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16 October 31, 1975

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Promise to Levich Rescinded; 52 British MPs Sign Protests

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viet Academy of Science,
head of the Electro-Chemi-
cal Institute in Moscow
and head of the Electro-
Chemical faculty at Mos-
cow University. His appli-
cation to emigrate was
denied on grounds that he
possessed classified infor-
mation. Prof. Levitch said
the Soviet Academy of
Science conceded that he
was no security risk but
the KGB (secret police)
insisted otherwise.

The motion in Parliament
was sponsored by MPs of all
political persuations and by
the all-party Parliamentary
Committee for the Release
of Soviet Jewry, chaired by
conservative MP Hugh
Dykes.

The committee's secre-
tary, Labor MP Greville
Janner, tried unsuccessfully
to present a copy of the mo-
tion to the leader of the So-

viet delegation at the Anglo-
.Soviet Round Table Confer-
ence currently being held at
the Royal Institute of Inter-
national Affairs. A Soviet
diplomat said "The matter
of Prof. Levich will be
solved," but refused to con-
vey the motion to the Rus-
sian Ambassador, Nicolai
Lunkov.
In a letter to Yevgeny Lev-
ich in Israel, Dyke,s and Jan-
ner declared "we shall cam-
paign unremittingly until
your parents are released."

In Tel Aviv, a group of
recent immigrants from
the Soviet Union held a
three-day hunger strike
outside the Finnish Em-
bassy here to protest the
denial of an exit visa from
the Soviet Union for Mrs.
Ida Nudel, described as
the "Florence Nightin-
gale" of Jewish prisoners
of conscience in the USSR.
Finland has handled So-

viet affairs in Israel since
Moscow severed diplo-
matic relations in 1967.

The hunger-strikers said
that Mrs. Nudel was the one
person above all who helped.
maintain the morale of Jew-
ish prisoners confined to So-
viet jails and forced labor
camps. She constantly
helped with letters and par-
cels and, according to many
former prisoners, was re-
sponsible for ending harass- .
ment and physical abuse by
publicizing their plight to
Western sources.

As a result of her activi-
ties, Mrs. Nude' has been re-
peatedly arrested, interro-
gated and threatened with
reprisals including confine-
ment to a mental institu-
tion, the strikers said. In
one instance, when she went
to a hospital for a checkup
on a heart ailment, her
chart indicated that she was

there for more than two
years. They were among
the hunger strikers, as
was David Chernoglas, a
former prisoner in the So-
viet Union.

DEBORAH SAMUILOVICH

being treated for alcohol-
ism.
Mrs. Nudel, 44, was em-
ployed as an economist at
the Moscow Institute for Ec-
onomic Engineering. For
the past four years her ap-
plications for an exit visa
were denied by the Soviet
authorities on grounds that
she had access to confiden-
tial material.

Her husband, Yuli
Brind, arrived in Israel
last April, and her sister,
Elena Friedman, has been

Cabinet Denounces Herzog's Public Criticism

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and with the wrong empha-
Another observer sug- sis.
gested that there was much
He said his criticism
truth in Herzog's allega- was directed at the Jewish
tions, although it was fool- man-in-the-street both in
ish for him to have voiced New York and in Israel
them publicly. According to and not at the American
that observer, the Congres- Jewish leadership.
sional action was the result
"Let me make it quite
of initiatives by Secretary of clear the Jewish leadership
State Henry A. Kissinger was fully aware at all times
and- Ambassador Daniel of the implications of the
Moynihan rather than of sinister resolution intro-
Jewish lobbying efforts.
duced by the Arabs in the
In New York, Herzog said Third Committee and
he was quoted out of context reacted accordingly.

"In particular, I wish to
pay'tribute in this respect to
Rabbi (Israel) Miller
(chairman of the Presidents
Conference). In my re-
marks, I questioned
whether the ordinary Jew in
the street had indeed
grasped the full significance
of this new attack against
Jewry.
"I did so because I felt
from my observations that
the man-in-the-street reac-
tion in New York and in Is-
rael was such to indicate

Leadership Awards Presented
at Federation's Annual Meeting

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lation will soon be catego-
rized as " 'elderly.' " He
also cited inflation and
unemployment as affect-
ing growing numbers of
Detroit Jews.

Berman's presidential
address gave a thorough re-
view of Federation's activi-
ties, on the home front and
abroad. It eviphasized the
communal responsibilities
and affirmed dedication to
continued tasks in areas of
Israel's security and the
national, local, educational
and social service duties.
Berman welcomed to the
gathering executives- of the
United Foundation, H. Clay
Howell and Myron Liner;
commented on the share De-
troit Jewry has in the large
community services organi-
zation and urged generous
support of the United Foun-
dation in its current cam-
paign.
Prior to making the pres-
entation to Stutz, Berry ex-
pressed the community's
gratitude to Berman, for his
services as Federation presi-
dent for the past three
years, and presented him
with the Federation Medal-
lion and a scrapbook record-
ing his years of service.
Berry, a former chairman
of the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, presented the 1975

Butzel Award to George M.
Stutz.

Berry noted that Stutz
fulfilled the criteria for the
award: long service to the
Jewish and general commu-
nities, and character and
integrity in communal af-
fairs.
Stutz helped found the
Emergency Relief Fund
during the Depression,
which later became a part of
the Jewish Social Service
Bureau. He was later presi-
dent of a forerunner of the
Jewish Family and Chil-
drens Service, has been ac-
tive - in Campaign, Federa-
tion, the Detroit Service
Group, United Community
Services and the Goodfellow
Fund.

