Minsk Jews Warned: Keep Youth Out of Synagogue or Else•••
NEW YORK (.1TA i—The reli-
gious affairs minister of the Soviet
Belorussian Republic entered the
Minsk synagogue several
w eeks
ago and warned the congregants
to keep younger Jews out or face
possi h I e "unpleasant conse-
quences." according to information
from Jewish sources reaching
here.
Youni:er Jews - have no place
in the synagogue, and you must
make them leave," the minister
reportedly said, offering the as-
sistance of the police should it he
necessary. If this plan is not car-
ried out, the minister reportedly
emphasized. "maybe we will de-
cide that the synagogue is not
needed at all." Ile said the au-
thorities wanted to build a hous-
ing project on the site.
In another reported develop-
ment, physicist Herman Barn-
over of Riga has been threaten-
ed with a trial if he continues
conducting a Hebrew class in
the synagogue.
Barnover, an observant Jew,
quit his physicist's job a year ago
when he was unable to practice
a religious life. His wife. who is a
doctor, was fired when the family
applied to emigrate to Israel.
The Swedish Committee. for So-
viet Jews claimed that a recent-
ly formed Jewish organization in
Moscow is' run by members of
the KGB, the Soviet secret police.
According to the committee, the
purpose of the organization known
as• "The Popular Liberation Move- -
ment for Jews in the Soviet Union"
is to trap Jews expressing anti-
Soviet ideas. The Moscow organi-
zation was formed in January.
Jewish sources reported that the
lay leader of the Moscow Jewish
Community, surnamed Rozin, was
dismissed from his post by Soviet
authorities because an unauthor-
ized memorial meeting was held
at the Moscow synagogue. Rozin
was appointed by the authorities
following the death of the former
lay leader, surnamed Mikhalo-
vitch.
A detail of the KGB blocked the
path of more than 100 Jews w ho
went Sunday to the mass graves
of Nazi victims at Ponary near
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Wilna to place wreaths and re-
cite prayers.
The Jews walked in silence
:wound the KGB cordon to reach
the gravesite. Two were arrested
and later released. Seven Jews
were arrested following a memo-
rial meeting at Babi Yar near
Kiev on April II. The arrests were
made on charges of resisting au-
thorities after police had diSoersed
the crowd.
About 300 Latvian Jews par-
ticipated at a memorial meeting
fo7 Holocaust victims at Rum-
hull, near Riga. Services were
held at the site of the mass
graves of Jews murdered by the
Nazis and their Latvian colla-
borators.
Four Jews who participated were
arrested. Two were sentenced to
I5-day jail terms and two were
expelled from Riga.
A Jew;sh couple in Kiev held a
hunger strike to protest attempts
to deprive the wife of custody of
her 10 year-old daughter by a pre-
vious marriage
The couple. Mr and Mrs. Simon
Bernstein, claim the legal proceed-
ings started by Mrs. Bernstein's
former husband, were instigated
by Soviet authorities after the
Bernsteins applied for visas to ge
to Israel.
The British Dental Association
has written to the Soviet ambas-
sador and the secretary of the So-
viet Medical Scientific Society in
Moscow to protest against the con-
tinued imprisonment of Boris Azer.
nikov, a Jewish dentist.
At the United Nations, an ap-
peal from a Ukrainian Jew, who
was confined to a mental hospital
March 4 after applying for migra-
tion to Israel. was presented to
Roberto F. Guyer of Argentina,
undersecretary general for special
political affairs. by Israeli Ambas-
sador Yosef Tekoah.
Informed sources said Guyer
reacted sympathetically to the
plea from Yuri Brind, a 42-year-
old master-engraver of Kharkov,
Nixon Urged by NCJW:
Reconsider Pledge to Aid
Private, Parochial Schools
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Na-
tional Council of Jewish Women
has expressed concern over Presi-
dent Nixon's pledge to extend fed-
eral aid to nonpublic schools. Mr.
Nixon made the pledge April 6 to
the convention of the National
Catholic Education Committee in
Philadelphia.
In a letter to the President,
Mrs. Earl Marvin, NCJW presi-
dent, stated that the intent to give
aid to parochial schools runs coun-
ter to a number of court decisions. •
In a related development,
proponents of state aid to pri-
vate schools expressed regret
at the ruling by a three-man
Federal District Court curtail-
ing such aid in New York State
until it decides whether the 1970
Mandated Services Act is con-
stitutional.
Meanwhile. the Jewish Commu•
nits Relations Council of Greater
Philadelphia has endorsed a rul-
ing by a three-judge federal court
in the Pennsylvania capital ban-
ning state reimbursement to par-
ents for private-school tuition.
Ancient liar-Kokliba
C • Found on Danube
LoNooN (JTA t—A coin found
by archeologists during a dig on
the shores of the Danube River
has been identified as one of the
Bar-Kokhba coins, issued during
the revolt of 132-135 CE.
The coin bears the Hebrew in•
scription. "In The Second Year of
Israel." which means that it was
minted in 133 CE The obverse of
the coin has the name Simon
inscribed upon it and a picture of
a palm tree.
whose smuggled letter was sent
April 5—hut apparantly has not
yet been delivered—to Secretary
General Kurt N aldheim and to
the Human Rights Cimmission.
to
expre,,eti their de,re to
The interfaith group i•xpresscil
particular concern over the plf.2.ht
' of Syl% a Zalmanson Koznet.0%,
Brind wrote that he applied for I whose "strict regime'' imprison
eniieration Jan. 13. but on Feb. I ment was termed by the religious
his home was searched and there-
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took him forcibly to the asylum
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Vladimir Slepak. the Soviet Jew •
ish scientist and activist who re-
fused to take a gravel-loading job
for physical reasons, has accepted
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take a menial job or face trial for
"parasitism," which carries a sen-
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also reported that Prof. Sergie
Gurevitz. the Jewish physicist of
Moscow who was ordered to ac-
cept a factory job or face the same
charge, has agreed to work as a
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that Esther Markish, widow of
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murdered in the Stalin purges.
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sources said. Mrs. Markish and her
son, David, have made repeated
but unsuccessful attempts to gain
visas to go to Israel_
A letter with 72 signatures of
Jews in Kovno and Wilna was
received by President Zalman Sha-
zar. one of numerous messages
of greetings received by Israeli
leaders from Jews in the Soviet
Union on Israel's_ Independence
Day. The Jews who wrote to Sha-
zar expressed the hope that they
would he in Israel by this time
next year.
In Hempstead, N.Y.. a group of
19 Christian and Jewish leaders
has appealed to Soviet Premier
Aleksei N. Kosygin "for the prompt
release of the Jewish prisoners in
your country who have fervently
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