"AosioliboWiaiiiWoissorrisorooss.• 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, * * 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. 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