THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 62 Friday, September 5, 1975 Soviet Jewry: A Long Year in Review By GREVILLE JANNER (Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.) (Editor's note: Greville Janner is a leading mem- ber of Parliament, a vice president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and one of the leading Rabbi and Mrs. Jacob Hoberman of Bene Brak, Israel wish their relatives and friends a most happy, healthful and prosperous New Year with the fervent hope that World Peace - will prevail in the New Year Mr. and Mrs. David Kahan and Family 15260 Oakwood, Oak Park wish all their friends and relatives a very happy New Year Wishing All Our Friends and Relatives a year of health and happiness Mr. and Mrs. Louis Klein Steven and Beth 29370 Sharon Lane, Southfield Wishing Our Family and Friends Health, Happiness and Peace in the New Year Barbara and Irving Nusbaum Arthur and Robby Mr. and Mrs. Martin Olshansky Debbie and Rick 17244 Pennsylvania, Southfield wish their family and friends a happy, healthy, prosperous New Year ROZ and SID PELTON Plantation, Florida wish all their friends and relatives a good and healthy New Year Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Siegel and Family 1750 N.E. 191st, North Miami, Fla. wish all their family and friends a- happy, healthy New Year MR. AND MRS. LEO WEBER AND SONS 6388 Be% erl ■ Cre,t Dr.. if . i.sh (ill dicir Illoomfield. Inch. vretr (111(1 (111,1 happtirc... (11111 1)(71c,' Mrs. Sigmund (Sophie) Rohlik North Park Towers, Apt. 1520, 16500 North Park Dr. Southfield, Mich. 48075 extends best wishes for a year of health, happiness and prosperity to all her relatives and friends L'EA17A 5736 Sincere Wishes for a New Year Filled with Health, Happiness and Peace MR. and MRS. PAUL ZUCKERMAN members of the British version of the National Conference on Soviet Je- wry.) "One dark night, when we least expect it," said one of the world's top statesmen, "the gates will open again. You can always count on the Soviets to do what we least expect." I hope he is right. Expectations at present are grim. During the past year, we first saw the collapse of the. Jackson Amendment. It represented a calculated risk which was worth tak- ing. Due to the strengthing of the Soviet economy and the reduction in the credit to be made available, it col- lapsed. At that stage, those con- cerned with the Soviet Je- wry movement should have paused, co-ordinated, recon- sidered, and rebuilt the campaign in the light of the new circumstances. Instead, the personnel, the tactics and the slogans remained the same. For the Jews wanting to leave the Soviet Union, the provocations became greater: more risks, more imprisonment and more harassment. More tele- phone lines were shut down, more isolation im- posed, more threats to scientists — and far fewer visas. Occasionally, the Soviets showed a spark of human- ity. While academician Lev- ich and his wife were prom- ised visas for the end of 1975, their two sons — Sasha and Yevgeny (re- cently sentenced to a year in the Soviet Arctic) — emerged with their wives: men of talent, humor and compassion. But on the whole, the picture,v, - as grim. Encouraged by letters from those immigrants who found it difficult to settle down (letters which, of course, always escaped un- touched by the censor) — and depressed by the fear of further war in the Middle East — the number of emerging Jews who went to Vienna, choosing to live in other lands, increased. the adelsteins ronnie and david GREVILLE JANNER Meanwhile, within the Soviet Union, there were• no new facilities for the Jews, except, perhaps, some extra matzo at Pas- sover. And from without, Jewish activists, who might so easily themselves have been hammering from within, kept up their pressures. Happily, many outstand- ing, non-Jews still regard the campaign for freedom for Soviet Jewry as a 'humani- tarian issue of high import- ance. But few are prepared to jeopardize trade with the Soviet Union in return for the lives of unknown Jews. LONDON — A memorial was unveiled recently at Mikulov in Moravia to mark the death of a group of Hun- / garian Jews deported from Hungary and executed in the last stages of the war. Jews from Brno and other localities in Moravia partici- pated in the ceremony, with Dr. Bedrich Bass, chairman of the Jewish -communities in Bohemia and Moravia, and Arnost--Neufeld, chair- man of the Brno Jewish community, as principal speakers. A considerable number of non-Jews from Mikulov are reported to have taken part in the event. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • • * •: May the : : : • NEW YEAR : • " bring to all of • * ; our friends • • • • • .* • happiness, • • • • • • prosperity • •• and good health • • • f e • • • • • • • Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Frenkel • 31750 Lakeside Dr. Farmington Hills, Mich. 48024 • • • oememe)4646immo 46••• • eo *m •me) eme ** *• 4• • • e . . . may the New Year be one of joy, happiness and prosperity for all mankind The Jewish News Staff And Their Families Extends heartiest greetings to the entire Jewish Community of Michigan, with gratitude for the splendid cooperation And the Jewish band-wa- g- On was deliberately chosen by the Soviets as an escape Hungarian Jewish Memorial Unveiled Our Best Wishes For A Year of Peace, Good Health, Happiness and the Joy of Lasting Friendships route for those whom they wished to allow to leave the country, without changing their basic policies of inter- nal repression. that has enabled us to work to- gether for good community spirit. 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