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April 23, 1976 - Image 16

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1976-04-23

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- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

16 April 23, 1976

Jewish Activists in the Soviet Union Report
Increased Repression, Persecution of Jews

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"increase in repression and
various kinds of persecution
against those desirous of
emigrating".
The text entitled "Mes-
sage From Moscow," seeks
to refute Soviet Internal
Affairs Deputy Minister
Boris Shumilin's widely-cir-
culated contention that the
drop in Jewish emigration
to 13,900 last year occurred
because fewer Russian Jews
sought to leave.
"Message From Moscow"
details nine distinct meth-
ods of intimidation of
would-be exit applicants,
ranging from punitive army
drafts to trials to recruit-

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sentence for seeking exit to
Israel.
Meanwhile, Leonard Gar-
ment, U.S. representative to
the UN Commission on
Human Rights, Special
State Prosecutor Maurice
Nadjari and Judge Jacob
Fuchsberg of the State
Court of Appeals were
among a group of prominent
New York jurists, attorneys
and law enforcement offi-
cials who gathered last
week for a "Seder for Jus-
tice."
The seder, which took
* * *
place in Haydn Hall of NY
Law School, was sponsore
Nun Will Speak
by the New York Legal Coa
lition for Soviet Jewry, an
on Soviet Jewry
affiliate of the Greater New
The American Jewish York Conference on Soviet
Congress and Adat Shalom
Jewry.
Men's Club invites the pub-
On hand also at the
lic to hear Sister Margaret seder was Aviva- Gendin,
Ellen Traxler report on the 24, who has not seen her
recent Brussels II Confer- husband Lev for four
ence on Soviet Jewry at 8 years. Three months after
p.m. Thursday at Adat their marriage, she was
Shalom.
forcibly separated from
Sister Traxler is director her husband when she was
of the Institute of Women given 10 days to leave the
Today, is the founder of the USSR.
National Coalition of Amer-
She is in New York as a
ican Nuns, is a member of guest of the Greater New
the National Interreligious York Conference to take
Task Force on Soviet Jewry.
part in "Solidarity Sunday
She was founder and direc- for Soviet Jewry" May 2,
tor of Traveling Workshops
and to gain support for her
on inter-group relations, efforts to be reunited in Is-
founder of Student's Urban
rael with her husband.
Education, co-founder of
It, was learned that more
Project Bridge, an ethnic- than 60 Soviet Jewish activ-
racial program, co-founder ists from Moscow gathered
and director of a pilot pov- in the home of Vladimir
erty school, founder and di- Furman on the first night of
rector of Library Lifeline in Passover, the Greater New
the south and director of York Conference on Soviet
other organizations in the Jewry said.
field of education. She has
Meanwhile, Congress-
edited books and published woman Elizabeth Holtz-
articles, and has been recog- man, joined by former
nized for her work for peace, U.S. Attorney-General
civil liberties, women's Ramsey Clark and other
rights and religious free- notables, led 1,000 youths
in the Student Struggle for
dom.
For information, call Soviet Jewry's 10-mile
American Jewish Congress, Passover Walkathon in
357-2766, or Adat Shalom, New York, a modern inter-
851-5100. Admission is free, pretation of the ancient
and a social hour will fol- Israelite exodus from
low.
Egypt.
* * *

ment of informers by KGB
agents.
The authors of "Mes-
age`From Moscow" are
Dina Beilina, Vladimir
Slepak, Ida Nude!, Vitaly
Rubin, Alexander Luntz,
Eitan Finkelstein, Alexan-
der Lerner and Anatoly
Sharansky.
The SSSJ reported that
noted brain morphologist
Dr. Ilya Glezer has tried to
retain his Jewish identity
even in the depths of Siberia
to which he has been exiled
after serving a three year

Soviet Jewish Prisoner's Wife
Will Address Solidarity Rally

Cong. Bnai Moshe will be
the setting for the Detroit
Committee For Soviet Je-
wry's 1976 Walkathon/
Rally, to begin 1 p.m. May 2.
the
annually,
Held
DCFSJ Walkathon raises
funds for the operation of
efforts to aid Soviet Jews re-
fused permission to emi-
grate.

This year's Walkathon
will be highlighted by the
appearance of Israeli Jean-
nette Bernshtein-Mager,
formerly of the Soviet
Union. Recently married to
Mikhail Mager via transo-
ceanic phone, Mrs. Mager is
touring the U.S. to encour-

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her husband's case.
Mager, of Vinnitsa,
Lithuania, USSR, first
applied for an exit permit
in 1972.
Fired from his position
as electronic engineer in a
factory producing spare
parts, he subsists on aid
from abroad.
The public is invited. For
information, call Walka-
thon Chairman Arnold
Michlin, 626-1570.

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