THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
U. S. Congressmen Protest Repression of Soviet Jews
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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
urged Mr. Nixon to press for
t'open doors for Soviet Jews."
Kennedy described his recent
midnight meeting with Soviet
activists on his visit to Mos-
cow. "After listening to them,
I bring you a message," he
told the crowd. "They remain
committed to their ideal.
They remain firm in their
faith. And they remain de-
termined to live in Israel in
freedom."
Israel's Foreign Minister
Yigal Allon told the ICnesset
Tuesday night that Israel
had "reason to hope" that the
United States would raise the
issue of Soviet Jewry "at the
highest level" during the
summit conference in Mos-
cow.
He said the issue hvl been
discussed with President
Nixon during his recent visit
here, and t h,e r e were
"grounds for assuming" that
the appeal "had not fallen on
deaf ears."
Anon, who is also deputy
premier, was responding to
motions by Likud on the
stepped-up harassment of
Jewish activists in advance
of the Nixon visit to Moscow.
The Zionist General Coun-
cil sent President Nixon a
cable asking his intervention.
Nuclear physicist Andrei D.
Sakharov on Monday in Mos-
cow urged _President Nixon
and Leonid I. Brezhnev to
take up the issues -of free
emigration and free exchange
of information in their talks.
He asserted the importance,
of "the freedom of emigra-
tion and return" for all per-
sons, as set out in Article 13
of the United Nations Gen-
eral Declaration of Human
Rights.
In another communication
to President Nixon, Harold
Ostroff, president of the
Workmen's Circle, assured
him that "No Soviet Jew
poses a threat to your visit"
to Moscow. "Reports that So-
viet Jews are being corralled
and imprisoned during your
stay should evoke strongest
protests from you."
Reports over the weekend
that the Soviet government
was prepared to guarantee in
writing to allow 45,000 Jews
to emigrate annually to Israel
failed to receive confirmation
at the White House, the State
Department, or in the Senate.
The National Conference on
Soviet Jewry and the Great-
er New York Conference on
Soviet Jewry reacted to the
reported 45,000 per annum
quota offer with disdain. The
Soviets are "playing a cyni-
cal numbers game with hu-
man lives," said a joint state-
ment issued by Jerry Good-
man and Malcolm Hoenlein,
the executive directors of the
national and New York
groups.
The fact that the Russians
may have advanced a quota
is an admission by the So-
viets "that countless Jews
are eager to leave the
USSR," the statement said.
It added, "In principle, we
are strongly opposed• to
negotiations based on num-
bers rather than on human
rights. Our goal is total and
free emigration."
(According to reports
reaching London from Soviet
Jewish activists, the quota
promise given Kissinger, if
true, would not solve the
problem because it would be
filled by Jews from the Baf-
fle states, Georgia and Mol-
davia, who presently receive
visas while Jews in MoScow
and Leningrad would still be
unable to get them.)
The reports said that Kiss-
inger on June 6 discussed
the alleged Soviet offer with
Sens. Henry M. Jackson (D.
Wash.), Abraham Ribicoff
(D., Conn.) and Jabob K.
Javits (R. N.Y.).
Aides to those senators
said at the time that "some
movement" was indicated by
the Soviet government
through Kissinger toward re-
laxing its emigration policy
and that they had asked
Kissinger to discuss the
matter further with the So-
viets. They refused to discuss
"numbers."
Some senatorial sources
suggested that the reported
Soviet offer of 45,000 was de-
liberately leaked at this time
by the State Department
sources to create a situation
which would indicate to the
Soviet leaders that the Nixon
administration is doing its
utmost to kill the Jackson
Amendment.
A number of Soviet Jewish
activists have been given
permission to emigrate to Is-
rael before President Nixon
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arrives in Moscow, the Stu-
dent Struggle for Soviet
Jewry reported.
They include Boris Ruben-
shtein, 49, a Leningrad phy-
sicist; Itzhak Goitberg, 46,
Kishinev mathematics pro-
fessor; Alexander Galich, 55,
of Moscow, composer of sa-
tiric songs widely circulated
"underground" in Russia;
and Alexander Korotukov of
Kiev, a screenwriter.
