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The Detroit Jewish News, 1975-06-27

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

20 Friday, June 27, 1975

Soviets Free 3 Sentenced in Leningrad Trials

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(Continued from Page 1)
Secretary of State Henry
A. Kissinger, the Union of
Councils of Soviet Jews re-
ported. Buchan promised
to take up the matter with
the President. Dr. Stern, a
55-year-old endocrinolo-
gist from Vinnitsa,
Ukraine, was tried and
convicted for alleged mal-
practice after his sons ap-
plied for exit visas from
the Soviet Union.

In Atlantic City, N.J., the
American Physicians Fel-
lowship urged freedom for
Dr. Stern in resolutions
adopted at the closing ses-
sion of its four-day meeting
here.
The APF, an organization
of -8,700 dues-paying Jewish
physicians of the United
States and- Canada, held its
meeting as part of the
American Medical Associa-
tion's annual convention.
Its resolution on Dr.
Stern charged that his trial
and imprisonment was "an
act of persecution and vind-
ictiveness following Dr.
Stern's approval of the Is-
raeli immigration of his two
sons."

The resolution appealed
"to the members of the
Medical Workers Union in
Russia and the Council of
the USSR Scientific Medi-
cal Society . . . to mobilize
and exert their influence
so that the Soviet authori-
ties will understand that
fundamental justice and
concern for human rights
demand the freedom of Dr.
Stern."

Meanwhile, Soviet Jewish
wives and mothers, now liv-
ing in Israel, have appealed
to delegates at the World
Conference of the Interna-
tional Women's Year to in-
tervene on behalf of their
husbands and sons who
have been refused permis-
sion to emigrate from the
Soviet Union, resulting in
divided families.
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Lowell, chairman of the
NCSJ, his agency has
learned that two separate
appeals were sent to the de-
legates of the conference.
One appeal is from the
wives, mothers and sisters
of Soviet Jews now in pris-
ons and labor camps in the
Soviet Union. A second ap-
peal came from wives,
mothers and children of
Soviet Jewish men repeat-
edly refused permission to
leave despite promises from
Soviet authorities.
Deborah Samoilovich, for-
mer chief of the photo-
graphic laboratory of the
Kurchatov Atomic Energy
Institute and now a refu-
senik, has appealed to inter-
national women's organiza-
tions to assist her in
obtaining a visa for Israel,
where she hopes to join her
only son. Refused on
grgunds of "national secu-
rity," Mrs. Samoilovich dis-
claims any knowledge of
military secrets and has
suffered intense KGB har-
assment.

Mrs. Samoilovich is the
aunt of Boris Tsitlionok,
who was recently sent-
enced, along with Mark
Nashpitz, to five years in
exile.

The NCSJ, meanwhile,
has released two open let-
ters to the International
Pen Club which call for help
from the international com-
munity of writers to counter
Soviet efforts to destroy the
magazine, Jews in the
USSR.
The first letter, which is
signed by Ilya Rubin and
Rafail Nudelman, docu-
ments the harassment by
the KGB of four Soviet Jews
connected with the publica-
tion. They believe a major
trial is in preparation
against those who contrib-
uted to the magazine.
A second letter was
signed by 10 prominent So-
viet Jewish activists.

Soviet officials have
been conducting a cam-
paign both against the
magazine and contributors
to it. Even though the
magazine is dedicated to
one theme — the spiritual
and cultural life of the
Jewish people in the USSR
— the KGB has charged
that it is "anti-Soviet
propaganda" and that
charges would be brought
against Soviet Jews who
contributed to it.

In a related development,
the Montreal Committee for
Soviet Jewry and the Mon-
treal Women's Group of
"35's," leaders of the spon-
soring groups and promi-
nent Canadians flew from
Montreal to Ottawa re-
cently, where they assem-
bled in front of the Soviet
Embassy.
Members of the Canadian
Parliament, religious lead-
ers and a representative of
Amnesty International
joined the group at the em-
bassy, where the Soviet Am-
bassador formally received
the parliamentarians. The
Ambassador invited the
MPs to visit the Soviet
Union and indicated his
willingness to meet the par-
liame,,ntary committee on

Soviet Jewry. Members of
the committee publicly an-
nounced, each one individu-
ally, the "adoption" of one of
the prisoners of conscience.
In a petition handed to
the Soviet Ambassador, the
Flight to Freedom group
"earnestly requested and
beseeched the government
of the Soviet Union to im-
mediately release, or, at
least ameliorate, the prison
conditions of the Soviet Jew-
ish Prisoners of Consci-
ence."

