Friday, December 17, 1976 AfellkWIVAL THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Soviet Scholars to Hold Symposium Despite Harassment Rolex Fredrick jewelers* 646.0973 869 West Long lake Road NEW YORK (JTA) — Plans by a group of Soviet Jewish scholars to hold a symposium in Moscow Tuesday on Jewish cul- ture in the USSR are pro- ceeding despite threats and harassment by the Soviet authorities. The Soviet secret police has confiscated all mate- rials related to the event. SMALL BEQUESTS BUILD A STRONG ISRAEL If the tradition of including the Jewish National Fund in the Will of every Jew were invariably followed, sufficient resources would be accumulated to ensure the future of the young Jewish State on a sound basis of land development, social welfare, and justice. A bequest to the Jewish National Fund should be as traditional as having a Blue Box in one's home. You may want your bequest to be dedicated to afforestation, to a village, a Nachla,h, to a children's play area, to perpetual yahrzeit or kaddish, or to some form of permanent tribute in the names of persons dear to you. Consult the Foundation for Jewish National Fund, 22100 Greenfield, 968-0820. They will gladly co-operate with you in working out plans to meet your special requirements, in strict privacy. The apartments of the organizers have been searched and dire warn- ings have been sounded by Soviet officials. But the four organizers are determined to go ahead. A declaration to that effect which de- scribed the action of the KGB, was sent to the Committee of Concerned Scientists here. The organizers said preparations for the sym- posium were completely open. But, according to the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, Deputy Minister of Culture Vla- dimir Popov warned that the symposium is "in viola- tion of Soviet law" and was banned because "it would express a narrow Zionistic and nationalistic point of view." The Soviet news agency Tass accused the organizers of "trying to instigate hostility among Soviet nationalities." Meanwhile, the Grea- ter New York Conference on Soviet Jewry reported that 20 participants in a regularly held Jewish cultural seminar in Vilna, Soviet Lithuania, were offered exit visas on con- dition that they testify that the seminar is an anti-Soviet activity. The participants flatly re- fused. It also reported that Soviet police have de- tained Ema Sotnikova, of Leningrad, editor of "Jews in the USSR;" the only autonomous Jewish magazine published in the Soviet Union. Details of the KGB in- terrogation of Moscow Jews who are organizing In New York, the Na- tional Conference on Soviet Jewry has learned that Tsilia Levinzon, wife of Soviet Jewish POC Sen- der Levinzon, has received an exit permit to emigrate to Israel and with the ap- proval of her husband is expected to leave the USSR for Israel shortly. In a related develop- ment, a group of 70 Soviet Jewish immigrants ar- rived in Tel Aviv recently from Vienna. Meanwhile, Yuri Vudka, of Raizan, near Moscow, arrived in Israel recently after spending seven years in Soviet jails and hard labor camps. In the U.S., Dr. Joshua Fishman, professor of linguistics at Yeshiva University, was refused a visa request from the 'Soviet government just prior for his departure to the Soviet Union. He was to join a group of American scholars who were to fly to Moscow last weekend as part of a cul- tural exchange program. No reason was given for the Russians' denial of the visa. The other particip- ants have canceled their trips. In Kansas City, when Valentin Kamenev, the press counselor for the Soviet Embassy in Washington, spoke on U.S.-Soviet affairs and re- lationships last week to a Russian history class on the University of Missouri-Kansas City campus, the UMKC Jewish college students staged a protest on behalf of Soviet Jewry, it was re- ported by Loring Leifer, feature writer for the a symposium on the state of Jewish culture hi the Soviet Union, were pub- lished in Tel Aviv. The newspaper Maariv also published what it said was the contents of crimi- nal file No. 41035 opened by the KGB against the organizers who' are charged with "spreading material which slanders the Soviet Union and Soviet society." The material covers the questioning of the or- ganizers. According to Maariv it was smuggled to Western sources by Pavel Abramowitz, one of the organizers of the symposium scheduled to be held Tuesday- Thursday. Rae In Detroit, Sharfman, vice chairman of the Detroit Committee for Soviet Jewry, distri- buted a letter to area rabbis urging them to read a statement by Ben- jamin Fein, an organizer of the symposium, to alert their congregations on the plight of the Soviet Jewish scholars. She also asked that night letters be addressed to Soviet Communist Party Secre- tary Leonid Brezhnev urging that the sym- posium be allowed to take place. Meanwhile, the Yom Kippur War and absorp- tion difficulties in Israel were cited as major reasons for the alarming increase in the rate of Soviet Jews who leave the USSR with Israel visas and, upon arriving at the transit point in Vienna, choose to settle in West- ern countries rather than in Israel. 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The petition requested that Kamenev "use what- ever influence he might have to secure the rights of personal freedom" for Evgeny Yakir and his farn/ ily, Soviet refuseniks with whom the social justice committee at the temple has been in communica- tion. According to Richard Dubinsky, a member of the Jewish College Stu- dents, Kamenev evaded the protesters' questions and refused to accept Le- vin's petition. • Bulletin NEW YORK — Presi- dent Ford has been asked by 95 Soviet Jewish ac- tivists to intercede with Russian officials to stop harassment by the KGB and allow next week's Jewish culture sym- posium to proceed. Your U.S. professors who were denied visas to attend the symposium have been invited to ap- pear before a U.S. Con- gressional panel. Seek Nominees for Doctor's Award MILWAUKEE Nominations are being sought for the third Wis- Maimonides consin Award, to honor a Jewish physician who has made significant intellectual contributions in other fields, such as humanities, philosophy or religion. The award is co- sponsored by the .Mt. Sinai Medical Center and the Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning. A committee comprised of faculty members from college departments of Hebrew and Semitic studies, physicians and rabbis will select the reci- pient. The award will be presented at a program in the spring of 1977. Previous winners of the Wisconsin Maimonides Award were Abraham N. Franzblau, MD, preceptor in Psychiatry at Moun Sinai Hospital in New York City, and Victor Goodhill, MD, otologist and professor of surgery at the University of California School of Medi- cine in Los Angeles. The award also in- cludes presentation of a scholarship to a Wiscon- sin Jewish student in honor of the recipient. Nomination forms can be obtained by writing: Medical Center Rela- tions, Mount Sinai Medi- cal Center, PO Box 342, Milwaukee, Wis. 53201. Nominations must be received by Jan. 15.