Father's Provision in Will—`Marry Jewish'—Contested by Son
YOUNGSTOWN, 0. — A
lawsuit is pending here in-
volving a Jewish doctor's
unusual will that requires
his son to marry a Jewish
girl or else lose his inherit-
ance.
The suit was filed in Pro-
AI's
bate Court here by the son,
Daniel Jacob Shapira, in an
attempt to void a portion of
the will of his father, Dr.
David Shapira, a psychia-
trist. The will said the
younger Shapira had to
marry "a Jewish girl born
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Another son, Mark, was
given similar conditions, but
was given a five-year limit.
He has not filed suit.
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of Jewish parents within
seven years of his father's
death or else lose his share
of the in heritance," an Ohio
newspaper reported.
If the son did not comply,
the will states the money was
to go to Israel. An inventory
of the estate is incomplete,
however, one report estimat-
ed Daniel's share at $100,-
000.
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Defendants in the case are
Mark; a daughter, Ruth
Shapira Aharoni, the third
beneficiary in the will; the
State of Israel; and Union
National Bank, executor of
the estate.
Appeals for Levich So Far in Vain
officials answered that "since
Brind, sentenced to 21/2
he has been drafted — that years in 1971, has been
means he is healthy."
singled out by prison guards
The case of Evgeny Levich and other prisoners in anti-
has attracted the attention of Semitic attacks. The NCSJ
prominent political and aca- said that it is apparent that
demic figures who have is- they- plan to make Brind's
sued appeals to Soviet relatively short sentence a
authorities on his behalf.
difficult one.
Jewish sources in the So- Anniversary of Massacre
viet Union reported that of Jewish Artists Marked
Alexander Temkin, whose 13-
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
year-old daughter Marina 21st anniversary of the mas-
was abducted from their sacre of 24 Jewish poets and
Moscow home and sent to writers in the infamous Lu-
the "Orlyonok" prisoners' bianka Prison in Moscow
camp, has written an open was marked Monday with
letter to lawyers all over the the reading of their poems in
world asking them to inter- Yiddish and English by
vene in his care to help re- Columbia University stu-
verse the decision which de- dents on the steps of the
prived him of parental New York Public Library.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Stanley H. Lowell, chair-
Friday, August 17, 1973-11 rights.
Two daughters of Mark man of the Greater New
Dymshitz, the Jewish pilot York Conference on Soviet
who was sentenced in De- Jewry, which sponsored the
cember 1970 to death and readings, said that the deaths
his sentence later commuted of the Jewish writers, poets
to 15 years imprisonment for and public figures was the
allegedly attempting to climax of a four-year cam-
smuggle a group of Soviet paign by Soviet authorities
Jews out of the country in to eradicate Jewish culture
a plane from Leningrad, ar- in the USSR.
Between 1948 and 1952, 217
rived in Tel Aviv Monday.
Elizabetta, 20, and Julia, Jewish writers, 108 actors,
17, arrived alone because 87 painters and sculptors
their mother decided to re- and 19 musicians were ar-
main in the USSR and wait rested, most of them later
dying in Soviet labor camps.
for her husband's release.
Lowell said the tragedy
Among the arrivals was
NEW YORK (JTA) — "I
am surrounded by stone
walls which thus far have
proved to be impenetrable
to my personal efforts,"
prominent Soviet scientist
Benjamin G. Levich said
after months of appeals on
behalf of his son, Evgeny, a
25-year-old astrophysicist.
Evgeny was drafted into
the army May 16, in ap-
parent retaliation for his
father's activities in his own
struggle to obtain permission
to emigrate to Israel.
In response to Prof. Le-
vich's contention that his son
is unfit for military duty,
-
Lev Korenblit, a 51-year-old
physicist, who was sentenced
to three years' imprisonment
in 1971 for Zionist activity.
He was released last June.
His wife and daughter ar-
rived in Israel last year.
He said he served in a
labor camp near Potma. The
regime, he said, was diffi-
cult but he succeeded in
studying Hebrew through
books he received.
The National Conference
on Soviet Jewry reported
that Arkady- Shpilberg, who
was sentenced to three years'
strict regime at the May
1971 Riga trial, has been re-
leased from prison in the
Soviet Union, and that Yuli
Brind has been transferred
to Voroshilovogradskaya Pri-
son in Oblast Petrovskaya.
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made Soviet Jews more de-
termined than ever to dedi-
cate themselves to their his-
tory and culture.
He urged American Jews
on the anniversary of the
massacre to "rededicate our
efforts to help free Soviet
Jews, so that they can ful-
fill themselves as Jews
whenever they desire."
Meanwhile, the Workmen's
Circle urged the present
leadership of the Soviet
Union to "rehabilitate the
names and reputations of
those murdered on the
basis of outrageously false
charges." The Workmen's
Circle said the 24 were mur-
dered "for no other reason,
than that they were Jewish
and vital to Russian Jewish
life."
`Death With Dignity' Concept
Dangerous: Talmud Scholar
The "right to death with
dignity," the general feeling
that doctors should not over-
ly prolong the lives of the
incurably ill, is decried by a
talmudic scholar who con-
tends that the decision to
terminate life is beyond
man's competence and warns
that the concept could lead
to the elimination of lives
felt to be a burden upon
society.
Rabbi J. David Bleich, on
the talmudic faculty of the
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theo-
logical Seminary and as-
sistant professor of philoso-
phy at Stern College for
Women, writes on the new
field of bio-ethics, "Estab-
lishing Criteria of Death,"
in a recent issue of Tra-
dition, published by the
Rabbinical Council of Amer-
ica.
Rabbi Bleich states that
"It is exceedingly difficult
to argue against the indi-
vidual's right to 'die with
dignity,' which is rapidly
joining motherhood, the
Fourth of July and apple pie
as one of the great American
values." Stating that one has
a right to dignity both in
life and in death, he asks
speaking, is a 'right?' "
Contending that even the
most sophisticated defini-
tions of death, including the
new definition "brain death,"
are constantly being debated
by the medical profession,
Rabbi Bleich argues that "as
long as life is present the
decision to terminate such
life is beyond the competence
of man."
Pragmatically, he says, "a
decision not to prolong life
means precluding the appli-
cation of some new advance
in therapeutics to secure a
remission or cure for that
patient should a break-
through occur."
Rabbi Bleich asks "If the
comatose may be caused to
`die with dignity,' what of
the mentally deranged and
the feeble-minded incapable
of 'meaningful' human ac-
tivity? Withdrawal of treat-
ment leads directly to overt
acts of euthanasia; from
there it may be but a short
step to selective elimination
of those whose life is deem-
ed a burden upon society at
large."
Brain death and irrever-
sible coma, writes Rabbi
Bleich, are not acceptable
definitions of death accord-
whether "death, properly ing to Halakha (Jewish law).
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