Sharp Drop in Soviet Jewish Emigration Arouses Worldwide Concern Jewry in various lands;• and the status of Jewish educa- tion in the Diaspora. The weekend's meeting was presided over by Mrs. Charlotte Jacobson, acting chairman of COJO and chair- man of the World Zionist Or- ganization-American Section. Participants included Leon Dulzin, acting- chairman of the Jewish Agency and WZO Executives; Jacques Torczy- ner, chairman of the World Congress-American Jewish Section; Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organiza- tions; and Stanley Lowell, chairman of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. A session on Soviet Jewry was addressed by Sonia Ler- ner, 20-year-old daughter of THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Prof. Aleksandr Lerner, who 6—Friday, May 10, 1974 was allowed to emigrate to Israel although her father, a Moscow activist, is still denied a visa. "Only pressure from abroad has made it pos- sible for people to leave the Soviet Union," she said. According to figures sup- plied to COJO, only 6,270 Jews left Russia in the first four months of 1974 compared to 10,270 in the same period of 1973. The declaration adopted after the meeting ex- pressed appreciation for "the continued strong support which the fight for the rights of Soviet Jews is receiving throughout the world" and resolved "to intensify our efforts on behalf of Jews in the Soviet Union." Addressing a press confer- ence, Dulzin accused Soviet authorities of double-dealing on the emigration issue. He said that while the au- thorities claim that 95 per Cent of visa applications are granted, would-be applicants are barred from making their applications by crude bureau- cratic devices, and many others are deterred by fear of harassment. Rabbi Miller disclosed that during the meeting in Wash- ington April 25 between a ALEX CARU ANA score of leaders of the Con- 1974 International ference of Presidents of and Michigan State Major American Jewish Or- ganizations and Secretary of Team Champion State Henry A. Kissinger, the 1973-1974 problem of Soviet Jews was A Man and His Image Champ the main topic of discussion. (After the April 25 meeting, Also Featuring: a statement was issued not- ing that the meeting "par- ticularly focused on the sec- 1974 International Trophy retary's forthcoming visit winner and 1973 and negotiations in the Mid- Master Champion dle East" but did not indicate and that the issue of Soviet Jewry had been discussed.) In Tel Aviv Dr. Nahum Proprietor Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress, MANICURES by warned Sunday night that if U.S.-Soviet trade relations foundered over the issue of SHOE SHINES the Jackson Amendment "the AVAILABLE may be a total stop- For Appointment Coll: result page of aliya from Russia." Speaking to reporters at • Ben-Gurion Airport, Dr. AS OF JUNE 1 Goldmann, however, con- OPEN TUES. thru SAT. ceded that the Jackson legis- LONDON (JTA) — World Jewish leaders meeting here last weekend expressed seri- ous concern about the sharp drop in the number of Soviet Jews perniitted to leave for Israel during the first four months of this year and the continuing harassment of Jews who apply for exit visas. The matter of Soviet Jews topped the agenda at the meeting of the Presidium of the Conference of Jewish Organizations (COJO) attend- ed by Israeli leaders and representatives of Jewish communities all over the world. The COJO agenda also in- cluded the plight of Jews in Syria and other Arab coun- tries; the position of Diaspora boneyweii barber sawn GUY MINNELLA MICHAEL KELLY • SARAH 424-8466 SAY I WI H lationcould possibly have the opposite effect and lead to a more liberal Missian policy on the Jewish question. "But it is a very serious gamble that may endanger aliya from Russia," he said. For that reason, Dr. Gold- mann said he favored reach- ing some sort of compromise on the Jackson Amendment linking trade to Soviet emi- gration policies that the amendment's supporters could accept. He also expressed the opin- ion that "there is no chance of an agreement with Syria without an agreement with Russia as well." 14 Jews Renounce Soviet Citizenship LONDON (JTA) — Jewish sources in the Soviet Union reported that 14 Jews went to the reception hall of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow to hand in applications to release them from Soviet citizenship on the grounds that they all wished to emigrate to Israel. They pointed out in their applications that they had been unable to obtain the necessary forms for the re- nunciation of citizenship from the- ovir or any other govern- ment agency. They had been told the issue was not im- portant enough. Among those who want to renounce their Soviet citizen- ship are Valery Kryzhak and his wife, Valeria, Lev Kogan, Lev Gendin, Michael Gold- blat, Boris Tsitlionok and Leonid Tsipin. Some 200 Jews who sought to a ss emble at Rumbuli Forest near Riga on May 2 were prevented from doing so by local police, it was reported by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. The Jews, who arrived on buses at the cemetery to commemorate the massacre that occurred there in 1942, were met by police who or- dered -them to reboard the buses, but detained several of the known activists, the NCSJ said. Lev Gendin, a 33-year-old Jewish activist from Moscow was beaten by hooligans who provoked him while he was standing in line for a drink of water, the National Con- ference on Soviet Jewry re- ported. As he was being beaten around his head, he called for help, but no one came to his aid. An electronics engineer, he applied in April 1971 for an exit visa. In another incident, the NCSJ reported that 25 Kis- hinev Jews, who had lost their jobs because they ap- plied for exit visas, were warned against participating in a May Day parade in that city. The group had gone to the Kishinev municipal building to ask how they could partic- ipate in the parade for work- ers when they were unem- ployed. The deputy mayor told them that if they left their homes on May Day they might not return. Eitan Finkelshtein, a 32- year-old scientist, was taken off a plane in Vilna as he was about to leave for Mos- cow reportedly to press his case for an exit visa. A group of Minsk Jews, in- cluding two former Red Army colonels, have called for a Byelorussian poet to be tried for alleged anti-Semi- tism in a poem about the Second World War, according to a Moscow report. An open letter, signed by 13 Jews in the Byelorussian capita 1, said the poem, "T hrough -the War," by Maxim Luzhanin described friendly relations between various Soviet national groups at the front and claimed everyone could be met there except "the cow- ardly ferrets." The letter's authors sug- gested that Luzhanin had chosen the word "ferret" to represent Jews because the sharp-faced animal was as- sociated in the public mind with "the Jewish counten- ance." The poem, according to the letter, said the "fer- rets" sat in the rear in the war, but if by 'accident they were sent to the front "they sewed themselves up in storehouses and kitchens." At the same time their wives Beth Din for Agunot TEL AVIV (ZINS) — The chief rabbinate has set up a special Beth Din to hear the cases of 810 agunot whose husbands are missing in action from the Yom Kippur War, but their remains were never recovered for burial in Israeli soil. Some are expec- ted to still be alive. "keenly grabbed hold of pa- Soviet Union was published tient Tashkent." only with official approval. Many Jewish families were evacuated from European WANT TO BUY A HOME? 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