Victor Polsky Arrives in Tel Aviv; Israeli, USSR Crises Mount informed by the KGB that from Page 1) Detroiters Begin Drive to Aid Leviev "In (Continued our view, this is solely Soviet emigration policies . TEL AVIV (JTA)—Jewish physicist Victor Polsky ar- rived in Tel Aviv Wednesday completing a three-year struggle to leave the Soviet Union. Polsky, his wife, Yelena and their daughter, Marina, 16, were greeted at Ben- Gurion Airport by hundreds of Russian immigrants. Polsky told newsmen that he and his fellow activists still in the Soviet Union do not believe in quiet diplom- acy. He said they demand a worldwide outcry in support of Jews who are imprisoned for wanting to go to Israel and for the right of all Jews to emigrate to Israel. Before leaving Moscow Polsky was not allowed to say goodby to the many friends who came to see him off at the airport. A thorough search was made of his lug- gage there. In Detroit, the Detroit Committee for Soviet Jewry is urging Detroiters to send cables and night letters urg- ing that the death sentence imposed upon Mikhail Leviev, a Bukharan Jew, be corn- muted. Vitoraya Tverskaya Yam- Leviev, who applied to skaya 38/32, Ideviev, Sofia. leave the Soviet Union in The committee suggests let- 1971 was immediately fired ters be registered with return from his job as a manager receipt requested. of a state-owned store in- Meanwhile, Lewis S. Gross- Bukhara upon applying for man, president of the Jewish the visa. He later moved to Community Council of Metro- Moscow. politan Detroit, appealed to In 1972, he, his wife Sofia, President Nikolai Podgorny and her parents received per- of the Soviet Union to com- mission to leave the Soviet mute the death sentence im- Union, but while preparing posed upon Leviev. Grossman's telegram to to leave the Soviet secret police arrested Leviev on a President Podgorny read in charge of "economic crimes." •part: Mrs. Leviev's parents left "On behalf of our 310 af- the Soviet Union while she filiated organizations, I re- stayed behind and issued an spectfully appeal to you to appeal for help. commute the death sentence The Detroit Committee imposed upon Mikhail Leviev. urges cables asking for the "Such a gesture will go far commutation of Leviev's to promote the spirit of de- death sentence be sent to tente and good will between Roman Prudenko, Procurator our two nations." General, 15A Pushkinskaya In addition, the Jewish St., Moscow, USSR. The com- Community Council has mittee asks that mailgrams asked the presidents and be sent to President Ford, members of its affiliates to urging him to contact Soviet send letters of protest to officials to intervene on be- Soviet Procurator General half of Leviev. Roman Rudenko; Ambassa- Persons wishing to express dor to the U.S. Anatoly Do their support to Sofia Leviev brynin and UN Ambassador may write USSR, Moscow, Yakov Malik. NRP Bank Scandal Figure Linked to New York Nursing Home Fraud TEL AVIV (JTA) — The National Religious Party was reported in turmoil over charges of fraud and other illegal activities levelled against the network of nurs- ing and old aged homes in New York owned by Rabbi Bernard Bergman, a leader of the world and American Mizrachi organizations. Rabbi Bergman is Swiss- Jewish financier Tibor Ro- senbaum whose financial troubles involving millions of dollars in investments by leading Israeli firms has cre- ated a major scandal here. The NRP leadership met in stormy sessions during the weekend. The party's young guard has demanded Bergman's suspension from the Mizrachi presidium pend- ing the outsome of joint fed- eral-state hearings into the charges which are scheduled to open in New York City on Jan. 21. Rabbi Bergman came to Israel earlier this month after the New York State Temporary Commission on Living Costs opened an in- vestigation of his nursing homes amid allegations of fraud in the use of Medicaid funds which _reportedly were contributed to synagogues and charities, to key Repub- lican and Democratic offici- als and to the Mizrachi or- ganization. Bergman left Israel last week and reportedly is in Vienna. Some sources said he was returning to the -U.S. for the Jan. 21 hearings. Rabbi Bergman, a former president of the religious Zionist Organization of Amer- ica, heads the Mizrachi's re- ligious education committee in the U.S. He is also one of three members of the world Mizrachi presidium which is closely connected to the NRP. Rabbi Bergman reportedly became a multi-millionnaire through