In an expression of ap-
preciation for an honor
that linked his name with
that of Fred M. Butzel,
Stutz took occasion to
praise the leadership with
which he was associated
and the professional staff
whose labors he corn-
mended.

Other participants on
the program included Alan
E. Schwartz, who handled
the elections; a report by
William Avrunin, and the
invocation by Rabbi Leon
Fram of Temple Israel.

A pictorial record, of per-
sonalities and institutions,
marking Detroit Jewry's
communal history, illus-
trated the addresses of the
entire evening.

Students Begin
Studies in Israel

NEW YORK — A total erf
400 American and Canadian
college students and gradu-
ates of yeshiva high schools
between the ages of 17 and
22 have left for a year of in-
tensive Judaic studies in Is-
rael, according to Micha
Yinon, director of the Torah
education department of the
World Zionist Organization-
American Section.

Rabbi Mallen Galinsky,
deputy director of the Torah
department, who serves as
Elected to the Board of the American registrar of
Governors of Federation the Israeli Colleges of Jew-
were: Mrs. Morris J. Brand- ish Studies, indicated a
wine, Martin E. Citrin, Beh- • sharp rise in the number of
jamin Frank. Irwin Green, American students who
Robert Zell, Rabbi Irwin choose to devote at least one
Groner, Robert A. Stein- year of their college career
berg, Lester S. Burton, and to intensive Judaic studies
Mrs. Hugh W. Greenberg. in Israel.

that the danger inherent in
this new attack was not
readily appreciated.

"I felt it was important
to sound the alarm, to ex-
plain the significance of
the attack and to exhort
Jews wherever they may
be to renewed efforts to
combat this danger."

Herzog also was critical
of the public reaction in Is-
rael to the anti-Zionist draft
vote. He said "the media in
Israel paid comparatively
scant attention" to the is-
sue, adding that "they were
busy reporting the antics of
Yehoshua Peretz," chief of
the Ashdod port stevedores,
"when our enemies were
and are planning that Ash-
dod should not exist."
He said Israeli workers
were striking against the
government "while the eli-
mination of Israel and its
government is being
planned and this resolution
is part of the plan."
Referring to Arab anti-
Semitism as "one of the
most violent forms of rac-
ism," Herzog warned that
this might "destroy the
United Nations and much
else."

He said "I think it is
time that world Jewry
appreciate the dangers
that threaten it and mobil-
ized and displayed itself to
meet them and thwart our
enemies."

He said Jews have learned
from the past that they can-
not ignore this modern anti-
Semitism and, for the sake
of future Jewish genera-
tions, they must speak out
"against this new interna-
tional outburst of anti-Sem-
itism."
A few participants at the
meeting, among them Rabbi
Fabian Schonfeld, president
of the Rabbinical Council of
America, and editor Marie
Syrkin, said in a question
and answer period after
Herzog's speech that they
agreed with Herzog's criti-
cism of the response of
American Jewry, before and
after approval of the Third
Committee resolution, as
inadequate.

In London, it was learned
that Jewish sources in the
Soviet Union reported that
Anatoly Malkin's appeal
against his three-year
prison sentence has been
rejected by the Moscow re-
gional court. The appeal
court confirmed the sent-
ence. Malkin was convicted
of draft evasion.
He had received call-up
papers, as his defense coun-
sel stressed in court, shortly
after applying for an exit
permit to go to Israel. Malk-
in's parents were present at
the appeal hearing, but did
not say a word. The authori-
ties made Malkin's mother
write a letter reproaching
her son which was read in
court.
It was also reported that
Alexander Feldman, who
was sentenced on Nov. 23,
1973 to a 3 1/2-year strict re-
gime term in the Kharson
labor camp, was beaten up
recently after he was found
in possession of an appeal,
the content of which re-
mains unknown. He was
subsequently transferred
from the camp to an undis-
closed prison. Feldman was
tried and sentenced on the
charge of "hooliganism."

"The KGB informed me
that the personnel depart-
ment of the Institute for
Atomic Energy had recom-
mended that I should not be
allowed beyond the borders
of the Soviet Union for the
rest of my life," Prof. Samu-
ilovich said. "I have begged
the authorities to permit me
to live out the rest of my
days with my only son in Is-
rael and not to deprive me of
the comfort of being with
my own flesh and blood as I
am a sick and aged woman
and simply cannot go on liv-
ing alone."
To show solidarity write
Mrs. Samuilovich, Chkalova
Street 21/1, apt. 43, Mos-
cow, RSFSR, USSR.
Meanwhile, Charles
Vanik (D-Ohio), met with
Romanian Chief Rabbi
Moses Rosen, his wife and
Jewish personalities in Ro-
mania, Vanik is the co-au-
thor of the Jackson-Vanik
amendment to the U.S.-
Russian trade agreement
which would have allowed
free emigration of minori-
ties from the Soviet Union.

GERALD E.

NAFTALY

for

Oak Park Council
Nov. 4

Pd. Pol. Adv.

Meanwhile, Deborah
Samuilovich, a retired
professor of physics and
mathematics "is caught in
a classic Soviet 'Catch-22'
squeeze. All her 30 years of
work with nuclear emul-
sions have long been de-
classified or have never
been considered secret.
Yet she is denied exit to Is-
rael on these very grounds
of 'state security'.

MORRY
ALTMAN

of Pampano Florida
whishes to thank
all of his family
and friends for their
good wishes during
his recent illness

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