In Los Angeles more
than 1,000 demonstrators
shared their concern for
the plight of Soviet Jewry
when they assembled here
in front of the Shrine Au-

* *

ditorium, on the opening of
the Bolshoi Ballet's Los
Angeles appearance.

The demonstrators car-
ried banners contrasting the
acceptance of cultural ex-
change with the USSR with
the concern for the Soviet
Union's cultural repression
of Jews. The rally was or-
ganized under the chair-
manship of Dr. Robert Ger-
ber, and coordinated by the
Commission on Soviet Je-
wry of the Jewish Federa-
tion-Council of Greater Los
Angeles. An ad in the pro-
gram explained that the
reason for the protest was
the denial by Soviet authori -
ties of human rights to So-
viet Jews.

*

Bolshoi Program Deletes Ad;
L.A. Jews Considering Suit

LOS ANGELES (JTA) —
The Los Angeles Jewish
Federation-Council is con-
sidering legal action for
breach of contract because a
paid advertisement it had
placed in the program book-
let of the Soviet Bolshoi Bal-
let performances here was
ripped out before the pro-
gram was distributed to the
audience.
The ad welcomed the So-
viet dancers but charged
that "Soviet Jews are denied
the right to emigrate freely;
to practice their religion;
and to study their culture
and ancestral language"
Lillian Libman, tour di-
rector for Hurok Concerts,
Inc., sponsors of the Bolshoi
tour, said the sponsors had
the right to remove "of-
fensive material" from the
program and added that "if
any further insults are lev-
eled against the Russians,
they will have to cancel."

The federation arranged
a demonstration when the
Bolshoi performances be-
gan, which was attended -
by 1,000 protesters. Pro-
grams distributed to pa-
trons on the first and sec-
ond nights had three pages,
torn out and on the third
night ads that appeared on
those pages were deleted.

An advertisement placed
by the Southern California
Council for Soviet Jewry on
behalf of Aleksandr Sol-
zhenitsyn's book "Gulag
Archipelago" also was re-
moved as was an ad by the
Los Angeles Recreation and
Parks Department advertis-
ing a performance by Val-
ery and Galina Panov at the
Greek Theater here.
The Panovs, former mem-
bers of the Kirov Ballet of
Lenigrad, were permitted to
leave Russia for Israel last
year after years of struggle
for exit visas.

*

First Torah Since 1917 to Be
Published in Soviet Union

NEW YORK (JTA) — A
Hebrew edition of the Pen-
tateuch, the Five Books of
Moses, with Russian tran-
slation, will be published in
the Soviet Union for the
first time since the 1917 rev-
olution, it was announced
here.
The conference marked
the return of three religious
leaders and trustees of the
Appeal of Conscience Foun-
dation from their June 3-10
visit to the Soviet Union and
Hungary: Rabbi Arthur
Schneier, of Park East Syn-
agogue in New York and
president of the Founda-
tion; Bishop Silas, head of
the largest Greek Orthodox
Diocese in the United States
and chief aide to Arch-
bishop Iakovos of the Greek
Orthodox Church of North
and South America; and the
Rev. Donald R. Campion,
editor-in-chief of the Jesuit
national weekly, "America."
Free emigration and the
opportunity for religious
and cultural survival for
those Russians who wish to
remain in the Soviet Union
stand as the main purposes
of the foundation and of this
trip. they said.

The three-man team ac-
knowledged on behalf of
the Soviet government of-
ficials, much greater re-
ceptivity and willingness
to admit that there does
exist a problem in the mat-
ter of religion which can-
not be solved with the old
methods of repression that
had been witnessed on
their previous_ trip in 1966.

Yet, although they re-
ceived assurances on the
publication of the Torah and
the promise to consider the
creation of a central organi-
zation for Russian syn-
agogues, Rabbi Schneier
agreed that, taken in itself,
this display of "gradualism"
holds little importance.

Viktor N. Titov, the newly
appointed deputy chairman
of the USSR Council for
Religious Affairs, refused to
discuss the possibility of
free emigration,, Rabbi
Schneier stated. But the
foundation is also deeply
concerned with the condi-
tion of religious life within
the Soviet Union itself, and
therefore these gradual con-
siderations are vitally im-
portant. he stressed.

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