Golda Sought
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Jews Slain Under Stalin NJ School Aid
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JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Former Premier Golda Meir
revealed here that she had
gone to "a certain country"
and held 14 hours of talks
with its president, premier
and foreign minister, who
told her they were confident
that President Anwar Sadat
sought an Egypt-Israel meet-
ing at the top level.
She agreed at once, saying
this was the happiest news
she had heard in years. Tech-
nical arrangements were
made for further communi-
cations to set the meeting.
Her hosts said a firm answer
should come through from
Cairn within 10 days, but
nothing further was ever
heard.
Mrs. Meir told the story
at a luncheon in her honor
by the Knesset Foreign Af-
fairs and Defense Committee.
Observers immediately con-
cluded that t h e "certain
country" was Romania, which
Mrs. Meir visited on a sud-
den invitation from President
Nicolae Ceacescu in May
1972.
At the luncheon, former
Foreign Minister Abba Eban
also stressed that the pre-
vious government had under-
taken many and varied peace
initiatives.
When the time came for
these to be publicized, he
said, Israeli citizens would
be surprised by their num-
ber and their variety and
they would convincingly dis-
prove accusations that the
previous government was not
zealous enough in its peace
efforts.
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)
— Some 200 persons,includ-
ing Jewish labor leaders,
stood at the Isaiah Wall
across the street from the
United Nations Monday, in a
memorial tribute to 24 Soviet
Jewish writers and commun-
ity leaders who were killed
by orders from Stalin 22
years ago.
The memorial ceremony,
sponsored by the Workmen's
Circle, also protested the
present plight of Soviet Jew-
ry and appealed to the UN
to help rescue those Jews
who are imprisoned and ha-
rassed in the USSR.
"When the question of
Jewish rights is raised in the
halls of the UN, voices be-
come mute," Harold Ostroff,
Workmen's Circle president,
declared. "Whether it is on
the subject of El Fatah, ter-
rorists who shoot with Soviet
weapons, or on Soviet Jews
who are beaten with Soviet
truncheons, the whispers are
invariably aimed at sweep-
ing justice under the prover-
bial rug."
Bronx Borough President
Robert Abrams and Stanley
Lowell, chairman of the Na-
tional Conference on Soviet
Jewry, urged a continuation
of efforts on behalf of Soviet
Jews.
A similar memorial meet-
ing was held opposite the So-
viet Embassy in Washington.
About 100 persons who attend
the regular daily vigil fOr
Soviet Jews participated in
reciting the kadish for Stal-
in's victims. The participants
include members of the Con-
cerned Artists for Soviet
Jewry, and Herman Taube,
a journalist , with the New
York Jewish Daily Forward.
The memorial was arrang-
ed by the Jewish Community
Council of Greater Washing-
ton which also appealed for
support for Dr. Viktor Pol-
sky, a Soviet Jewish activist
who went on trial in Moscow
Thursday for alleged reck-
less driving.
Meanwhile, it was reported
in New York that according
to Jewish sources in the So-
viet Union and confirmed by
the NCSJ, some Soviet Jews
who were dismissed when
they first applied to emigrate
to Israel have been offered
their old jobs on condition
that they withdraw their ap-
plications for visas to Igrael.
It was reported, however,
that many of them would be
getting only half of their pre-
vious salaries.
One of the most prominent
among the group was 26-
year-old astrophysicist Ev-
geny Levich, who was recent-
ly released following one
year of imprisonment in a
military installation.
In what appeared to be a
conciliatory gesture, Soviet
authorities did not require
that he renounce his intention
of emigrating.
Observers pointed out that
the gesture may hold some
danger for the young Levich
in that the sensitive nature
of his work might be used to
prevent his departure at a
later date.
The NCSJ also announced
the formation of a National
Lawyers Committee for So-
viet Jews, a panel of attor-
neys, jurists and law enforce-
Seminary to Hold
Talks in Canada
NEW YORK — Some 200
teen-agers from the U.S. and
Canada will attend a Torah
leadership seminar at Camp
Wooden Acres, Montreal,
Aug. 22-27, under the spon-
sorship sf the youth bureau
of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan
Theological Seminary, an af-
filiate of Yeshiva University.
Michigan participants will
come from Detroit, Mt.
Clemens and Oak Park.
Now in its 20th year, the
seminar offers basic instruc-
tion in Judaism, leadership
and group skills in a "study-
play" atmosphere to a select
group of youngsters between
age 14 and 18 who are seek-
ing to better their under-
standing of Jewish knowledge
while acquiring leadership
training.
Programs include sessions
on responses to the Holo-
caust, disintegration of Jew-
ish neighborhoods, Arab-Is-
raeli relations, problems aris-
ing from medical technology
and euthanasia.
Seminar programs function
on several educational levels
to suit the varied back-
grounds of the participants.
