THE DITRIAT J1W151! 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- _ NOW OPEN MAZER'S SHOES Cradle to College 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- EVERGREEN PLAZA 12 Mile & Evergreen 559-9760 Mon. thru Sat. 10 to 6 Thurs. and Fri. 10 to 9 • Jacob H. Schiff, partner in one of America's leading banking firms, was a great philanthropist. I. MARSHALL STERN 557-5221 557-1960 GRAND OpENI KG KOSHER MEATS No. 2 12 Mile & Evergreen 557-7677 Grand Opening Specials Make It Worth Your While to Come In A Special Welcome To Sidney Mervis Master Butcher now at Dexter Davison Kosher Meats No. 2 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 . 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 4 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 DEAZN 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. 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