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have not received permission
to emigrate. While they wait
for permits, they are left
NEW YORK (JTA) — Ac-
without means of support.
Local sympathizers have cording to information re-
been sending packages and ceived from Moscow, the Stu-
letters to help these families. dent Struggle for Soviet
Jewry learned that Sen. Ed-
ward Kennedy (D.-Mass.), on
his visit in the USSR, met
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The meeting at the home
of Prof. Lerner apparently
was held at Kennedy's re-
quest. He confirmed he had
met with the activists but
declined to discuss details.
He said he would report on
the conversations when he
returned to the United States.
The activists told Western
newsmen who came- - to the
apartment that they had told
Kennedy about their prob-
lems. They said Kennedy
told them he had appealed to
Soviet leaders to make a
"magnanimous gesture" on
emigration which would meet
a response from the United
States.
Prof. Lerner said Kennedy
had been urged to make cer--
t a i n adequate safeguards
were included in any com-
promise by Congress on the
emigration issue.
In New York, windows at
11 branches of First National
City Bank were broken April
24 by a group calling itself
the Sternist Committee.
According to a bank spokes-
man, the group's action was
in opposition to the recent
opening of a First National
City branch in Moscow.
The spokesman said that
beginning at 2:20 a.m., and
for every 10 minutes after, a
different bank was hit. The
banks were scattered
throughout Brooklyn.
At 3:30 a.m. someone called
a news agency and said the
"Sternist Committee" had
just broken the windows at
11 First National branches.
The caller said this was in
retaliation for First National
City opening a Moscow
branch in order to increase
Soviet-American trade.
The heads of 12 Columbia
University schools last week
asked Soviet leader Leonid

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VICTORIA, ISAAC AND IRMA POLTINNIKOV

Brezhnev to grant an exit
visa to. Jewish scholar Vitali
Rubin, who has been invited
to teach at Columbia.
In a letter addressed to
Brezhnev, first secretary of
the Soviet Communist Party,
they said they were "deeply
distressed that certain hu-
man and academic freedoms
have been withheld from
Prof. Rubin." .
An authority on classical
China, Rubin, 51, has twice
been denied permission to
leave the Soviet Union. He
has been removed from his
post at the Soviet Institute
of Oriental Studies of the
Academy of Sciences, he has
said, and has been prevented
from earning a living. Re-
ports say he is now threat-
ened with a jail term for
"parasitism."
Signing the appeal to allow
Rubin's departure from the
Soviet Union were: Elie Abel,
dean of Columbia's graduate
school of journalism; Ber-
nard Beckerman, dean of the
school of the arts; Richard
Darling, dean of the school
of library service; George
Fraenkel, dean of the grad-
uate school of arts and sci-
ences; Mitchell Ginsberg,
dean of the school of social
work; Wesley Hennessy, dean
of the -school of engineering
and applied science; Frede-
rick Keener, dean of summer
session; Peter Pouncey, dean
of Columbia College; Willis
Reese, director of the Parker
School of Foreign and Com-
parative Law; Donald F.
Tapley, acting dean of the
college of physicians and sur-
geons; Aaron Warner, dean
of the .5 chool of general
studies; and Edward Zega-
relli, dean of the school of
dental and oral surgery.
An appeal to Brezhnev on
Rubin's behalf, made by
Columbia President William
J. McGill last summer, was
unsuccessful.
In a related action, Colum-
bia faculty members and
scholars at Hebrew Univer-
sity are working on a project
to translate some of Rubin's
works into English and pub-
lish them for distribution in
the Western world.
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From Speaking Out, But
They Can't Stop Us," the
theme of the parade. Many
of the spectators wore but-
tons saying, "They Can't
Stop us."
Many of the marchers sang
in Hebrew and shouted slo-
gans reminiscent of the civil
rights marches of the 1960s
— "Freedom Now," and
"One, two, three, four, open
up the iron door; five, six,
seven, eight, let my people
immigrate." There were also
signs urging freedom for
Syrian and Iraqi Jews.
Stanley H. Lowell, Confer-
ence chairman, presided at
the rally.
Among the marchers were
40 prominent Jewish and
Christian clergymen repre-
senting Soviet prisoners of
conscience; academicians in
caps and gowns showing
support for their beleaguered
colleagues in the USSR;
youths in prison garb and a
huge float depicting a Soviet
labor camp tower.
The march ended at Dag
Hammarskjold Plaza near
the United Nations where
Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D.-
Wash.) declared that "Thou-
sands of brave people in the
Soviet Union are depending
on us" to use the United
States' "leverage to bargain
hard for progress toward the
free movement of people be-
tween East and West. I can
tell you that the Congress is
more determined than ever
to insure that our economic
strength is harnessed to the
cause of freedom of emigra-
tion by enacting into law the
Jackson/Mills-Vanik amend-
ment."
Jackson scored the Nixon
administration's opposition to
the amendment which would
bar U.S. trade benefits and
credits to the Soviet Union
unless it relaxes its emigra-
tion restrictions.
`Rep. Robert F. Drinan (D.-
Conn.) also pledged that Con-
gress would not back down
from its support of the J/M-
V amendment.
Drinan, a Roman Catholic
priest who represented the
National Interreligious Task
Force on Soviet Jewry, de-
clared that the problem of
Soviet Jewry is one for Chris-
tians throughout the world
because "It is their neglect
and their silence which has
allowed this agony to go on."
Drinan also called for the
Pope's aid to Soviet Jewry
and for the Vatican to recog-
nize Israel.
Among those participating
in the rally were Rabbi
Ova d i a Yosef, Sephardic
chief rabbi of Israel; Mayor
Abraham D. Beame; Sen.
Jacob K. Javits (R.-NY);
Likud leader Menahem

