ORT Plans Budget
GENEVA — World - wide
monetary upheaval and so-
cial and political uncertain-
ties have combined to make
budget forward planning an
exercise in educated "guesti-
mates," M. A. Braude, World
ORT Union director general
told members of the World
ORT Union Interim Commit-
tee who met to consider
ORT's financial program-
ming for 1975.
Confidence was expressed
that most ORT organizations
around the world would be
able to maintain their levels
-- of fund raising into the fore-
-seeable future.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, January 24, 1975-23
Soviet Jews Believe Gates Are Open
Emigre Troupe Here Feb. 11
NEW YORK (JTA) — Top
Jewish activists in the So-
viet Union reported that the
Soviet Union's rejection of
the 1972 trade agreement
with the United States does
not necessarily herald a
tougher Russian attitude to-
ward would-be• Jewish emi-
grants.
Some 15 of Moscow's most
prominent activists, who held
a conference in the apart-
ment of mathematician Alex-
ander Lerner to assess the
Kremlin's decision, expres-
sed optimism for the future
of their emigration move-
ment.
They told newsmen that
the government apparently
is continuing its policy of
allowing some Jews to leave
while refusing permission to
others.
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
group of Soviet Jewish set-
tlers in Israel, organized as
the "We Are Here" ensemble,
has arrived in the United
States for a cross-country
tour "to say thank you to all
the people . here who helped
in our struggle to emigrate."
The 100-member troupe will
perform in Detroit at 8 p.m.
Feb. 11 in Ford Auditorium.
Galia Druker, a director of
the troupe said, "It was the
purpose of our life to come to
Israel and at last we can say
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we are here." She expressed
the hope of the troupe that
"our visit may help those of
our people" still in Russia
who want to emigrate.
The troupe will present five
performances at Madison
Square Garden next month,
offering songs and folk danc-
es in a musical exploration
of the past 100 years of East
European Jewish life.
More than half of the pro-
ceeds of the tour will go to
the Association of New Emi-
grants from Russia to Israel,
according to Joe Bernes and
Elias Dishi, the American
producers of the show. Mrs.
Druker said that in the first
part of the program, "we re-
member the Jews still in Rus-
sia who can't get out and then
we added a theme of life in
Israel."
ter he applied to leave, but
refused induction on the
grounds Soviet authorities
would mark him as having
"secrets" and deny him exit
to Israel for several years
more.
KOPEL SPECTOR
The activists said they
would
continue
their
struggle
Kopel Spector of Cherno-
Tickets for the Detroit per-
formance are a v a il a ble to secure free emigration vitz applied with his family
through Cong. Bnai David, rights for those who wished in February 1972 and was
to leave the USSR.
granted a visa in July 1973.
557-8210.
battle by submitting a let-
ter of resignation, which So-
viet authorities refused ini-
tially to accept. They finally
did so and named Tandetni
to the post on Dec. 23.
Tandetni says he will con-
tinue with the present pro-
grams at the synagogue.
Matzo baking had been start-
ed at the synagogue and
matzos are currently being
produced at the rate of 2,000
pounds per day.
One of the current projects
is a yeshiva at the synago-
gue, where 10 students are
now studying. There had
been a yeshiva under direc-
tion of the late Chief Rabbi
Yehuda Leib Levin, which
had ended soon after Rabbi
Levin's death and which was
revived by Kaplun, Rabbi
Teitz said. Kaplun also re-
established a kosher dining
facility at the synagogue.
Rabbi Teitz said Tandetni
had informed him he intend-
ed to continue those two pro-
Yuli Tartakowsky, a Soviet After he had already shipped jects.
Jewish activist and his moth- ahead his luggage, local au-
er, Esther, have been given thorities told him the per- Hebrew U. Aids
permission to leave the So- mission was an "error." His
viet Union and are expected parents fruitlessly battled Pre-Schoolers
NEW YORK — Hebrew
to depart by Feb. 3.
for his release for 10 months,
University, working with the
Tartakowsky, who was one then left for Israel.
