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Don't Get Taken In, Soviet Jews Beg U.S. Leaders
The council learned of tempt is made to make you House Ways and Means Com- phone call to a leading Jew- man, a bus driver from Kiev
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said: "This is our own story
"There is no evidence at Sen. Cannon's meeting with admit that arbitrary selection mittee opens hearings on the ish 'activist in Moscow.
Seven New York Jewish a couple of thousand years
all that the Soviet Union five Moscow Jews in a tele- in granting exit visas is com- entire trade bill of which tne
would keep its promise even phone conversation with Jew- patible with freedom of emi- emigration element is a rela- students who were detained later — it is the Russian
if it made such a pledge ish sources in the Russian gration and does not contra- tively minor factor. It is not for several hours for demon- exodus 1973."
expected to receive much at- strating at the Moscow visa
dict it."
Sixty-two of those attend-
epenly and publicly which it capital.
Accepting such conditions, tention from the first witnes- office Friday for Soviet Jews ing the seder had arrived
The sources identified the
has not done. Indeed the So-
viet Union has an unbroken Jews as Boris Einbinder, the appeal said, "would have ses — Treasury Secretary were released later in the day from Russia on that very
record of breaking its word Benjamin Levitch, Kiril Hen- a tragic, irreparable effect George Shultz, Secretary of and told they could complete same day. Most reached
kin, Vladimir Slepak and and would mean the end of State William P. Rogers, and their visit to Russia which Vienna on the "Chopin Ex-
every time she gives it."
Two Detroiters — Max M. Lev Lebov. All are scientists all hope of repatriation for White House Assistant Peter was scheduled to end April press," the Brest-Litovsk-
Fisher and Paul Zuckerman who were dismissed from many thousands of Soviet Flanagan, who is the leader 21, according to reports re- Warsaw train which pulls
;nto Vienna's southern rail-
—were in •the group of 14 their posts and have been re- Jews." The signers of the ap- in pushing Soviet-American ceived here.
The seven were identified way station at 7:10 every
Jewish leaders who were in- fused exit visas to leave the peal said that they "distinctly trade.
The New York Board of by a spokesman for the Con- morning after a two-day trip.
fear forthcoming reprisals"
vited to the White House to USSR.
Rabbis in a letter to Presi- science Committee for Soviet Haggard, tired and un-
They reportedly told Sen. against them.
hear President Nixon's re-
If the apparent feelings of dent Nixon declared that "we Jewry as Yossi Klein, 19, - haven, they all insisted on
port that Brezhnev had re- Cannon that the education
lented on the education tax. tax, which Russian leaders the majority of senators who hope you will not grant most- Philip Pulver, 19, Philip attending the seder. For
The others in the group were: say has been suspended, is met with Brezhnev comes to favored-nation status to the Kornbluth, 27, Jules Leven- many, this was the first
Jacob Stein, Mrs. Charlotte not the only barrier to emi- be reflected among their col- Soviet government until it thal, 19, Alan Bindinger, 18, seder they had attended for
Jacobson, Melvin Dubinsky, gration but one of many ob- leagues, a rapid withering of subscribes fully to the terms Robin Schwartz, 17, and Riv- over 20 years. Eleven-year-
R a b b i Arthur Hertzberg, stacles. They said that their support for the Jackson of the Jackson Amendment." ka Friedman, 19. Another old Shurik Grossman asked
Barely 1 per cent of the spokesman gave the Jewish his father, "What is a seder
Rabbi Israel Miller, Yehuda particiular situation was not Amendment would appear to
funds
expended by the U. S. Telegraphic Agency a list of and why have we never cele-
be
imminent.
One
of
the
Hellman, Albert Arent, Day- related to the education tax
id Blumberg, Herman Weis- but to the fact that the Soviet group, Sen. Frank E. Moss government for refugee as- names which differed in some brated it before?" Grossman
man, Philip Hoffman, Albert authorities claim they cannot (D., Utah) who is not a co- sistance in 1972 went to the details and said that the Con- assured him, "We shall catch
Spiegel, Dr. William A. Wex- be permitted to leave because sponsor, said in Moscow that project for Soviet Jews emi- science Committee was "con- up in the future, from now
ler and Jerry Goodman. they had been exposed to he thought the Jackson grating to Israel, Secretary nected with" the Zionist Re- on we will never miss one."
Amendment "is going to have of State William P. Rogers visionists of America and that
They called the meeting state secrets.
At the same time, in the
They reportedly told the a tougher time" in view of reported to Congress. Of the the demonstrations were the heart of Vienna, 96 other
"historic," and it was re-
expenditures.
totaling
Brezhnev's
latest
move.
first
in
a
series
planned
ported that these leaders re- American lawmaker that
Russian Jews who had left
There have been indica- $263,470,000 last year, Rogers within Russia.
mained firm in support of the many other Jews were in
Israel and are waiting per-
said,
only
$2,890,000
was
for
Seven Jewish prisoners at mission to return to the So-
Jackson Amendment. Only their position although no tions of some withdrawal by
the
Soviet
Jewry
project.
