of emigrants to take steps to ensure that the
Friday, April 14, 1972-23
Georgian Jews have been settled should the President raise the is- said incidents are not repeated on THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
i
under the auspices of the Chabad sue of Jewish emigration.
this occasion and that the memo-
Hasidim. Teachers and advisers
The situation of Soviet Jews was rial gathering be held in peace
have been sent to them on orders the subject of a television panel and tranquility."
SERVING ONLY PRIME A
from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Men- discussion Tuesday night in which
Meanwhile, sources said, 25 Mos-
AND CHOICE MEATS
achem Mendel Schneersohn, who
cow Jews have appealed to Amer-
lives in Brooklyn.
Related Stories Page 24
ican and European Jewish com-
munities to help prevent future
But a visit to a factory in the
Chabad township revealed that the participants were Dr. Gold- incidents like the recent harass-
many Georgian Jews have dif- mann, Prof. Shmuel Ettiner of the ments of Jews by the police out-
ficulty adapting themselves to work Hebrew University and Avrahm side the Moscow synagogue on the
Member t Deal ,, A
discipline. In their native country Agmon, director general of the night of the first Passover seder
Kosher Meet Deel.n Assoc.
this year.
they were mostly small shopkeep- I finance ministry.
Agnon, who served six years
ors. Here they report late to their
According to the sources, 400
shifts and often refuse to work in at the Israeli Embassy in Mos- Jewish boys and girls refused to
the afternoon or evening. The fac- cow, claimed that unless the So- leave the synagogue area and
tory produces concrete telephone viet authorities halt emigration, were dispersed by the police, only
13721 W. 9 MILE at RIDCEDALE
pylons and parts of prefabricated the number of Jews departing to reassemble near a martyrs'
will
reach
the
hundreds
of
thoi-
houses. But the Georgian workers
monument.
do not make an effort to do their sands, perhaps millions.
They were then attacked by the ,
Premier Golda Meir, who made officials, suffering injuries, and 30:•
work properly, the journalists ob-
a guest appearance on the pro- of them were arrested and later •
served.
gram, said she hoped Soviet emi- released. On the second seder
Dr. Nahum Goldmann warned
gres would settle in development night, fewer Jews attended syna-
that action should be taken
areas in Israel.
gogue: all of thtm were told to
against the danger that Jewish
Warning Sounded: Jews in USSR
go inside, and were dispersed
emigration from the Soviet Union
Face Renewal of Pogroms
after the services.
will be halted once the most
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Worldwide
vocal Jewish groups and individ-
The synagogue is now surround-
reaction in the form of demonstra-
uals have departed from that
ed by mobile fences set up by
tions and condemnation of recent
country. He said further that he
the police to discourage crowds.
attacks on Russian Jews may be
believed the number of Jewish
COPENHAGEN (JTA) — Scan-
the only, effective measure to pre-
immigrants from the USSR will
vent pogroms in the Soviet Union dinavian monitoring services re-
be numbered in the tens of thou-
port that the Soviet Union used
according to Yehezkel Polarowitz,
.
chairman of the Assirei Zion, an an especially heavy barrage to
dreds of thousands.
try
and jam Kol Israel broadcasts
organization dedicated to helping
His remarks on Jewish emigra- Russian Jews imprisoned for Zion- in Yiddish and Russian during the
Passover holidays. New Soviet
tion from Russia, made at a press ist activities.
Polarowitz said that unless ener- jamming stations were apparently
conference here, were similar to
those he made before the Board getic steps are taken to rally pub- used in an attempt to totally black
of Deputies of British Jews in Lon- lic opinion in reaction to recent out Israeli broadcasts to northern
don last December. As a result of attacks on Jews going to syna- Europe. Last week the Soviet news
his remarks then, the World Zion- gogues in Russian cities, "we may agency. Tass, accused Israel of
broadcasting anti-Soviet propagan-
ist Organization Executive can- face the renewal of pogroms."
Jewish sources said that a Jew- da in its foreign language pro-
celled his address to the 28th
t World Zionist Congress. Dr. Gold- ish activist in Kharkov, Yuri grams.
"Vos meint ihr?
mann was accused at the time of Brind, has been incarcerated in a U.S. Charges USSR Violating
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playing down the primacy of aliya mental institution as harassment Movement of Its Citizens
OPELS & HONDAS
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) —
when he said that a majority of for seeking to go to Israel. The
besser
handlen?"
IMMEDIATE DELIVERY
Jews will remain in the Soviet sources in New York said Brind The United States charged the So-
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Union and that efforts must be was taken "by force" on March viet Union with violating the free-
made to protect their religious 24 to the asylum. On April 3 he dom of movement of Soviet cit-
and cultural rights in the Soviet launched a hunger strike. The izens, especially Jews, in restrict-
sources reported Brind as saying: ing their emigration. American
society.
"I have not committed any crime, representative William E. Schau-
Dr. Goldmann's current three-
and I ask to be helped to get out fele told the Commission on Hu-
day visit to Israel is his first since
of this hell."
man Rights that the Soviet policy
his controversial speech. He is
Jews in Kiev were prevented
toward Jewish emigration was an
here to participate in a memorial
from holding memorial services
"outstanding example" of such vio-
meeting for the late Lord Sieff of
Tuesday morning at Babi Yar in
lations.
Brimpton and to appear on a tele-
memory of the Jewish victims
He scored what he called the
vision panel on Soviet Jews. The
of the Holocaust, the Student harsh treatment of Jewish activists
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World Jewish Congress -president
Struggle for Soviet Jewry told
and the sentencing of some of them
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is also marking the publication
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency- to forced-labor terms. All Soviet '
here of the Hebrew translation of
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his memoires, They have already tiamen, the Jews were summoned
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cause some of the most vocal ad-
vocates of Jewish emigration have
been persecuted and remain in
the Soviet Union, while others who
have campaigned just as fervently
are now in Israel.

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Judea District Towns
Plan Municipal Election

NEW YORK—The Jewish Labor
Committee and the United Federa-
tion of Teachers of New York City
announced that four lesson plans
on Soviet Jewry, sponsored by the
Jewish ' Labor Committee /United
Federation of Teachers Committee
for Soviet Jewry, have been pub-
lished by the UFT in its news-
paper, the United Teacher.

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Towns in
the Judea district are preparing
for their municipal elections to be
held May 2, the first since the
Six-Day War.
Campaigning is already under
One-hundred-thousand teachers,
way in Ramallah, Bethlehem and
Beit Jala. In Hebron, Mayor Mo- in New York State have received
hammed Ali Jaabari has called a the lesson plans and thousands
public meeting at the town hall more are being sent to Jewish and
non-Jewish sources, as well as to
to r:ecide on election procedures.
Most of the town's voters re- locals of the American Federation
portedly favor an uncontested list of Teacher AFL-CIO throughout
of candidates under the mayor's the United States. French and
leadership though a number of in- Spanish editions of the lesson
dividuals are campaigning for in- plans are now being prepared.
The lessen plans briefly describe
dependent lists of their own.
Meanwhile, the new town coun- ' Russian anti-Semitism and 1 he
Jewish
struggle for freedom from
cilmen elected in the Samaria dis-
trict and in Jericho on March 28 Czarist times to the aftermath of
. the Six-Day War.
took office Wednesday morning.

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