JCCouncil Starts Campaign for Two Tbilisi Brothers Trying to Emigrate
The Jewish Community
Cuoncil has called upon its
member organizations to sup
port a campaign on behalf
of the Goldshtein brothers of
Tbilisi, Soviet Jews who are
seeking permission to emi-
grate to Israel. Grigory and
Isal Goldshtein have been
outspoken in demanding the
right to leave the Soviet
Union and recently partici-
pated in a hunger strike pro-
testing the harsh treatment
of Soviet Jewish activists.
The brothers have been
threatened with prosecution
for their activities, and it is
feared that a trial is im-
minent.
In a special notice to the
Community Council's 300 af-
filiated organizations, Coun-
cil President Hubert J. Sid-
low urged immediate action
to call greater attention to
the current situation of the
brothers.
Sidlow noted that last
month a trial wihch had
been in preparation in Minsk
was canceled by Soviet au-
thorities. It is believed that
the steady glare of publicity
and public attention from the
West was helpful in averting
this trial.
In this context, Sidlow
urged similar efforts on be-
half of the Goldshteins. He
recommended that wires,
cards and letters be sent to
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President Nixon, Soviet Party
leader Leonid Brezhnev and
Soviet Ambassador Anatoly
Dobrynin. Sidlow also sug-
gested that cards be sent di-
rectly to the Goldshtein
brothers for moral support.
A profile sheet giving
biographical data on the
brothers, plus their addres-
ses, was sent out as part of
the Council notice. Copies of
the profile and a listing of
addresses were protest let-
ters should be sent are avail-
able in quantity, free from
the Council office, 962-1880.
commissioner of investiga- outside the Soviet Union.
The woman, who had not
tion, who recently returned
In Israel this was seen as requested to go to Israel,
from a trip to the Soviet an effort by the Russians to left a letter saying she could
Union, said he found that substantiate their claims that not bear the shame of being
despite Soviet assertions to hundreds of Jews have chang- dismissed. She was dismissed
the contrary, certain Jewish ed their minds and no longer together with three other
scientists and others who want to emigrate to Israel.
Jewish physicians, Dr. Gab-
wish to emigrate have been Jewish Doctor Commits
riel Belitzeh, chief surgeon
subjected to loss of jobs, po- Suicide After Dismissal
of the hospital, Dr. Cogan
lice surveillance and har-
and Dr. Lieberman, none of
LONDON
(JTA)
—
A
39-
assment, and even imprison-
whom has asked for exit
year-old
Jewish
woman
phy-
ment for minor infractions.
sician from Kazakhstan in visas.
At a City Hall news confer- the Soviet Union commited
The dismissals were seen'3.4
ence, Scoppetta cited the suicide after she was dis- as a symptom of the anti-
cases of Dr. David Asbell of missed from her job at a lo- Semitism that has been
Moscow, a chemical engi- cal hospital, according to re- sweeping the Kazakhstan
neering professor, and Dr. ports reaching Tel Aviv.
region.
Fate of Soviet Jews
Boris Rubinstein of Lenin-
Remains Status Quo
grad, a physicist, who were 14—Friday, August 3, 1973
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
NEW YORK (JTA)—Nich- among the Jewish intellec-
olas Scoppetta, the city's tuals with whom he met
while in the Soviet Union.
He said that both academi-
cians lost their university
positions immediately after
filing applications to emi-
ciation should be entrusted to grate to Israel, apparently
in retaliation for doing so.
the newcomers.
Scoppetta, who has sub-
Besides this seemingly
legitimate demand, there ex- mitted a report on his trip
isted also the undercurrent of to John V. Lindsay, was join-
the political parties: the es- ed at the news conference by
tablishment is governed by Manhattan attorney David A.
veteran Labor leaders, while Goldstein, his former col-
the active group of the new- league in the Manhattan dis-
comers seems to be influ- trict attorney's office, who
accompanied him on the two-
enced by Gahal.
The uproar continued all week tour, June 22-July 4,
through the two days of par- and Stanley H. Lowell, chair-
ley when the question of the man, and other officials of
qualification of the delegates the Greater New York Con-
was raised. It turned out that ference on Soviet Jewry.
many of those present were
Lowell observed that Scop-
WITH
simply sent to the parley petta's report on his meet-
JULES ABRAMS & MARY MEDWED
without being elected or del- ings with Soviet officials re-
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egated by any group of Rus- flects the "total inconsistency
Every Thursday, 9:00 to 10:00 a.m.
sion Jews.
of 'official' explanations for
Mrs. Meir reminded such denying Soviet Jews the right
Soviet Jewish critics that to live as Jews in the Soviet
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they were free to raise their Union or to emigrate to ful-
voices in Israel as they could fill themselves as Jews else-
not in Russia and that while where.
shouting may not be needed
Meanwhile reports reach-
in Israel, "it is permitted." ing Tel Aviv from Soviet
Union says a number of Jews
in Minsk were summoned to
the ovir office several days
Jewry told the JTA that of ago and forced to sign state-
some 1,000 individuals on the ments in which they declared
list of Soviet Jews which they did not want to go to
President Nixon's national Israel.