The
some
major
adherents
from
the Perm forced labor camp
one in the group, accord- Russian Jew has ever been
the Jackson Amendment as bulk of the funds was used in the Ural mountains are viet Union, spent a dismal
ing to a New York Times exposed to state secrets.
and tragic night in the slum
for
Cuban
refugees
in
the
According to the sources, now constituted, although
protesting against conditions building which houses them
correspondent, had indicated
U.
S.,
$139,000,000;
Southeast
none
of
the
76
senators
or
Sen.
Cannon
said
he
was
sur-
in
the
glass
and
plastics
fac-
being influenced by the Pres-
Asian refugees, $77,000,000; tory there which they say at No. One Malzgasse, where
ident's report which was prised by what the Jews told the 278 representatives who
they live. The house is
aimed at preventing action him and expressed regret are 'backing the legislation the UN Relief and Works are responsible for the seri- crumbling and dirty. Inside,
Agency
for
Palestinian
Refu-
have
flatly
said
on
the
record
that
he
had
not
met
with
ous
illness
of
some
of
the
on the amendment. The Pres-
naked light bulgs swing back
ident reportedly snapped his them prior to meeting with they were withdrawing from gees In the Near East (UN- prisoners who work in the and forth, plumbing pipes
RWA)
$23,200,000;
and
Sudan
it.
factory, the East Bay chap- gape from the walls, the
fingers during that meeting Brezhnev.
According to a newspaper refugees $10,030,000.
Sen. Cannon reportedly
ter of the Bay Area Council paint is moldy and peeling.
to indicate that as of the mo-
Thus far in 1973, the U. S. for Soviet Jews reported.
anent that proposal could se- told the Jewish group that report that has not been con-
"We are nonetheless glad to
Brezhnev claimed that the firmed, Rep. Wilbur Mills has provided $31,000,000 for
cure speedy 'approval.
The 200 Jewish immigrants live here—it is a step nearer
Soviet
Jewry
out
of
the
(D.,
Ark.)
who
introduced
only
Jews
not
'permitted
to
Sen. Griffin Influenced
who arrived in Lod Airport home in the Soviet Union,"
leave the USSR were those legislation identical to the $50,000,000 legislated by Con- Sunday from the Soviet Un- an old woman says in Yid-
by Brezhnev Statement
gress
for
Soviet
refugees
of
Jackson
Amendment
in
the
WASHINGTON (J T A) — whose departure would be
ion included 60 'academicians dish.
Seven U. S. senators, four of contrary to the interests of House, has "indicated" be all 'backgrounds. "The move- who did not pay the education
The Malzgasse inhabitants
will now support most fav- ment of Jews from the Soviet tax which the USSR. has re-
them co-sponsors of the the state.
had no seder. They have
Jackson Amendment, appar- Sen. Cannon was believed ored nation benefits to the So- Union to Israel picked up mo- portedly suspended.
neither the means nor the
ently were persuaded at a to be the only one of the sev- viet Union when the voting mentum during 1972 when Soviet Jews' Sedarim
some
32,000
people
made
the
desire for one. Some of them
comes
on
the
omnibus
legi-
meeting with Soviet Commu- en senators to have had con-
Retell Story of Exodus
have been living at Mali-
nist Party Chief Leonid Brez- tact with Jewish groups in slation that encompasses the journey" Rogers said in his
LONDON (JTA) — Jewish gasse for three years; others
Soviet-American trade agree- "U. S. Foreign Policy Report
hnev in Moscow Monday that Moscow.
for 1972."
sources in the Soviet Union joined them a few months
A group of more than 100 ment.
the Soviet Union is sincere
Soviet
Activist
Jailed
reported
that many Jewish ago. All failed to adjust to
Senate
Republican
Leader
in its intention to suspend the Moscow Jews released an
education tax on emigrants, appeal to American Jewish Hugh Scott, who was first to After Getting OK to Leave families throughout the USSR life in Israel.
