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Rallies to Benefit Soviet Jews

(Continued from Page 1)
In Detroit, the Jewish
Community Council will
join the Jewish War Vete-
rans, Detroit Committee
for Soviet Jewry, the
Michigan Jewish Singles
Council and Workmen's
Circle in a rally 8 p.m.
Sunday at Cong. David,
featuring a talk by Mirald
Lisin, a resettled Soviet
Jew, and entertainment
by Mischa Lefkowitz and
Tanya Klempner, a
Soviet Jewish brother
and sister, who have set-
tled in the Detroit area.
Theme of the rally is "One
Torah One People. -
Simhat Torah was cho-
sen for the solidarity ral-
lies since it is a time for
expressing the unity of
the Jewish people. Ac-
cording to Eugene Gold,
chairman of the National
Conference on Soviet
Jewry, "It is especially
important that we join
throughout the 'United
States in our common
struggle to return his-
toric traditions to Soviet
Jews and fight the laws
that deny them the basic
right to leave.
Soviet Jews have been
openly harassed for their
participation in Simchat
Torah celebrations.
According to Jonathan
Schenker, public infor-
mation officer of the
NCSJ, Article 125 of the
SOviet constitution
guarantees Soviet citi-
zens the right to assem-
ble, to a free press,
speech, and the right to
demonstrate. But in
practice, all demonstra-
tions were arranged by
the Kremlin prior and
during the Stalin regime.
,Only under the rule of
Khruschev did dissident
intellectuals begin to
openly protest against
the regime, unfurling
banners furtively and
quickly dispersing before
the police gp u 1 d arrestor
detain the.
Until the early 70's pro-
. tests by Soviet Jews were
either spontaneous (such
as those hailing visiting
Israeli singers) or were
direct responses to the
trial of leading Jewish ac-
. tivists; (during the
Leningrad trials of 4970
and 1971.)
The first demonstration
to go beyond these pro-
tests was aimed at the 24th
Soviet Party Congress.
Scheduled in Moscow from
March 29 to April 7, 1971,
the Congress was at-
tended by foreign party
delegations and members
of the world press.
Encouraged 'by the
West's outcry over the
1970 Leningrad hijacking
trial Soviet-Jewish ac-
tivists planned a sit-in at.
the reception center of
the Presidium of the
USSR Supreme Soviet.
Twenty-four Jews drew
up an appeal posing a
series of questions on
their right to emigrate
and the government's
emigration procedures.
After a six-hour wait
the Jews were told the
Presidium would consider
their questions and give
them reasonable answers
by March 1. The group

Thousands of Soviet .Jews gather yearly at 8 Ar-
khipova St., where Moscow's synagogue serves as the
central place of worship. During Simhat Torah celebra-
tions, Jews have gathered in front of the synagogue
celebrating the giving of the Torah and their historic
tradition. * * *
dispersed and no arrests
The demonstrators
were made.
reassembled the next day
On March 1, the origi- at the Ministry of In-
nal signatories along terior. There they in-
with additional suppor- sisted that the entire de-
ters were received by legation be seen, reject-
government 'officials, in- ing offers of meetings
cluding the head of OVIR, with officials on an indi-
while more than 100 Jews vidual basis.
waited outside. The offi-
After a drawn-out dis-
cial reply assured the ac- cussion, Col. General
tivists that each applica- Nikolai Shchelokov, the
tion would be considered Minister of Internal Af-
individually. In addition fairs, appeared. He spoke
the authorities promised at length to the group,
to investigate why the answering questions and
post office was remiss in promising strict adher-
delivering the visas that ence to "socialist legal-
were sent to applicants ity. - He promised that a
and in processing the ap- special representative
plication formItbAt were would be appointed to
mailed back. A"Tecond *xamine each rejection.
crisis passed without in- At 4 p.m. on -March 11 the
cident.
demonstrators dis-
Nine days later ac- banded, having won. an
tivists from eight cities, unprecedented victory.
confronted the Pres- Not one was attested. In
idium. The delegation, 1971 several thousand
gathered in the rweption Jews were permitted to
room and demanded an leave the Soviet Union.
audience. When no con-
The deMonstrations
ference was scheduled, successes strengthened
they signed a statement the activists. After March
saying: "In sign of protest 1971 public protests were
against our forcible de- undertaken regularly.
tention on the territory of
In Moscow the focal
the USSR, we declare a point for such protests, a
hunger strike. -
new group of leaders
That afternoon, western emerged who were to pro-
correspondents came to vide continuitrand endur-
interview the protesters. ance during. the years
At 5 p.m. the journalists ahead. By the early sum-
were removed, the room mer of 1971, most of the
was darkened, and the prominent earlier ac-
demonstrators asked to tivists had either bee
leave. Various officials given permission to leav
engaged them in heated or .were in prison. In som
debates, but they did not cities, replacing them was
move. About 450 Soviet a problem.
police in boots and helmets
But in Moscow, with its
enters(' the room. The substantial Jewish popu-
lieutenant general of the lation, there were many
Moscow police gave the trained individuals who
demonstrators two mi- were persistently denied
nutes to leave or face "the exit visas on the grounds
full severity of Soviet that they had partici-
law." Resistance seemed pated in secret work and
pointless and the group classified materials.
left.
When such a judgment
was made, the individual
Dropsie Names
was prevented from leav-
Executive to Post
ing for two to five years Or
PHILADELPHIA — more. Since one also lost
Jules Broudy, Philadel- one's job or was demoted
phia business executive, because of one's applica-
was elected chairman of tion, a whole class of well
the executive committee educated and bitterly
of The Dropsie Univer- frustrated individuals
sity, it was announced by was created, and they be-
Leon J. Perelman, presi- came dedicated to the
cause of Soviet Jewry.
dent.