There will be sessions geared
to the cultural interests of
Sephardic students. Also at-
tending will be teen-agers
from Arab lands and the
Soviet Union.
NO PROBLEM
The man who always does
the honorable thing never
has to worry about justifica-
tion.
10—Friday, August 16,1974
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
ment officials that will mon-
itor Soviet legal activities as
the rights of Jews in the
USSR.
Panovs Demonstrate
Outside Soviet Embassy
On Behalf of Polsky
LONDON (JTA) — Valery
and Galina Panov demon-
strated outside of the Soviet
Embassy Monday in behalf
of their "very old and dear
friend" Dr. Viktor Polsky,
the Soviet-Jewish scientist
and activist facing prosecu-
tion in Moscow on trumped-
up charges of reckless driv-
ing.
The two former members
of Leningrad's Kirov Ballet,
who won their freedom to
emigrate from Russia earlier
this year, • joined placard-
carrying members of the Wo-
men's Campaign for Soviet
Jewry who were marching
outside the embassy despite
a driving rain storm.
The Panovs, who immi-
grated to Israel, are visiting
London to express thanks to
the many Britishers who sup-
ported their two-year strug-
gle for exit visas. They will
resume their ballet careers
at the Mann Auditorium in
Tel Aviv Nov. 2 and will per-
form later in London.
Panov told reporters that
as soon as he learned of the
demonstration for Polsky he
and Galina decided to join it.
Asked if he would consider
entering the embassy to pre-
sent a personal plea, he re-
plied, "That is a very com-
plicated question. Unexpect-
ed and dramatic things can
happen in Soviet embassies."
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Appeal to UN to Aid
Israel MIA Families
NEW YORK — Communal
and civic organizations
throughout the United States
have been called upon to
support the national drive to
obtain a minimum of 100,000
signatures on a petition to the
United Nations to censure
Egypt and Syria for refusing
permission to Israel to search
for bodies of those missing-
in-action.
The campaign is being
conducted by the American
Action Committee For the
Release of Israel POWs on
behalf of the parent organi-
zation in Israel whose sons
have been listed as missing-
in-action.
Rabbi Rubin R. Dobin, na-
tional chairman of the Amer-
ican committee, stated that
the petitions will be ad-
dressed to Dr. Kurt Wald-
heim at the United Nations.
For petition forms, send a
stamped, self-addressed en-
velope to Rabbi Dobin, POB
11, ' Lawrence, New York
11559.
Sapir Visits Lima,
for Speaking Tour
LIMA (JTA) — Pinhas
Sapir, chairman of the Jew-
ish Agency and World Zion-
ist Organization Executives,
visited Lima recently for
two days.
Sapir addressed the Jew-
ish community congress . tak-
ing place here and also spoke
to the yishuv' at large and
visited the Jewish school,
"Leon Pinelo," which enrolls
95 per cent of the commun-
ity's school children.
London Bnai Brith
Gives Scholarships
Jewish Pupils
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
day school expert said that
the new school aid law signed
by Gov. Brendan Byrne of
New Jersey will benefit an
estimated 3,600 Jewish day
school pupils in that state
through increased state bene-
fits for transportation and
textbook allowances.
The new law replaces one
rejected last June as uncon-
stitutional by the U.S. Sup-
reme Court which provided
reimbursement to parents of
children in non-public schools
for money spent for secular
"non - ideological textbooks,
instructional materials and
supplies," as well as state
funds to nonpublic schools to
buy "secular supplies, equip-
ment and auxiliary services."
The new law provides an
increase in state subsidies
for transportation for public
and private pupils from $150
to $200 annually per pupil
and authorization to local and
educational districts to loan
textbooks, at the rate of $15
worth of such books per year
per pupil for the first three
years and $10 worth per year
per pupil after three years.
The new law provides such
aid for pupils from kinder-
garten through 12th grade.
The estimate on the num-
ber of New Jersey Jewish
day school pupils benefiting
from the new law, effective
in September was made by
Rabbi Bernard Goldenberg,
director of school organiza-
tion for Torah Umesobah;
National Society for Herew
Day Schools. He said there
were 17 Torah Umesorah-af-
filiated elementary schools
in New Jersey and seven
high schools with a total en-
rollment of 2,9DO students.
Rabbi Goldenberg said
there were other Jewish day
schools in New Jersey, un-
affiliated with either Torah
Umesorah or the Solomon
Schechter movement, to ac-
count for the total figure.
LONDON—The scholarship
fund of the Bnai Brith Leo
Baeck Lodge here has re-
newed grants to 22 Jewish
students and allocated new
grants to eight students for
1974-75. -
The 30 students benefiting
from the allocation include
17 from Israel, three from
Iran and two from Czecho-
slovak origin.
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