the operations of nursing homes in New York City and state and in New Jersey which receive large sums of money from Medic- aid. The alleged misuse of these funds and deplorable condi- tions in many of the homes were exposed in recent ar- ticles in the New York Times and the Village Voice. The first reaction of Orthodox circles here and in New York was to denounce the Times reporter, John Hess, as anti-Semitic. Last week two major American Jewish organiza- tions—the American Jewish Congress and the Federation of Reform Synagogues— urged New York Governor- elect Hugh Carey to launch a statewide probe of the Bergman homes. Subsequently, a subcom- mittee of the Senate special committee on the aging, an- nounced that it was joining the investigation in New York City. Sen..Frank Moss (D-Utah) chairman of the subcommittee, issued sub- - poenas calling on 35 nursing home operators and suppli- ers to produce records for the hearing. Rabbi Bergman and his wife were among those for whom subpoenas were is- sued. Meanwhile, the State Temporary Commission on "Living Costs, headed by State Assemblyman Andrew Stein, has started criminal contempt proceedings against Bergman for failing to re- spond to its subpoenas. Iran Denies War Threat LONDON ( J T A ) — The The Iranian Embassy in The Hague denied that the Shah of Iran has threatened to join the Arab states against Israel if a new Middle East war breaks out. A statement issued by the embassy said news media reports from Beirut quoting the Shah to that effect were a gross distortion.. The statement explained, "What His Majesty had said was that the choice between war and peace was before Israel and "the sympathies .of Iran are with the Pales- tinians. But His Majesty did not say that Iran would take part in a war against Israel," the embassy statement said. The Shah's remarks were contained in an interview with the "Middle East Eco- nomic Survey," an Arabic language periodical published in Beirut. The Shah was quoted as saying, in connection with his forthcoming visit to Cairo to meet with President Anwar Sadat that the Egyptian lead- er was working toward a peaceful settlement but "re- grettably, the Israelis have not responded to him." He blamed the United States for failing to press Israel to withdraw from Arab territories. He said, "We support the Arab view because the Arabs became a victim of foreign occupation." The statement from the Iranian Embassy in The Hague said, "There is no change in the policy of Iran regarding the Middle East. Iran firmly supports the Security Council Resolu- tion 242 which demands the evacuation of all occupied territories by Israel." THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 16—Friday, Dec. 27, 1974 a matter for free negotiation between the parties directly concerned." From Soviet Russia comes the report that the death sen- tence imposed on Mikhail Leviev in Moscow a week ago has been stayed tempo- rarily pending a re-opening of his case, Jewish sources in the Soviet Union reported Thursday. Leviev, who once managed a large government store in Moscow, was convicted of alleged "economic crimes." He had applied for a visa to emigrate to Israel. The sources said that Leviev's wife, Sophia, received the reply from President Nikolai Podgorny on the Supreme Soviet to whom she had ap- pealed for clemency for her husband, the JTA reported. Podgorny wrote that in re- case would be reopened and a sponse to her appeal, Leviev's new investigation ordered. Jewish sources in the Sov- iet Union also reported that several Jewish activists were Pope Wants International Jerusalem will not be influenced by for- eign pressures. They said the activists were told that the USSR had no intention of yielding to foreign pressure thz emigra- tion and that "in the future, as in the past, all decisions concerning emigration will -be made by the USSR with- out any consideration of pres- sures from abroad." The activists were not warned this time to keep the content of the interview se- cret, indicating that the KGB wanted' them to convey its message to all Jews who Afraid of the High Cost i Of TV Repairs?? all Ron 543-03 I 4 For experienced reliable service at reasonable prices. No charge for in home esti mates. We Make Our Own Glasses 'I • • NEW YORK — Pope Paul VI expressed the hope that Jerusalem will "become the crossroads of a fraternal en- counter" in a speech Mon- day to the Sacred College of Cardinals in Rome. 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