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22 Friday, January 7, 1977
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Justice Department Taking- Steps to Allow
Are Your
OIL
Jewish Emigres in Rome Entry to U.S.
PAINTINGS Soviet
WASHINGTON (JTA)
Dirty
Smoke Damaged
Torn
— The Justice Depart-
ment confirmed that it
was taking steps to per-
mit entry into the U.S. of
Soviet Jewish emigrants
now in Rome.
Rep. Joshua Eilberg
(D-Pa.) said earlier this
week that he _expected
Attorney General Ed-
ward Levi to exercise his
authority of parole for all
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PORSCHE CARS
CALL ,
Soviet Jews who-arrived
at the processing center
in Rome by Dec. 31, 1976;
There are some 4,000
Russiah Yews in that cat-
egory. .
They left the USSR
during 1976 with exit"
visas for Israel, the only
destination for which the
Soviet authorities issue
visas. After crossing the
border they declared
their desire to come to the
U.S.
Eilberg, chairman of
the House subcommittee
on immigration, citizen-
ship and international
law, said, "I am very
pleased by this decision
since it will eliminate a
cruel situation which had
thousands of individuals
and families living in
limbo, not knowing where
their perrrianent homes
would be and forced to
live on charity."
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With both seriousness and levity -, Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry members
point up anti-Jewish persecution in the USSR. Youths, many wearing phylActeries,
conduct a "pray-in" at Aeroflot Airlines to protest the destruction of Russian
Jewish religious life. SSSJ members stage a mock "Brezhnev birthday party" at
the Madison Square Garden performance of Olga Korbut and the Soviet gymnastics
1018 W. 9 Mile Rd.
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a Pinehurst
People Go" to denounce intense harrassment of participants of an unofficial Jewish
cultural symposium in Moscow while the Kremlin leader's 70th birthday was being
widely celebrated.
* * *
Eilberg noted that per-
The document, second in ropolitan Chapter of
sons who are admitted to the "Message" series, is Hadassah reported that
the U.S. under parole are divided into eight major three Soviet Jewish
classified as refugees and areas, ranging from "The families "adopted"
given legal status after Situation of the Prisoners through the organiza-
they arrive'here.
of Conscience" -and "The tion's Adopt-a-Russian-
In New York, the Stu- Fight for the Rebirth of Family project have emi-
dent, Struggle for Soviet Jewish Consciousness" to grated to Israel. The
Jewry reported tlia
t
"Anti-Israel and Anti- Hadassah project is a
Sverdlin, a Lenin- Zionist Propaganda in the joint effort of the local
BET WE'VE GOT THE BEST
grad activist, was ar- Press." It cites scores of women's organization
Selection of Backgammon Sets in town!
rested on a charge of pos- cases of persecution of and the Detroit Commit-
sessing a gun.
Soviet Jews seeking per- tee for Soviet Jewry.
(at a price that's nice)
In a related develop-
If convicted, he faces a mission to emigrate and
YOti ALREADY KNOW WE HAVE THE BEST SELECTION OF JEWELRY!
prison term of 2-5 years. detail's the suffering of in- ment, three social histo-
Sverdlin, a 35-year-old_ carcerated- Jewish ac- rians and philosphers will
examine the abiding cul-
construction engineer, tivists.
4
The report, for exam- tural issues and back-
first applied for an emig-
re-04
4—
ration visa in 1974.
ple, cites an attack with a ground of a. major topic of
Meanwhile,'
a
5,500-
shovel blade on POC Ale- Jewish concern — Soviet
DJANIONDS • FINEJEWELRY • GIFT BOUTIQUE
word analysis of the cur- ' xander Feldman and the Jewish migration and its
rent status of Soviet Jews mysterious transfer of implications for Soviet
Manufacturers of Original
and Unusual Creations
written by a group of "re- POC Alexander Sliunin to Jewry, Israel and other
fuseniks" has been re- a notorious psychiatric communities in the free
leased by the SSSJ and hospital. It lists the in- world — at a symposium
AUTHORIZED APPRAISERS
-Union of Councils for creasing difficulties of ob- Sunday at the Waldorf-
ESTATE LIQUIDATORS
JEWELRY DESIGNERS
Soviet Jews under the taining information from Astoria Hotel in New
title - "Message Frorn other Russian cities:- York, it was announced
31313 Northwestern Hwy.
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851-7333
Moscow II."
"Our telephones are cut; by Earl Morse, president
of 'the National Founda-
letters and telegrain
hardly ever arrive. Those tion for Jewish Culture.
attempting to establish
personal contacts can Terezin Memorial
find themselves under Disregards Jews
arrest."
LONDON — According
In many cities, au- to reports to the Interna-
thorities have created tional Council of Jews
new barriers' to submit- from Czechoslovakia, a
ting exit applications. -In `Hall of Traditions' was_
several places, "a person inaugurated at the end of
may now have to wait a October at Terezin, the
year or more to receive an most notorious of
invitation from relatives Czechoslovakia's Nazi
in Israel." Even if the in- concentration camps
vitation is intercepted, as which sealed the fate of
often 'occurs, "the ad- some 250,000 Jews.
dressee ceases to be • No reference _to -the
looked upon as a loyal Jewish victims -of the
Marvin Check
Marvin Rosen,
Soviet citizen and often camp was made in
becomes the object of coverage of the eve
threats, blackmail and the media which me
KGB' pressure."
spoke of the "troubled
The report also reveals history of Terezin at the
the existence of a small time. of World War II and
"Jewish village," Ilyinki, the happy days of the fu-
whose inhabitants "had ture."
Automatically Notifies
been managing somehow
However, "a promi-
to preserve some sort of ment place in the Terezin
within seconds Police Dept. &
Jewish existence and Hall of Traditions is set
NO IFONE
Fire Dept. Central Office
emergency reporti ng system
religion." About 90 of the apart for the gallery of
130 families would like to leading members and
leave for Israel, but invita- cooperators of the illegal
Hidden Wire Installation
Central Committee ofthe
tions are all intercepted.
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