National Council of Jewish
of the main organizers of the
Spector was left without
Babi - Yar demonstrations, his internal passport, which Women's Research Institute
and his mother, have been was held by the police who for Innovation in Education
seeking exit visas for 21/2 unsuccessfully tried to dis- in Jerusalem, has developed
years.
suade him from seeking ali- an experimental program for
In London, Jewish sources ya. When this move failed, he teaching the disadvantaged
reported that holligans at- was tried for "parasitism" outside the school system.
The project, Home Instruc-
tacked the house of Dr. Mik- and sentenced to two years.
is
x
tion Program for Pre-School
hail Stern in Vinnitsa, USSR.
Police have not found the
It was also reported that Youngsters, consists of visits •
culprits.
a power struggle within the by a paraprofessional to the
Viktor Stern, Dr. Stern's congregation of the Moscow ho m e of a disadvantaged
elder son, said that he was synagogue has resulted in f a m i l y each week. The
permitted to see his father the resignation of the presi- mother is trained to teach
who told him, "In the condi- dent, Efraim Kaplun, and ap- the child b a sic learning
tions that I am being kept pointment by the government skills through a series of
I do not expect to survive of a new president, Mikhail programmed activities.
for more than three or four Yefromovich Tandetni.
T h e disadvantaged a r e
months."
Rabbi Pinhas Teitz, a mem- mostly Israeli born, but come
Two young Jews, Elie Jo- ber of the presidium of the from Oriental backgrounds.
seph, 19, of London, and Gi- Union of Orthodox Rabbis of Some are illiterate, so m e
lead 'Freund, 20, of New the United States and Cana- have had the compulsory
York, were expelled from the da, said a group of s congre eight years of Israeli educa-
Soviet Union last week fol- gants, led by Cantor Jacob tion, but rarely do any of
lowing a five-day visit in Kleinman, had been seeking them understand the im-
which they met with Soviet Kaplun's removal for several portance of talking to their
Jewish activists and went to months. Kaplun ended the children.
Soviet Ministry of Inter-
Ig
Florida Federation the
nal
Affairs to offer to serve ........Nommoossumsommimmim
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.
(JTA)—The St. Petersburg Dr. Stern's eight-year labor 1
Jewish Community Council camp sentence.
On Jan. 16, they went to the
and the Jewish Welfare Fund
Ministry
of Internal Affairs 1
of Clearwater have merged
to form the Jewish Federa- and demanded to see a senior
tion of Pinellas County, Inc. official to discuss with him
their offer to serve Dr.
Stern's sentence.
After arguing with officials
for three hours, KGB agents
bundled the two men into a 1
car and drove them into a
forest some 15 kilometers
outside Moscow. They threat-
ened them with prison sen-
of:
tences, but took them to Mos-
cow Airport on Friday night
and put them on a plane
bound for London.
Up To
Freund is a member of the
executive of American Betar.
Joseph is the leader of Brit-
ish Betar.
The Student Struggle for
The troupe was organized
by Shmuel Ben-Zvi, 27, a
dancer who settled in Israel
in 1972 and traveled around
Israel finding Soviet Jewish
migrants- who had performed
together in Russia, mostly in
Lithuania in two troupes or-
ganized in Vilna and Kovno
in 1956 "to show Jews they
have their own culture."
Mrs. Druker, 28, said many
R u s s i a n Jewish parents
brought their children to the
performances "so they could
learn to become Jews." The
singers and dancers were
skilled amateurs who rehears-
ed after work.
Mrs. Ben-Zvi was dismissed
from a dance school in Vilna
for applying to emigrate to
Israel. After she was arrest-
ed, she said, she and her
family unexpectedly obtained
exit visas in 1971.
Ben-Zvi said Soviet author-
ities allowed the two troupes
to perform "as propaganda
to show the world there is
Jewish life in Russia" but, he
added, they were forbidden
to sing songs in Hebrew.
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