Soviet Jewry
Bike-A-Thon
This Sunday
Soviet ews Appeal to Jackson
The Bike-A-Thon to raise
funds for Soviet Jewry, ori-
ginally scheduled for last
Sunday, will_ start 1:30 p.m.
Sunday from Cong. Shaarey
Zedek in Southfield.'
Last Sunday's event was
postponed because of rain,
but 50 persons heard Soviet
emigre Prof. David Azbel say
that people should not be-
come complacent because of
the impending U.S,-Russian
trade package and Jackson
Amendment guarantees for
emigration.
Sunday's 12-mile bike ride
through Southfield, escorted
by police, also will feature a
3 p,m. rally. Organizers will
show slides, a film, and have
local speakers,- in addition to
a tape recording of a portion
Of Prof. Azbel's speech.
Dr. Azbel, a Russian chem-
ist now on the faculty of the
Univer s it y of Minnesota,
urged the audience to con-
tinue its pressure on the
Soviet government for reli-
gious freedom and the right
to emigrate.
Show of Nazi Art
Comes Under Fire
LONDON — The Frankfurt
Art Association's exhibition
"Art in the Third Reich" has
brought the association under
heavy criticism.
The exhibition displays
large statues of Aryan work-
ers, pastel idealizations of
German womanhood and
glorifications of soldiers and
workers described by anti-
Fascist commentaries, and
takes up three floors of the
association's exhibit hall.
Youngsters visiting the ex-
hibit reportedly were sneer-
ing at what they saw. The
association received so much
criticism that - it set up a
graffiti board for comments
in the entrance hall.
The association reported
that the Major aim of the
commentaries was to show
that Nazi art was really prop-
aganda. "We wanted to coun-
ter the effects of all the
books, magazine articles and
movie that have been coming
out recently about the Hitler
period," an aide said
Home Jewish Studies
LOS ANGELES (JTA)
The new Academy for Jew-
ish Studies Without Walls,
which offers home study
courses in Jewish history,
tradition and culture, -has ex-
panded its operations to in-
clude Canada. The National
Executive Council of the
American Jewish Conimittee
started the academy this year
-in cooperation with the Uni-
versity of Haifa.
The academy has a current
enrollment of more than 300
students from ' 30 states and
a few foreign countries. Hai-
fa University grants scholas-
tic credit for each completed
course, which requires a
•
year.
Soviet Jews Seek
Christians for Aid
Breadwinner
NEW YORK (ZINS) — Ac-
cording to a report in the
Allgemeiner Journal, 10 new-
ly-arrived Soviet Jewish
families converted to Chris-
tianity and were seen in a
New York hotel prominently
displaying crucifixes.
The families - said they
were disillusioned, having
failed to find either a warm
welcome, a job, or suitable
housing in this country. They
turned to Christian mission-
aries, Who provided comforts
in exchange for conversion.
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Classifieds Get Quick Results
Journalist • Yevgeny Baras, left, screenwriter Felix
Kamov-Kandel and cameraman Mikhail. Suslov have just
completed a two-week hunger strike to dramatize the con-
tinued denial of visas despite a Jackson Amendment agree-
ment. The trio declared they will fast again if still denied
exit.
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Philadelphia in cooperation
NEW. YORK—One hundred with the National Conference
Soviet Jews have signed an on .Soviet Jewry.
open- letter to Sen. Henry
Esther Polan, JCRC presi-
Jackson, charging that So- dent, and Joseph Smukler,
viet authorities are using the chairman of JCRC's com-
military draft against- young. mittee of 1,000 for Soviet
Jews who have applied to go Jewry, said in a joint state-
to Israel.
ment, "The Panovs perform-
The letter, released to ance at the Spectrum is -a
Western newsmen, asked the testimony to the success of
Washington senator to use worldwide protest on behalf
his influence to stop what of Soviet • Jews denied their
they termed persecution of right to emigrate to Israel."
young 'Jews and to help them
to go to Israel.
The signers referred to the Israelis 'See Alps--
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Is-
Jackson Amendment to the
pending U:S.-Soviet trade raelis constituted the third
package under which the largest tourist group in Switz-
Kremlin said it would stop erland this past summer, ex-
persecuting Jews who have ceeded only by travelers from
the U.S. and West Germany,
applied to emigrate.
Meanwhile, former Kirov who occupy first and second
ballet star Valery Panov and rank respectively. Following
his ballerina/ wife, Galina, Israel were Italy, United
who endifred harassment, Kingdom, Spain and France.
persecution and imprisonment
during a two-year struggle to
To Put 1t .Mildly, Business
leave the Soviet Union, will
Has Been Very,Slow, So . .
perform together for the first
Here noes Our
time in the West Dec. 10, at
the Spectruth in Philadel- "END-OF-SEASON"
phia.
The benefit performance
for Soviet --Jewry . is being
Don't Miss It!
sponsored by the Spectrum
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and the Jewish Community
.NORTHLAND
Relations Council of Greater
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