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46 April 2, 1976
50 Congressmen Begin National Campaign for Soviet Jews
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Fifty Congressmen have
begun a four-month vigil of
three speeches weekly in the
House to help bring to na-
tional attention the plight of
Soviet Jewish families forci-
bly separated by the Soviet
government.
Rep. Joshua Eilberg (D.-
Pa.), chairman of the House
sub6ommittee on immigra-
tion, and Rep. Elizabeth
Holtzman (D.-NY), a com-
mittee member, opened the
vigil last week with state-
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ments setting the purpose
and theme of the vigil: to
have the Soviet Union im-
plement the commitment it
made last year at the Hel-
sinki conference to allow
families to be reunited.
Rep. Sidney Yates (D.-
Ill.) made the first appeal
for a family March 17, ask-
ing that Felix Aronovich,
an engineer in Leningrad,
be permitted to reunite
with his mother, Mrs. Lu-
boy Dinenzim, and his
brother Viktor, who were
allowed to • emigrate in
1974 and now live in Chi-
cago.
In New York, Dr. Yev-
geny Levich, the former
Soviet physicist who emi-
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the Jewish Community
Council of Greater Wash-
ington. A mammoth march
down Fifth Avenue, in New .4
York City, organized by the
Greater New York Confer-
ence on Soviet Jewry, is ex-
pected to draw over 120,000
participants May 2, mark-
ing the close of Solidarity
Month.
Egypt-USSR Split
Raises Questions
WASHINGTON (ZINS)
— The cancelling of an
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JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Labor Alignment's sec-
ond round of debate on "end
Of war" diplomacy in the
Knesset on Monday pro-
duced a widened rift be-
oween "hawks" and "doves."
The government's 'policies
and party leadership were
sharply criticized by For-
mer Foreign Minister Abba
Eban and Former -Histadrut
Secretary General Yitzhak
Ben-Aharon among others.
Transport Minister Gad
Yaacobi was the govern-
mdnt's chief defender.
The most explosive issues
were Jewish prayer on the
Temple Mount in Jerusalem
and illegal Jewish settle-
ment on the West Bank —
subjects currently being
debated in the UN Security
Council — which sparked
the recent wave of riots and
demonstrations on the West
.Bank and.in East Jerusa-
lem.
Ben-Ahron contended
that these disturbances
were brought on by a
"series" of "Jewish na-
tionalistic and religious
provocation." He said the
weakness of the Labor
Party and the Labor
Alignment encouraged
these provocations.
Yaacobi retorted • that
Ben-Aharon's charges were
"wrong and unjust" and
without "factual basis." He
observed that demonstra-
tion had occurred in the
administered territories
long before these issues
came up that it was simply
"not true" that Jews
sparked the disturbances.
Yaacobi and Ben-Aharon
also argued over the govern-
ment's plan to requisition
Egyptian-Soviet treaty
raises a very importa: 41).0
question regarding the dip
lomatic efforts of the State
Department to achieve
peace in the Middle East,
observers say. If President
Sadat and the Egyptian
Parliament can unilaterally
abrogate a signed and valid
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treaty with the Soviet
Union, what is to prevent
them from doing the same
with any legal commit-
ments which are' made with
the United States and Is-
rael?
,
Mrs. Frank Church, second from right, wife of the
U.S. Senator receives printed material on the Russian
electronics engineer, Lev Gendin, who is struggling to
leave Russia for Israel. His wife who succeeded in leav-
ing Russia over a year ago is presently a student at Bar-
Ilan. Presenting the material to Mrs. Church is Michael
Jankelawitz; a leader of the Students' Council at Bar-
Ilan University. With Mrs. Church are, from left, Janke-
lowitz; Mrs. Hanna Lesser of Bar-IlanUniversity; Mrs.
Church; and Jane Stern, of New York, newly-elected
chairman of the American Board of Overseers of Bar-
Ilan University.
with nine other Sverdlovsk
activists signed a statement
six years ago protesting the
harsh sentences meted out
to the first Leningrad trial
defendants and was ar-
rested in April 1972 follow-
ing a malicious campaign in
the local press, was released
in July 1975, now lives with
`End of War' Knesset Debate
Leads to Widened Party Rift
WEEK AT
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grated to Israel in April,
1975, said his arrival for the
beginning of a nationwide
one-month tour that he is
seeking "continued support
and increased pressure from
scientists across the United
States to help my father and
mother and other Jews leave
the Soviet Union."
Dr. Levich said his par-
ents' condition is serious.
"I believe that continued
protest from Western scien-
tists could result in my par-
ents' release. If necessary, I
would suggest that Western
scientists apply both moral
and practical pressure,
especially on scientific ex-
changes, until Soviet Jewish
scientists can freely emi-
grate and the open exchange
of scientists between the
two countries becomes the
rule, rather than the excep-
tion."
In a related develop-
ment, Vladimir Markman,
a 38-year-old engineer
from Sverdlovsk who
served three years in a
strict regime Soviet labor
camp on charges of
"hooliganism" and
"dissemination of anti-
Soviet propaganda," will
arrive March 24 to begin a
national tour on behalf of
others still imprisoned in
Soviet labor camps.
Markman, who together
land in Galilee for Jewish
settlement, the latter claim-
ing that it was unwise. The
plan calls for displacing a
certain number of Arabs
who would be offered com-
pensatory land. Yaacobi
said the program was
planned "with great care
and consideration." Ben-
Aharon said the Labor
Party failed to "draw a clear
line" between itself and
such militant groups as the
Gush Emunim and Likud.
Housing Minister Avra-
ham Ofer, a Cabinet "dove,"
said the Labor Alignment
should emphasize that the
basic element of the Arab-
Israeli conflict was the ex-
istence of two states, a Jew-
ish State "and an Arab
State to the East."
Eban charged that Is,
rael caused itself great
damage by conceding for
the first time since 1948
that a legal state of war
existed with the Arabs. It
lent legitimacy to the Arab
blockades, boycott and
other measures which they
would claim were privi-
leges conferred by the
state of war, he said.
Eban was apparently im-
plying that by assenting to
an American initiative to
explore Arab attitudes to-
ward discussing an end of
the state of war, the Israeli
Government had acknowl-
edged that a state of war ex-
isted. This was something
Israel's friends never
countenanced, the former
minister said. But he pre-
dicted that the "end of war"
diplomacy would founder on
Arab obduracy and was
therefore no more realistic
than full peace proposals.
his family in Beersheba.
Stanley H. Lowell, chair-
man of the NCSJ, called for
a month of demonstrations
on behalf of Soviet Jewry
across the United States.
Solidarity Month will be-
gin Sunday with a public
rally in Washington, D.C.,
at the Ellipse sponsored by
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