NEW YORK (JTA)—P•om- held sedarim at 'home. Most
They claimed that Jewish
mostly Jews, leaving the leaders Monday not to aban- announce the President's re- inen•
Leningrad Jewish ac- sedarim were attended by Agency officials had made
USSR. don their support of the Jack- port to a group Of congres-
tivist Nicolai Yavour — who friends and neighbors. Most every effort to persuade
One of the co-sponsors. son Amendment while Jews sional leaders of the "sus-
earlier received permis- read the Hagada in the Rus- them to remain. One refu-
Sen. J. Glenn Beall (R., Md.) were being refused exit visas. pension," has since then said had
sion to emigrate to Israel and sian version but there were gee, who refused to reveal
he
is
"in
sympathy
with
a
as
saying
The
appeal
of
the
Moscow
quoted Brezhnev
paid the required education quite a number who could his name, said his wife was
that the Soviet Union did not Jews said: "Those who are Jackson Amendment" but
tax — was sentenced to a read the Hebrew text and still in Israel and was not
intend to let the Jewish emi- refused exit visas under the "specific wording of that
gration issue stand in the pretext of national security amendment must be worked year imprisonment on understand it, including young permitted to leave unless he
charges of "hooliganism," people, the sources reported. repays the Jewish Agency
way of improved trade rela- or without any move at all out cautiously."
The next public act in the the American Jewish Con-
Jewish sources in the So- the IL 7,500 ($1,800) it claims
tions with the U. S. and 'must not be sacrificed."
would do whatever was neces- They warned that "an at- issue is due May 9 when the gress has learned in a tele- viet Union reported that a it spent to bring them to Is-
number of young Soviet Jews rael. "How can we celebrate
nary to remove it as a point
who had applied for exit visas a seder and say 'next year
of contention. Sen. Vance
to
go to Israel, including Yev- in Jerusalem,' when we wait
Hartke (D., Ind.), another co-
geny Levich, 25, the son of for permission to return to
sponsor, said Brezhnev was
Prof. Benjamin Levich, and Moscow?" said an old man
"prepared to go a practically
Edward Finkelstein of Vilna, who gave his name as Kap-
unlimited route" to secure
31, •have received call-up pa- lan.
both short- and long-term
pers to report for service in
trade relations with the U. S.
The Russians are apparent-
the Soviet army. Military ser-
Another member of the
ly refusing to grant them re-
vice in the Soviet Union is
group, Sen. Robert P. Griffin
selective, and students are turn visas and seem to want
of Michigan, the Republican
not called up as a rule. But to use them as "an example"
minority whip, said that
with Jewish activists the pro- of what happens to discon-
Brezhnev had "confirmed the
cedure is that first they are tented elements. Most 9f the
information relayed to Pres-
expelled from the institutions refugees work as unskilled
ident Nixon a week ago that
of higher learning, and then laborers. They barely earn
the education tax had been
are called up for military ser- enough to feed their families
suspended. I hope now in the
vice as people without em- and pay their 300 shilling
light of these developments,
ployment or any other occu- ($12) rent per person and
the Jackson Amendment will
per bed. The building's own-
pation.
not be offered on the floor,"
er, believed to be a local
Seventy-six
Soviet
Jews
Griffin said.
attended a s p e c i a 1 seder Jewish businessman, has set
Still another amendment co-
at
the Schoenau S c h l o s s up 10 to 15 beds per room.
sponsor in the group indi-
near
Vienna. They were There is no heating and only
cated later to a group of
mainly
from Moscow, Kiev one water tap on the landing
Moscow Jews that he was
and
Czernowitz.
The Schoe- for dozens of families.
surprised by what they :told
Many hope that the Rus-
nau
Schloss,
which
is run by
him of the situation of Jews
the Jewish Agency as a tran- sians might make a gesture
in Russia because it was at
sit center for the refugees, on May 1 and grant several
variance with what he and
was decorated for the occa- return visas. They say that
his colleagues were told by
sion with blue and white 12 people have been allowed
U. S. Senator Henry M. Jackson, left, receives a citation from the Zionist
Brezhnev.
flags,
the Hagada was read back to Russia and "what
Organization
of
America
proclaiming
the
creation
of
a
permanent
scholarship
in
The senator, Howard W.
by two rabbis and many of we need now is patience."
his honor at the ZOA's Kfar Silver Agricultural High School in Israel. The ZOA
Cannon (D., Nev.) took the
the newcomers joined in the Seder night in Vienna was.
established the scholarship, to be awarded annually, in recognition of Sen. Jackson's
initiative of contacting Jews
reading. Some said that the for them a return into the
"unique contributions to the cause of human rights and social justice" and his "dis-
in Moscow after the meeting
story of Exodus took on a night. Some said, It is diffi-
tinguished leadership" in support of U.S. foreign policy "furthering the de facto alliance
with Brezhnev, the Bay Area
new significance and in- cult to be a Jew — tragic to
now existing between the United States and Israel." Making the presentation are,
Council for Soviet Jewry in-
from left, Jacques Torczyner, chairman of the ZOA administrative board; Beinesh tensity. Alexander Gross- be a Russian one."
formed the Jewish Tele-
Epstein, consultant to the ZOA public affairs department; and Herman L. Weisman,
graphic Agency Tuesday in
Friday, April 27, 1973-23
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
president of the ZOA.
San Francisco.
ZOA Scholarship Honors Sen. Jackson