32—Friday, July 12, 1974

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Criterion to Have
Outing at Beach

Turover Aid Has
Annual Installation

Criterion Club will hold an
outing and beach party Sun-
day leaving 11 a.m. from the
Oak Park Community Center
parking lot and proceeding
to the Pontiac Lake Recrea-
tion Area.
Plans are complete for the
club's sailing aboard the
steamer Columbia July 24 on
the annual City - of - Hope
moonlight cruise to Bob Lo.
For information, call Betty
Weinberg, 559-5175.

The Turover Aid Society
and Cong. Ezras Achim in-
stalled, Julius Honeyman as
president at a joint installa-
tion .at Cong. Mishkan Israel.

Charlie Cohen
Honored on 80th

Other officers are William
Keller, vice president; Sid-
ney • Weinberger and_ Bella
Honeyman, secretaries; Har-
ry M. Mandell, treasurer;
Sophie Pfeiffer, hospitaler;
and Abraham Rickman, ser-
geant-at-arms.

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Charlie Cohen, trustee of
the Rovner-Lachowitcher Aid
Society, was honored by the
organization on the occasion
of his 80th birthday. He and
his wife Ray were joined by
their children, grandchildren
and great-grandchildren, as
well as other relatives and
friends. Contributions in their
honor will be forwarded to
the 1974 Israel Emergency
Fund, according to President
Jacob Gubow. Master of
ceremonies was Joe Siegal,
assisted by Hy Krupp; Abe
Applebaum was dinner chair-
man; and Max Sosin was
entertainer.

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Stuart H. Brickner is seek-
ing election for the post of
Oakland County Circuit Court
judge. A graduate of the De-
troit College of Law, Brick-
ner is a member of the State
Bar of Michigan, Detroit Bar
Association, the Lawyer's
Reverence Service, American
Trial Lawyers and Michigan
Trial Lawyers associations)
and Tau Epsilon Rho legal
fraternity. He was admitted
to practice -in the United
States District Court, Eastern
District of Michigan.

Nathan Kaufman
Seeks Appeals Post

Circuit Court Judge Nath-
an Kaufman is seeking elec-
tion to the Michigan Court
of Appeals bench, First Dis-
trict, not re-election to the
Circuit Court, as was erron-
eously reported in last
week's paper. The 1st Dis-
trict covers Wayne, Wash-
tenaw and Livingston coun-
ties.

Backs Blanchard

State Representative Jo-
seph Forbes (D-Oak Park,
Southfield), former mayor of
Oak Park, endorsed James
J. Blanchard, Democratic
candidate for Congress in the
18th District.

A Promise Broken

3 Soviet Jews Languish in USSR
as Son Battles for Their Freedom

For two days, the young
Soviet oleh waited in Lod
Airport for the arrival of his
parents and aunt, issued exit
visas a few months earlier.
The wait was in vain.
As the Russian immigrants
debarked, and told him what
they knew of his family,
Gregory Kutchuk pieced to-
gether a story of Soviet-style
justice. Today he is in the
United States, trying to win
their freedom.
A native of Kishinev, in
Soviet Moldavia, 27-year-old
Kutchuk arrived in Israel 1 1/2
years ago. He learned Heb-
rew, married, entered Tel
Aviv University as a business
administration major. The
future looked particularly
bright when, in April, he
learned that he would be re-
united with his parents, Yic-
hil and Sarah Kutchuk, and
Sarah's_ sister, Anna Wax-
man.
The three were issued pass-
ports, their visas were in or-
der, and the trunks were
packed and delivered to the
railway station. At 11 a.m.
April 28 — three hours be-
fore their scheduled depar-
ture — there was a knock at
the door.
They would have to report
to the customs office for a
recheck of their baggage.
Once at the custom office,
they found their bags had
been opened and their pass-
ports and papers confiscated.
Yechil was arrested and the
women sent back to their
empty flat.
To this day, Gregory does
not know where his father is
— although he is told Yichil
is in a prison hospital, suf-
fering from heart and kidney
ailments.
There has been no explana,
tion of the Soviets' action,
and no charges have been
brought. The family has not
been permitted to hire a
lawyer.
The _two women are still
without identification papers,
making them, in effect, state-
less persons. Gregory's moth-
er has been questioned con-
stantly by the KGB, without
regard for her own severe
heart trouble.
Gregory has left his bride
behind in Israel to seek aid
in the United States. While
in Detroit, he is staying with
a cousin, Cantor Shabtai Ac-
kerman of Cong. Beth Abra-
ham-Hillel, himself a native
of Kishinev and well aware
of conditions in Soviet 15rison
camps.
Cantor Ackerman is doing
what he can for the Kut-
chuks, including making tele-
phone calls to the sisters (so
far fruitless) and urging con-
gressmen and government
officials to intervene. "On
July 3, we placed a call to
Kishinev and we asked if
Gregory could talk to his
mother, but no calls are go-
ing through. We're trying
any way we can to get them
out. Perhaps with family in
the United States, they'll be
permitted to come here."

ON WINGS
There's more hard work
In inflation the buying pow-
than luck in most success er of a dollar fails to keep up
stories.
with its good-buying power.

In his efforts, Cantor Ac-
kerman is being assisted by
the Detroit Committee for
Soviet Jewry. The group is
attempting to place calls and
sending funds to the now-
penniless sisters and encour-
aging the writing of letters to
American officials.
Mail also can be sent dir-
ectly to: Sarah Gregorovna

Feldman Kutchuk and to
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hinev, Moldavian SSR, USSR

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