They were people whose
security adviser Dr. Henry
Kissinger took with him to relatives in Israel ' or else-
Moscow last May, only 58 where had asked that they be
have received exit visas and allowed to join their families
only two-thirds of those have
left the Soviet Union.
WOODROW W. WOODY PROUDLY ANNOUNCES
Fabian Kolker, a member
THE OPENING OF THE BEAUTIFUL NEW
of the plenum of the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry,
told the JTA that one-third of
the Soviet Jews on Kissin-
ger's list who were given exit
visas did not leave the
Soviet Union because not all
the members of their families
— in most cases children —
were permitted to leave.
New Association of Russian Immigrants
Formed Despite Golda's Appeal for Unity
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Pre-
Gold Meir appealed
Tuesday to recent Jewish
immigrants from the Soviet
Georgian Republic who have
been the most vocifeous cri-
tics of conditions in Israel
among immigrant groups, to
join in action "for the uni-
fication of the nation".
Mrs. Meir's, plea for unity
apparently was unheeded.
The parley she was address-
ing at Beersheba broke up
Tuesday night in an uproar
and with announcement of
plans for a new association
of Russian Jews—limited to
those who arrived after the
Six-Day War.
"For your name of honor,"
the premier said in an ad-
dress to 400 delegates at-
tending the Second National
Conference of Russian Jews
in Beersheba, "Do not fol-
low the easy road. It is your
mier
Israel, your Ashdod, your
Jerusalem. There is no we
and you. We are all one na-
tion."
Referring to demands of
Georgian Jews for more
rights and more preferences
in various fields, she said
there were problems as well
as rights and that Israel
"Will be less good without
you. Give your hand to the
development of one state."
The friction between the
new immigrants and the old
immigrants—some of whom
came to Palestine before the
Soviet Union was established
—was felt from the start.
The veteran immigrants
from Russia, forming the es-
tablishment and handling the
association's affairs, were
blamed by the new immi-
grants with being strangers
to the problems of the new
immigrants, a n d therefore
the management of the asso-
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Times Report on Kissinger Visit Is Criticized
NEW YORK (JTA) — Two
Jewish leaders who met with
presidential adviser Henry
Kissinger on July 19 on the
problems of Soviet Jewry
have criticized a report in
the New York Times on that
meeting as "misleading" and
raising "false hopes."
The critics were Richard
Maass, chairman of the Na-
tional Conference on Soviet
Jewry, and Jacob Stein,
chairman of the Conference
of Presidents of Major Amer-
ican Jewish Organizations.
Max Fisher of Detroit also
participated in the July 19
meeting in the White House.
The criticisms were con-
tained in a memorandum by
Maass to the NCSJ member-
ship, dated July za.
The July 19 meeting was a
followup to earlier conversa-
tions held with Dr. Kissinger
on the issue, including a
meeting on May 2 at which
the Jewish leaders handed
Dr. Kissinger a list of 1,000
names of "hardship" cases
of Soviet Jews who have ap-
plied for exit visas and lost
their jobs for so doing, among
other harassments.
Dr. Kissinger promised to
present the list to Leonid I.
Brezhnev, the Soviet Commu-
nist Party secretary, during
his visit to Moscow in May
to make arrangements for
Brezhnev's visit in June to
the United States.
"Reflecting my own view
of the meeting," Maass said
in the memorandum, "Jacob
Stein has advised member
organizations in the Presi-
dents Conference that in his
view 'the Times story •raises
false hopes whereas the
meeting with Kissinger was
discouraging in the lack of
real progress reported.' "
The Times story on July 21
reported that Dr. Kissinger
told the three Jewish lead-
ers that Brezhnev had a-
ssured President Nixon that
a large number of Jews who
had repeatedly been denied
permission to leave the Sov-
iet Union would soon be al-
lowed to emigrate to Israel.
"In actuality," Maass said
in the memorandum, "Dr.
Kissinger reported on devel-
opments since the summit
meeting between President
Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev.
He indicated that he expect-
ed the probable release of
larger numbers of Soviet
Jews from a list of names of
hard core cases we provided
him and which were submit.
ted to Brezhnev in Moscow
in May."
CLUB
HOUSE
JERUSALEM (JTA) —Ab-
sorption Minister Natan
Peled told the Knesset that
14,370 Soviet immigrants
came to Israel between Jan-
uary and June. Peled said on
other occasions that the fig-
ure was 1,000 fewer than the
same period last year.
He gave the following
breakdown: from Georgia,
3973; from Bokhara, 1330;
and from the rest of the
USSR, 9067.
Significantly, the June fig-
ure was the lowest of the
six months and the only time
it dropped below 2,000 to
1923.
A story from Vienna a
week ago stated that 200
Soviet Jews who emigrated
to Israel are now in Vienna
seeking permission to return
to the USSR. The correct
figure should have been 100.
Maass reported that Dr.
Kissinger "indicated a lack
of progress in regard to
prisoners of conscience. He
also reported that' at the
Kissinger meeting, "there
was no sign of any change in
basic procedures which
would end the harassment of
Jews."
Maass added that the three
Jewish leaders "expressed
disappointment in the lack of
visible results to date, espe-
cially in regard to our de-
mands on emigration and
emigration procedures." He
added that Dr. Kissinger "did
pledge that administration
efforts would continue" for
Soviet Jews.
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