28 November 21, 1975
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Businessmen Seek Funds for Yeshivot
Sakharov-Spokesman for Freedom
NEW YORK — The Jew-
ish Alliance of Businessmen
has launched a campaign to
raise scholarship funds
from the business and pro-
fessional communities.
Many students are being
denied a yeshiva education,
and many teachers do not
receive their salaries for
weeks, sometimes even
months, owing to a dearth
of funds.
Full or part scholarships-
BY JOSEPH POLAKOFF
(Copyright 1975, JTA, INC.)
(Editor's note: Nobel
Laureate Andrei Sakharov
announced last week that
Soviet authorities have
denied him permission to
travel to Oslo, Sweden to
receive the Nobel Peace
Prize.)
Dr. Andrei D. Sakharov's
half-Jewish wife of only a
few years aroused in him
that militancy against op-
pression and anti-Semitism
in the Soviet Union that
made him a leading spokes-
man for freedom and hu-
man dignity, according to
Rep. Robert F. Drinan (D-
Mass.).
Writing of his visit to
Russia's world-renowned
nuclear physicist seven
weeks before Dr. Sakharov
was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize, Rep. Drinan,
who is a Catholic priest,
said he felt during their
80-minute meeting in Mos-
cow that it was his wife, Ye-
lena Bonner Sakharov, who
inspired him to become
"Russia's most troublesome
dissident in residence."
Mrs. Sakharov also hap-
pens to be the aunt of Ed-
ward Kuznetsov, who was
sentenced to 15 years im-
prisonment at the first Len-
ingrad hijacking trial that
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YELENA and ANDREI SAKHAROV
created a furor for relief of
Soviet Jewry.
eye surgery. "Sakharov
noted that it was only world
pressure from such persons
as Willy Brandt and King
Baudouin in Belgium that
had produced a visa for his
wife," Rep. Drinan said.
"I told Dr. Sakharov
The Drinan report, pub-
lished in the Congres-
sional Record Sept. 25 at
the request of Rep. Jona-
than B. Bingham (D-NY),
said:
"It was extraordinarily
moving to hear Sakharov
speak with such conviction
about religious freedom. I
was listening to a man who,
after the death of his wife,
married in the early 1970s a
woman he met at one of the
protest vigils he attended.
"Half-Jewish and the
daughter of a woman who
spent 16 years in in Stalinist
prison camps, this woman
knew the lash of Russian
oppression and Soviet anti-
Semitism. It was she, I
thought as I sat in awe and
admiration in Sakharov's
modest apartment, who
must have radicalized and
`religionized' her husband."
Two days before his meet-
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harov suggested that
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