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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Bnai Brith Activities I
Bnai Brith Women Honor
Esther Allan at Special Lunch
Esther Allan,' center, received the Bnai Pirith Wo-
men's Children's Home in Israel Book of Life Celtificate
at the recent Bnai Brith Women's Council annual special
gifts luncheon. Mrs: Allan was honored "for her dona-
tion to be used in establishing a music room" at the
children's home. Shown with her are, from left: Ida
Stein, luncheon chairman; Norman Allan; Mrs. Allan;
Sylvia Ross, fund-raising vice president; and Rhea
Rowe, president of the women's council.
Friday, January 14, 1977 41
Soviet Jewish Activist's Trial Awaitin
NEW YORK (JTA) —
The trial of Vladimir
Sverdlin, a Leningrad
Jewish activist charge
with possession of am-
munition in his home, is
scheduled to open this
week, the Student Strug-
gle for Soviet Jewry and
the Union of Councils for
Soviet Jewry reported.
They said Sverdlin, a
construction engineer
who has been out of work
since applying for an exit
visa, may also be charged
with "parasitism."
The organizations said
that two appeals to
"world public opinion"
have been signed by
Leningrad Jews who
characterized the trial as
the "latest in a chain of
persecutions" aimed at
stifling Jewish culture in
the USSR. Sverdlin is the
founder of the Shalom
Club, an informal group,
which meets each Satur-
day to discuss Jewish cul-
ture.
The SSSJ and the UCSJ
also reported that another
Leningrad activist,
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Michael Kazanevich, re-
DETROIT LODGE AND
Defamation League, and ceived a "last warning"
DETROIT LODGE
his associates. Discussion that he could face a two-
CHAPTER will hold a will follow. All are wel- year prison sentence for
combined meeting 8 p.m. come. Refreshments will "parasitism" or be con-
fined to a mental institu-
Wednesday in the Labor be served.
* * *
tion.
Zionist Institute. The
L'CHAYIM LODGE will
program. will feature a
In Moscow, the Soviet
wine-and cheese-tasting have its games night fund
party, followed by an orig- raiser 8 p.m. Feb. 12 at news agency Tass com-
inal revue, "Music Cong. Bnai David. There plained that sentences
Medelach, Please," pre- will be games and prizes. handed out by an Ameri-
sented by the chapter. There is a charge. For in- can court to five militant
Refreshments will be formation, call Marshall Jews who attacked Soviet
buildings in New York
served. There is a nomi- Burstein, 398-9497. A
* * *
were too lenient and said
nal charge, and guests
are invited.
ALBERT EINSTEIN U.S. authorities were re-
* * *
CHAPTER will hold an sponsible for the inci-
CENTENNIAL CHAP- auction -8:30 p.m. Wed- dents.
TER, will meet 12:15 p.m. nesday, at the Zionist
A federal court in New
Tuesday in the home of Cultural 'Center. Guests
Judy Weiner, 31 . 924 Olde are invited. Refresh- York sentenced the five,
all members of the Jewish
Franklin Dr.,
Dr. Far- ments will be served.
* * *
Defense League, to jail
mington Hills.
luncheon, a rumor clinic
MARSHALL - SUBUR- for terms of up to six
will be presented. Pros- BAN LODGE will hear a years.
pective members are in- talk on "Russian Jewry"
In a related develop-
vited. For information or by. Victor Herman 6:30
reservations, contact p.m. Tuesday at the Red ment, Gaynor Jacobson,
Barbara Coden, 358-3983. Cedars Restaurant. For executive vice president
* * *
dinner reservations, call of HIAS, responding to a
DETROIT BUSINESS Carl Pearl, VE 8-5384. complaint by Uzi Narkiss,
director general of the
AND PROFESSIONAL There is a charge.
_Jewish Agency's aliya
CHAPTER will meet at 8
department, said that
p.m. Tuesday in the
HIAS has never em-
Whitehall Apts. club
house. A film-strip enti- Named to Board ployed Soviet Jewish
tled, "Christians and
Attorney Paul Sislin dropouts for operational
Jews — A Troubled : has been elected presi- work in its Vienna office.
