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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. According to Stanley H. 8 AIR CONDITIONED COURTS FRANKIJN RACQUET CLUB HAS SOUTHFIELD'S RNEST TEACHING PROGRAM! 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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.