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Alexan s er Roisman, 47, and his sons Leo 11 and Paul
13, are shown at their Seder table in Novosibirsk, Si-
beria with their newest "treasure"---a Hebrew Haggada
sent to them by Dr. Ira Hammerman of Bar-Ilan Univer-
sity in Israel. This will be the first Passover that the
Roisman family will have a proper Haggada. In the past,
Roisman put together his own Haggada, after having
taught himself Hebrew, utilizing a dictionary and a Bi-
ble over a period of five years.
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Sev- bor for trumped up bribery
eral hundred students and charges.
faculty members of Tel Aviv
The meeting resulted
and Bar Ilan Universities, from a demonstration Mon- .
. joined by many immigrants
day at the UN by wives of
from the Soviet Union, dem-
members of the NYMCSJ.
onstrated last week to pro- They offered to reimburse
test the pending trial on the Soviet Union for the
unspecified charges of two items that the 56-year-old
Jewish activists in Moscow physician was accused of ac-
— Mark Nashpitz and Boris cepting: 770 rubles, one
Tsitlionok.
chicken, two geese, 70 eggs
The
demonstration, and three barrels of apples.
In Washington, Sen.
which was attended by the
mothers of the two men, Henry- M. Jackson (D-
took place outside the Em- Wash.), indicated that there
bassy of Finland which han- is a long, hard road ahead
dles Soviet affairs in Israel. before Soviet Jews will be
A note was presented to a given the freedom to emi- -
Finnish representative urg- grate but promised, "we
ing his government to use won't let them down." Jack-
its good offices with the So- son made his comments
viet government to secure upon receiving the Gold
the release of Nashpitz and Medal of the Judaic? ..-
Tsitlionok or to publish the tage Society which ..;c1
charges against them and him "for his fight for the
assure them of a fair trial. freedom of Russian Jews."
A delegation of women
A copy of the note was sent
to the International Federa- froM committees of support
for Soviet Jews demon-
tion of Jurists.
Nashpitz and Tsitlionok strated at the European
were part of a group of Security Conference in Ge-
neva last week.
seven Jewish activists ar-
rested Feb. 24 while dem-
onstrating for exit visas
outside the Lenin Library
in Moscow. They alone
have been held for trial.
According to reports from
Moscow, .more than 100 So-
viet Jews in 14 cities signed
an appeal for their release.
In Washington, the B'nai
B'rith International Council
appealed to Soviet Ambas-
sador Anatoly F. Dobrynin
to intercede for the two Jew-
ish activists.
At the same time, repre-
sentatives of the New York
Medical Committee on So-
viet Jewry and the Greater'
New York Conference on
Soviet Jewry met with
World Health Organization
officials to discuss the - case
of Soviet Jewish endocrinol-
ogist Dr. Mikhail Stern. The
group asked W.H.O. to
plead Dr. Stern's case with
Soviet medical authorities
and to bring it before
United Nations humanitar-
ian groups.
The meeting marked the
first time that W.H.O. offi-
cials have met with any
Jewish representatives on
behalf of Dr. Stern. Dr.
Stern has been sentenced
to eight years at hard la-
The women, representa-
tives of committees from 12
European countries, are
campaigning for the right
for Soviet Jews to emi-
grate, the liberation of po-
litical_prisoners, the re-
spect of cultural rights,
and the end of anti-Semitic
activity. in the Soviet
Union.
In New York, Barnard
College officials have agreed
to replace•Pepsi Cola *ma-
chines on campus with an-
other soft drink. The Stu-
dent Struggle for Soviet
Jewry had campaigned for
four months to have the
school join the Pepsi boy-
cott.
Pepsico and its president
Donald Kendall have con-
cluded a large trade agree-
ment with the Soviet Union,
have refused to raise the
subject of Soviet Jews with
Russian officials, and Ken-
dall led the lobbying cam-
paign against the 'Jackson
Amendment to the U.S.-
Russian Trade Pact which
would have guaranteed
some minority emigration
from the Soviet Union.
The SSSJ said that, in
addition to Barnard, Bran-
deis, Columbia and Queens -
College are boycotting Pep-
sico.
Sapir Details Drop in Aliya,
Sees Increase From West
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Pinhas Sapir predicted that
there would be large-scale
aliya from the West, espe-
cially the United States, but
at the same time reported a
decline in immigration of
Soviet Jews.
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Sapir stated that emigra-
tion from the USSR had
declined in 1974 and the fig-
, ures for January and Febru-
ary of this year showed a
further drop. The reasons
for the drop, he noted, are
that Soviet policy has be-
come harsher toward pros-
pective emigrants and the
Soviet rejection of the trade
pact with the U.S.
Noting that 30 percent of
Soviet emigrants do not go
to Israel, Sapir warned that
if the figure becomes too
high the Soviet government
would no longer view it as a
"homecoming migration."
Jewish Agency Treasurer
Leon Dulzin disagreed wi"
Sapir. He said that althorn
immigration from the So-
viet Union has declined, it
will continue to be the main
source of immigrants to Is-
rael.
In New York, Mrs. Fay
Schenk, president of the
American Zionist Federa-
tion, called on the Ameri-
can Jewish community to
make the "promotion of
aliya the number one
item" on the agenda of
American Jewry.