18—Friday, January 3, 1975 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Dr. Stern Sentenced to 8 Years in 'Strengthened' Labor Camp Hasidic Happening Due Tuesday The seventh annual Hasidic Happening concert will be heard 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Ford Auditorium. Nathan P. Rossen will be the honoree. Chairmen are David Herme- lin and Harold Beznos. Opening the program will be the internationally famed baritone, Sidor Belarsky. Bel- arsky is a close friend of the honoree. The hasidic dancers also are featured. Highlighting the evening Members of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry demonstrated recently at a performance of the Soviet Georgian Dance Company in New ,York's Carnegie Hall. They demanded the release of the Goldstein family and other Tibllisi Jewish activists, and protested the trial of noted endocrinologist, Dr. Mikhail Stern, right, in Vinnitsa, the Ukraine. Dr. Stern was given an eight-year sentence Monday for accepting bribes from patients, even though seven of eight prosecution witnesses repudiated their testimonies. NEW YORK (JTA) — Dr. Mikhail Stern, the Vinnitsa Jewish doctor, was sentenced Monday by a Ukrainian court to an eight-year term in a labor camp on charges of bribe-taking and swindl- ing, it was reported here from Jewish sources in Mos- cow. The sources also reported that David Axelbant, Dr. ? s a 6 6 For Custom Drapery Cleaning, Call DRAPERY CLEANERS "All That The Name Implies" We Also Wash & Finish Drip Dry Curtains Professionally WE DO ALL THE WORK - REMOVE AND INSTALL 891-1818- Suburban Call Collect Reverse Charges Stern's defense attorney, planed to appeal the sentence which is to be served in a "strengthened" regime camp, the third most severe of four categories. The prosecution had demanded a nine-year sentence. Dr. Stern, 56, said, at his sentencing, that he had a completely clear conscience, the Jewish sources said. The trial began on Dec. 11, about seven months after Dr. Stern was arrested. Jewish sources said at the time of the arrest that the case was linked to applications of Dr. Stern's sons to emigrate to Israel with Dr. Stern's own stated wish to leave Russia. The sentence also included confiscation of all of Dr. Stern's possessions. Dr. Stern, who was head of the polyclinic department of the V i n n i t s a Endocrinological Dispensary, was accused of accepting favors in return for declaring persons unfit for military service, selling medicines above cost and other alleged crimes. He had pleaded not guilty to all charges. It was recalled here that KGB officials called in .a number of Jewish activists to Moscow on Dec. 23. The ac- tivists were told that the USSR had no intention of yielding to foreign pressures on emigration. , The sentence on Dr. Stern was seen here as a demon- stration of that Soviet posi- tion following formal Soviet denial of any "linkage" be- tween U. S. trade and Soviet emigration practices. Rabbi Frain to Give Predictions for '75 FolloWing a tradition now 50 years old, Rabbi Leon Fram of Temple Israel, will devote his sermon 8:30 p.m. today, the first Friday night of the new year, to a fore- cast of the events of 1975. The subject of his New Year sermon will be "1975— Threat or Promise?" Among his predictions for the coming year are: that the United Nations will go out of existence, to be re- placed by a new organiza- tion more capable of secur- ing the peace of the world and that the oil exporting countries will over-play their hand and drive the desperate countries of Europe into a confrontation with the oil producers. Another feature of the serv- ice will be the appearance of a female cantor, Miss Gail Posner, who will substitute for Cantor Harold Orbach, who is on vacation. Miss Pos- ner, a second-year student of the school of sacred music of the Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion, will chant the cantorial music. Members of the congrega- tion will participate in the rendering of the Sabbath Eve liturgy. British Crisis Caused by Photo? WASHINGTON—A London Times photo of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and former Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir in a friendly bear-hug may have been the cause of Britain's currency crisis. Financiers close to Saudi Arabia cite King Faisal's out- rage over the photograph as the impetus for his declara- tion that future oil payments must be exclusively in dol- lars, which caused the pound to plummet to a new low. Some British bankers said the report is "far-fetched," but they had no other expla- nation for Faisal's sudden move. will be a fusion of the old and the new in Hasidism — the Morristown Moving Spirits group, led by Avrohom Le- vine on the accordion and drummer Dovid Lazerson. Schneur Zalinan Polter, the 4-year-old "cantor," will of- fer a selection of hasidic and cantorial pieces, accomp- anied by his brothers. Then a tableau depicting "Jewish Womanhood—the Light of the Home" will be presented. After the intermission, Can- tor Avrohom Pressman will render Russian and Israeli hasidic numbers. The cantor, a Russian emigrant, is pursu- ing musical and Judaic stu- dies at the Lubavitcher Yesh- iva in New York. Marvin Weinberger, a vio- linist at University of Mich- igan's music school, will ap- pear as "Moshe and His Ha- sidic Violin." Accompanied by Steven Glaser, pianist, Moshe will play "Shamil's Nigun", a melody which tells an hasidic story, "Hopp Cos- sack", a Russian Kazatzka dance melody, and other pop- ular Jewish songs. On Wednesday night, the concert will be in Flint, un- der the auspices of the Flint Jewish Community Council; on Thursday the Michigan State University Jewish Com- munity will be host to the concert 7:30 p.m. in the Uni- versity's engineering hall. Final concert will be in Ann- Arbor, honoring Osias Zwerd- ling, 3 p.m. Jan. 12 in the Lydia Mendlesohn Theater. For information, call Rab- bi Berel Shemtov, 398-2611. • -.‘G • e l The Ultimate in Catering catering ID\J With A Yiddish Tamm 4 For ALL Occasions 4 4 4 Now Taking Orders for the Holidays Office and Home Parties 543-3585 Hall Available 541-7940 WHEN YOU GIVE MORE YOU SELL MORE! EVERGREEN presents T.V. 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