By DAVID FRIEDMAN
NEW YORK (JTA) — An
estimated 200,000 Jews from
the New York metropolitan
area Sunday shoWed their
support of Soviet Jews seek-
ing emigration by marching
down Fifth Avenue in the
annual Solidarity Day Free-
dom March. Thousands lined
the streets to watch as the
marchers of all ages, but
predominantly young, filed
by carrying • such signs as,
"They Can Stop Soviet Jews THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

50 Prisoners in Perm
Go on Hunger Strike
LONDON (JTA) — Jewish
sources in the Soviet Union
reported that 50 prisoners in
two forced labor camps in
Perm have gone on a hunger
strike in protest against their
treatment.
They demand better con-
ditions, a change in the
starvation d i e t, and the
transfer to hospital of the
ailing Soviet dissident writer
Vladimir Bukovsky. Jewish
prisoners in the two camps
who joined the hunger strike
are Hillel Butman, Leib
K n a k h, Wolf Zalmanson,
Mark Dymshitz, Yossef Men-
delevich, Yossef Mishener,
Anatoly Altman, David Cher-
noglaz, Lev Yagman, Simon
Grillius and Oleg Frolov.
The National Conference on
Soviet Jewry has just learned
that the Dorfman family of
Kishinev has received per-
mission to emigrate.
The family consists of
Miron, 49, his wife, Shendel,
and their two daughters,
Bella and Rozalia. The en-
tire family has been very
active in the struggle for
emigration, writing petitions,
staging hunger strikes and
suffering the consequences
the Soviet authorities meted
out for this, the NCSJ re-
ported.
The NCSJ said Leonid
Zabelishinsky, a 'Sverdlovsk
Jewish activist, who was
given a six-month sentence
for parasitism after he ap-
plied for an exit visa to Is-
rael, was released at the end
of April.

New Judaica Center
Sets Convocation

NEW YORK—A new na-
tional Jewish agency, de-
voted to creating new pro-
graming for Jewish institu-
tions and new resources for
Jewish family living, will be
unveiled publicly at a convo-
cation on May 10, it was an-
nounced here by Rabbi Jon-
athan D. Levine, president of
the Center for Contemporary
Judaica.
The center was created
without fanfare two years
ago, to serve as a research
agency and to engage in ex-
perimental programing for
Jewish religious and com-
munal institutions.
The convocation coincides
with publication of the Cen-
ter's "Likrat Shabat," a new
text for both home and syna-
gogue.-observance of Sabbath
eve.

60,000 Tourists Paid
Israel Visit in March

JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
There were 60,600 tourists to
Israel in March, compared
with 57,900 who came during
the same period last year,
according to latest figures
released by the Central Sta-
tisticdl Institute. In the first
three months of 1974 Israel
received 126,100 visitors,
compared with 128,000 during
the same period last year.
This represents a slight de-
cline of 2 per cent.

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