In other developments, a
group of activists who staged
a demonstration in Red
Square were picked up by
the militia. In Kishinev, 25
Jews staging a vigil were
detained and later released.
In Kiev, Vladimir Kisyluk, a
night' watchman at a marina,
was beaten up at work.
Anna and Yuri Berkovsky
went on trial in Novosibirsk
Tuesday on charges of -pos-
session of weapons and cur-
rency speculation.
In Mexico City, the Soviet
Embassy for the first time,
accepted a petition on behalf
of a Jewish prisoner in the
USSR.
The petition, asking free-
dom for Sylva Zalmanson,
who is serving a 10-year sen-
tence, was brought to the
embassy on the fourth anni-
versary of the first Lenin-
grad hijack trial by a delega-
tion of Jewish women.
In New York, about 40 stu-
dents demonstrated for two
hours June 18 outside Lincoln
Center where the Moiseyev
Dance Company of Moscow
-
opened its current U. S. tour.
Hungarian Rabbinical
Seminary Awaits
Students From Russia
BUDAPEST (JTA) — Ten
Soviet Jews have been au-
thorized to come to Hungary
to study at the Budapest
Theological Seminary, ac-
cording to '-unconfirmed re-
ports here.
If the reports prove to be
true, the total - of 12 students
currently attending the sem-
inary would be raised to a
record high of 22 students.
The seminary now counts
two Soviets among its stu-
dents, Chaim Levitish, 20, of
Moscow, and Adolph Chae-
vitch, 20, of Birobidzhan.
Hungarian Jewish commu-
nity leader Geza Seifert told
the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency that while in New
York recently, he had been
informed of the news by an
American r a bb i, Arthur
Schneir of New York.
He said, however, that
Hungarian officials had not
yet confirmed the informa-
tion.
There is no indication as
to when the Soviet rabbinical
students might be expected
to arrive in Hungary, and
there is some speculation
that their final number may
be less than the announced
10.
Seifert said he expected to
find out more details on the
subject during a trip to Mos-
cow. During his Moscow
visit, the Jewish leader said
Call Goes Through: Rabbi's Wife
Telephones Soviet Jewish Famtly
"Operation Interference"
made a major breakthrough
last week as a Detroiter —
one of .a few persons through-
out the U. S. — reached a
Soviet Jew by telephone. A
Soviet campaign is under way
to disconnect the telephones
of its Jewish citizens.
Participating in the project
of the Detroit Action Com-
mittee .for Soviet Jewry,
Sarah Gorrelick, wife of
Rabbi Benjamin H. Gorre-
lick, rabbi emeritus of Cong.
Beth Achim, contacted Shaul
Goldblatt, father of Mikhail
Goldblatt, a Hebrew teacher
and mathematician.
"The experience shook me
to no end," she said. "It's
something I'll always re-
member."
Mrs. Gorrelick made the
call to Russia by using a
fictitious name, Mary Brown,
as the participants in the
project were instructed. After
a four-hour wait, the over-
seas operator came on the
line with the call.
"I almost forgot that I was
Mary Brown and not Sarah
Gorrelick,"_she said.
When the call was put
through, she identified her-
self in Yiddish. "I am Mary
Brown, a Jew from the
United States. I bring greet-
ings from all of the Jews in
the United States."
She asked for the younger
Goldblatt, but he was not at
home, so she spoke to his
father. Mrs. Gorrelick_ said
he "was eager to talk."
She conversed with the
elder Goldblatt for about 10-
12 minutes, during which he
kept repeating the - word
"please" as if making an
appeal.
She said he thanked her
several , times during their
talk and "didn't want to
hang up the phone." How-
ever, Mrs. Gorrelick said,
there was fear in his voice.
Near the end of the con-
versation, Rabbi Gorrelick
got on the line and blessed
Goldblatt in Hebrew and
Yiddish. Mrs. Gorrelick end-
ed the conversation with a
wish that this year he reach
Jerusalem.
Among the participants in
the project was Alan Rosen-
berg, chairman of the De-
troit Action Committee for
Soviet Jewry.
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