16 Friday, December 3, 1976
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
GRAM Yosef Tekoah States Opposition to Aiding Dropouts
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welfare of Soviet Jews,
whether they desire to
leave for Israel, emigrate
to other countries, or re-
main in the Soviet Union.
That is not at issue.
The problem is what
should be the attitude to
those who instead of ask-
ing for an exit permit to
the U.S. or another West-
ern country, leave the
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Soviet Union ostensibly
for Israel, and then drop
out on the way and end up
elsewhere.
The present service ar-
rangements for dropouts
in Vienna, sponsored by
HIAS and the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee,
with the cooperation of
the Israel government
and the Jewish Agency,
are such as to encourage,
legitimize, and increase
the flow of dropouts to
America.
From six percent three
years ago, the proportion
of dropouts has now
reached 60 percent, and it
is continuing to move up-
wards. The full implica-
tions of this situation
must be examined.
The Soviet Union has
never changed its funda-
mental attitude toward the
right of Soviet Jews to
emigrate. Under interna-
tional pressure it has
merely allowed a small
number of Jews to leave
for the Jewish state.
Yet, their number has
been
considerably
greater than the trickle of
non-Jewish Soviet citi-
zens permitted to move to
the West. The reason for
the difference is obvious.
An exception was being
made for Jews because
they were going to their
Jewish state and not just
fleeing Soviet society for
the capitalist world.
Since the beginning of
aliya from the USSR, I
have warned repeatedly
that the Soviet govern-
ment would seize every
opportunity to free itself
from the necessity to
permit Jewish emigra-
tion.
It has already done so
by alleging that the im-
migrants' absorption dif-
ficulties in Israel have re-
sulted in a decrease in the
number of requests to
leave for Israel.
This allegation is being
made despite the fact
that there are today at
least 180,000 such re-
quests that have been
submitted to the Soviet
government by Jewish
citizens and have not-yet
been approved.
With the increase in the
number of dropouts, the
Soviet authorities have
begun to give publicity to
this new development and
to emphasize that Soviet
Jews do not in fact want to
go to Israel. Indeed, the
Soviet authorities, when
granting exit permits for
Israel, have been openly
giving preference to po-
tential dropouts.
The objective is clear. If
Moscow can create the
impression that Jews do
not seek to emigrate to
Israel but simply to leave
the USSR, there will be
no reason to treat their
problem differently from
the treatment meted out
to requests for emigra-
tion by Russians, Ukrai-
nians, or Lithuanians.
Every dropout who has
left the USSR on a visa
for Israel has taken , the
Anti-Rabbinate
Issue Quashed
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Moderates in the World
Union for Progressive
Judaism suppressed a
proposed resolution
which
for the aboli-
tional Conference on tion of called
the Chief Rabbi-
Soviet Jewry and the nate in Israel.
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Rabbi Joseph Glazer
Soviet Jewry reported.
Among those Moscow executive vice president
activists whose homes of the Central Conference
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were searched and docu- of American Rabbis, had
ments confiscated, the denounced the Chief
NCSJ reported, were Rabbinate earlier as "op-
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UNITED NATIONS
(JTA) — Israel has ac-
cused the United'Nations
of ignoring and overlook-
ing the plight of Soviet
and Syrian Jews.
Addressing the Social
and Humanitarian Com-
mittee (Third Committee)
of the General Assembly,
the Israeli representa-
tive, Ambassador Arieh
Eilan, said that since last
year's General. Assembly
where Israel raised the
issue of Soviet and Syrian
Jewry, there has been no
improvement in the con-
dition of those com-
munities.
Eilan described Syrian
Jewry as a "hostage
community."
At the same time, a
group of Soviet Jews wrote
President-Elect Jimmy
Carter last week, asking
for U.S. pressure on the
Soviet Union at the United
Nations on behalf of Soviet
Jewry.
The homes of at least
five Jewish scientists
planning a symposium
this month on Jewish cul-
ture in the Soviet Union
were raided by Soviet
secret police, the Na-
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place of another Jew who
longs to go to the Jewish
state and is being denied
this right because the
quota of exit permits for
Israel is limited and is
being continuously di-
minished.
To ignore these facts
and call for support of the
dropouts instead of con-
centrating all efforts on
the elithination of this
dangerous phenomenon
is to disregard the inter-
ests of Soviet Jewry. This
cannot be explained away
by involing abstruse
principles.
We must not sacrifice
the Jewish masses of the
Soviet Union for the sake
of a few who think nothing
of improving their per-
sonal lot at the expense of
so many others and thus
serve as tools in the hands
of the Soviet authorities
who strive to undermine
aliya.
We in Israel can only
hope that American Jew-
ry's judgment will be a
judgment to save the
Soviet Jewish masses.
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