Brotherhood,I. will be dent of the West Bloom-
presented by Norman field Township Library
Narkiss said that he had
Michlin, vice chairman of Board. Sislin has been a demanded, in an exchange
the Michigan regional member of the board of letters with Jacobson,
board of the Anti- since 1974 and is its that. I-HAS discharge "a
number" of Soviet Jewish
former treasurer.
dropouts working in the
Center Seniors
HIAS office in Vienna and
sponsor Film . Meeting on Cancer that
he had been informed
that there had been sev-
The Senior Adult De-
The
next
American
eral cases in which the fact
partment of the Jewish
Community Center will Cancer Society "Living that dropouts were em-
present "A Brivele Der With Cancer" program ployed by HIAS in the
Marren," a full-length will be held 7:30 p.m. "processing" of other
Yiddish film, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Fireside dropouts from Vienna to
Jan. 23, and 1 p.M. Jan. 24 Lounge of the First Pre- Rome had had a "nega-
at the Center's -10 Mile sbyterian Church of Bir- tive" effect.
mingham, 1669 W. Maple.
Branch.
Brivele Der Ma- Cancer patients and rela-
Jacobson said that he
men," the last Yiddish tives are welcome.
had cabled Narkiss on
film made in Poland be-
Jan. 4 that there were two
fore the Nazi invasion, is
female dropouts pres-
Israeli
Deficit
the sentimental tale of a
ently working in the
European mother's ef- On the Increase
HIAS Vienna office, both
forts to prevent her fam-
of them assigned solely to
JERUSALEM (ZINS) typing out forms required
ily from being torn apart
— Israel's debts in by Austrian and Italian
by war and jealousies.
There is a charge. For foreign currency in- officials for movement of
information, call the creased by $1 billion in the Soviet Jews from Vie-
Senior Adult Depart- 1976. They now total $8.6 nna to Rome.
inent; 545-8780:- - - - - - - - billion.- -
Jacobson added that, in
his cable to Narkiss ; he
had said that the women
ha,d been hired because of
their knowledge of En-
glish and Russian to fill
out the required forms
based on "our desire to
cooperate with the
Jewish Agency so that
the dropouts do not re-
main indefinitely in Vie-
nna."
Jacobson said this was
done in accordance with a
request from the Jewish
Agency, which he said
was made in 1968, that
HIAS act to move the
dropouts from Vienna to
Rome within 72 hours.
To do that, Jacobson
said, there is an "in-
dispensable minimum of
paper work" on forms for
Austrian and Italian offi-
cials and the two girls
were hired to fill out those
forms.
Jacobson - said that one
of the typists is emigrat-
ing on Jan. 10 to the
United States to rejoin
her family here and that
the second typist, who
was hired,last Dec. 27, will
, leave on Feb. 4 to join a
'brother in Sweden.
Meanwhile, a new unit-
has been mobilized at
HIAS world headquar-
ters to guide recently ar-
rived immigrants from
the Soviet Union in the
preparation of "Letters of
Invitation" to relatives
still in Russia. Soviet
Jews who wish to join
family in the U.S.,
Canada and elsewhere in
the free world could then
apply directly for the ap-
propriate visa.
During each of the past
two years the Soviet gov-
ernment has issued some
600 to 700 exit visas for
Soviet Jews based upon
letters of invitation from
the U.S.
The new "Letter of Invi-
tation Unit" at HIAS is
prepared to\ provide tech-
nical assistance to all local
Jewish family agencies
throughout the U.S. on the
proper preparation and
-
importance of these let-
ters. •
The procedure for pre-
paring and processing
letters of invitation, with
the ultimate goal an exit
visa for a Soviet Jewish
family, is complex. The
Soviet system of emigra-
tion is based on this invi-
tation for family reunion
letter (vysov) which is
presented by a prospec-
tive emigrant to local
Soviet authorities (ovir).
This differs from the pat-
tern in other countries
where a prospective
emigrant can apply on his
or her own initiative for a
passport and exit visa.
The ovir may take three
to six months to reach a
decision on a letter of in-
vitation arriving from the
U.S. The format for these
letters has been pre-
scribed by the USSR, and
HIAS is cautioning all
cooperating agencies
that it must be followed
precisely to insure the
possibility of a favorable.
response.
In order to keep posted
on the flow of, letters of
invitation to the Soviet -
Union (and the results)
all cooperating agencies
have been requested to
send HIAS a Zerox copy
of each letter they help
process.
FRANK PAUL
and His ORCHESTRA
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its Best for Your Guests"
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