JDC to Observe
60th Anniversary
NEW YORK — The Joint
Distribution Committee will
observe its 60th anniversary
at its annual meeting Dec. 12
in New York City, announced
Edward Ginsberg, chairman.
The meeting will feature
reports on JDC's global
health and welfare operations
by officers and senior staff
members from New York
and abroad. More than 400
Jewish community leaders
from the United States and
Canada will elect officers for
the coming year and act .on
a proposed budget for 1975.
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Soviet Judge Drops Polsky Sentence,
Imposes Fine for Reckless Driving
LONDON (JTA)—A Mos-
cow judge declared Victor
Polsky guilty of reckless
driving but said a jail term
was not called for under the
circumstances and imposed
a nominal fine of 100 rubles
(about $140) on the 44-year-
old Jewish pysicist.
The verdict, read out last
Friday by Judge G. I. Solov-
yov, ended a trial which had
drawn international attention
because it was widely viewed
as an example of Soviet
harassment of Jews seeking
to emigrate to Israel.
Polsky, who was fired from
his job after applying for an
exit visa but continued to be
active in behalf of the Jew-
ish emigration movement,
was accused of injuring a
pedestrian while driving on
a Moscow street last March.
The victim, Tatyana Zhu-
kova, a 19-year-old law stu-
dent, deliberately threw her-
self in front of Polsky's car
in an apparent suicide at-
attempt after quarreling with
her parents. She is the daugh-
ter of an official of the inte-
rior ministry and Communist
Party. Those circumstances
led • to charges by Jewish
groups in Russia and abroad
that Polsky was accused on
trumped-up charges.
The suicide attempt was
ignored in the accusations
brought against Polsky on
which he faced a maximum
sentence of up to three years
imprisonment. But two doc-
tors who. treated the injured
girl testified in court that
she had told them she de-
liberately ran in front of
Polsky's car.
The trial was believed to
be the first since the Stalin
purge trials of the 1930s that
Western observers, including
lawyers, were admitted to the
courtroom.
The judge ruled that Pol-
sky was driving too fast and
on the wrong side of the street
but found mitigating circum-
stances in the fact that the
girl was jay-walking and that
Polsky had no pr e v o us
trouble with the police.
The trial lasted more than
13 hours and afterward the
Polskys said they are plan-
ning to renew their exit visa
applications.
Many Jewish activists—in-
cluding dissident nuclear
physicist Andrei D. Saharov
—and two American lawyers
also attended the trial.
Soviet Jewish Twins
Suffering from Abuses
in Russian Labor Camps
NEW YORK—The Student
Struggle for Soviet Jewry
issued an "urgent appeal" on
behalf of twin brothers suffer-
ing in Soviet labor camps,
whose plight was unknown
until recently.
The brothers, 22-year-old
Arkady and Leonid Veinman
of Kharkov, both violinists,
applied in 1972 to leave for
Israel without first receiving
an invitation. They did not
have their parents' permis-
sion, and their mother in-
duced the authorities to - try
to conscript them into the
army, though Leonid had a
medical exemption.
_A week later the twins were
cursed and attacked by a
provocateur. Police appeared,
released the provocateur and
arrested the brothers. Each
The SSSJ also reported
that five years of applica-
tions for exit visas have
proven fruitless for 73-year-
old retired scientist Dr. Lazar
Lieberman and his wife Me-
nuchah of Leningrad: Their
son told the SSSJ that the
KGB told his father, "You'll
never leave."
was sentenced to four years,
but are presently in different
labor camps.
Leonid is constantly sick,
cannot fill his work quota
and thus is penalized of
proper food and meetings
with his family.
Arkady was a model pris-
oner and received excellent
'testimonials from the labor
camp administration, and ap-
plied for a reduction in the
severity of his prison work.
To his surprise, he was -sud-
denly threatened with a_
charge of "anti-Soviet propa-
ganda" and told "we'll add
five years more to your
term."
The twins' parents have
since changed their minds,
have applied to go to Israel
and have asked for help in
their sons' case.
Kiev Jews' Hunger Strike
Marks 1st Anniversary
of Aleksandr Feldman Trial
NEW YORK (JTA)—Seven
Kiev Jews are_ staging a
strike to mark the first anni-
versary of the arrest and
trial of Aleksandr Feldman,
a Jewish engineer, now serv-
ing a 31/2 year sentence for
hooliganism, the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry
reported.
The demonstrators are
Esther and Yuli Tartakovsky,
Aleksandr Tsatskis, Kim
Friedman, Ilya Zlobinsky,
Mikhail Mager and Vladimir
Kislik.
Meanwhile, Stanley H. Low-
ell, chairman of the- NCSJ,
and Patricia Barnes, secre-
tary of the National Arts
Coalition for Soviet Jewry, is-
sued the following joint state-
ment:
-
Elderly Gardening
MONTREAL (JTA)—More
than 160 elderly Montreal
residents, most of them
Jews, were provided an op-
portunity this past summer
to raise more than 30 kinds
of fruits and vegetables on
a lot provided by the Jewish
General Hospital.
The plot had more than 80
individual gardens, each
manned by two elderly gar-
deners. The project was open
to individuals over 55 years
of all nationalities. About 80
per cent were Jews but there
were also Hindu, Chinese,
Italian and French partici-
pants.
"We strongly support the
action of two Soviet Jewish
film makers and their col-
leagues in staging a hunger
strike to focus attention on
the arbitrary denial of their
emigration visas. Their hun-
ger strike coincides with the
San Francisco Film Festival.
"We protest the projected
showing at that festival of
a Russian-made film. These
men who are asking to con-
tinue their art careers as
well as to be allowed to emi-
grate must be permitted to
leave immediately. The con-
tinual denial of emigration
visas to these, men, as well
as to the thousands of other
Soviet Jews who are waiting,
is contradictory to the spirit
of detente and cultural ex-
change."
Members of the board of
the National Arts Coalition
for Soviet Jewry include Clive
Barnes, Arthur Miller, John
V. Lindsay, Joel Grey, Theo-
dore Bike!, Paul Newman and
Beverly Sills.
Feliks Kamov-Kandel and
Mikhail Suslov, whose work
won second prize in the San
Francisco Film Festival last
year, declared they would
continue their strike for the
11 days of the festival.
They were joined by Yev-
geny Baras, a former re-
porter for the newspaper
SovetSkaya Kultura, who also
was denied a visa.
12—Friday, October 25, 1974 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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