16 Friday, April 22, 1977
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Mikhail Shtern to Live in U.S.
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nounced that he plans to-
settle in the United States.
Shtern was arrested in
1974 for allegedly accepting
bribes from patients for
drugs after he refused to
block applications by his
sons Victor and August to
emigrate to Israel. Soviet
law requires the con-
firmation of parents for
their adult children who
want to emigrate.
Meanwhile, Dr. Nahum
Salansky, a leading Jewish
activist of Vilna, had his
exit visa revoked after he
received formal permission
to emigrate to Israel to join
his ailing mother, Ida Sa-
lansky, it was reported by
the National Conference on
Soviet Jewry and the Great-
er New York Conference on
Soviet Jewry. He had been
expected to leave the Soviet
Union Tuesday.
It also was reported that
Dr. Iosif Begun, a Soviet
Jewish activist, is expected
to go on trial shortly for
being without a job despite
the fact the activist had
earned a living giving pri-
vate Hebrew and mathemat-
ics lessons.
In Waltham, Mass., stu-
dents from about 100 east-
ern colleges and univer-
sities, led by Hillel mem-
bers from Brandeis and
American Universities,
staged a rally in Washing-
ton Wednesday to support
the struggle of Soviet Jews.
In London, the wife of
Anatoly Sharansky led
more than 3,000 people to
the Soviet Embassy last
week to deliver a letter ap-
pealing for the release of
her husband, held in a Mos-
cow jail after being ac-
cused. of espionage against
the Soviet Union.
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Student Struggle for Soviet
Jewry is planning legal ac-
tion against Shea's Theater
after the hall removed a
prepaid full-page SSSJ ad
from its program and secu-
rity guards attacked youth-
ful demonstrators during a
performance of the Osipov
Balalaika Orcheatra.
Shea's management or-
dered its ushers to remove
the ad for Kishiven refuse-
nik Galina Oronova, an or-
cheatra leader, which was
contracted to run in each
program during the thea-
ter's season, and for which
the students had prepaid
$300. When the Shea's secu-
rity director told the SSSJ
at the beginning of the per-
formance that it had with-
drawn a verbal agreement
to permit the distribution of
Soviet Jewry literature in-
side the hall, the youths
took a huge "Let My
People Go" banner to their
seats and hung it from the
balcony.
Theater security officers,
who are off-duty policemen,
then attacked the students.
Several patrons walked out
in protest against the at-
tack.
In New York, a leading
Soviet emigre artist
charged that the exhibition
of Russian paintings at the
Metropolitan Museum of
Art was a "lie" because it
showed Russian art that
could not be seen in the So-
viet Union or was no longer
permitted to be done there.
Ernst Neizvestny, re-
garded as the most impor-
tant Soviet visual artist to
quit the USSR since Kan-
dinsky and Chagall, said
the Russian paintings in the
Metropolitan Museum exhib-
it were "designed for for-
eign consumption — like
the stores in Moscow where
foreign citizens with foreign
currency can buy caviar
that the people cannot.
"The modern Russian
paintings in the Metropol-
itan Museum shown under
the official auspices of the
Soviet Ministry of Culture
are either by artists who
are dead—such as Drevin,
who died in a Stalin prison
camp—or by living artists
like Plavinsky and Kandau-
rov, whose works have
never before been officially
exhibited in the USSR.
What you see in the Metro-
politan is a lie."
It was learned that Rus-
sia expelled a Philadelphia
lawyer and his wife after Zi-
onist leaflets, handbills and
"appeals" were found in
their suitcases. About 25
Americans were thrown out
of the USSR in the past two
years for carrying liter-
ature that the Soviets con-
sider subversive.
Arab Land Fever
TEL AVIV (ZINS)—
There has been a boom in
Jewish land buying in the
administered areas of Shom-
ron and Judea. According
to local newspapers the
land boom has even re-
sulted in some swindling.
In areas where the buy-
ing is heaviest investors be-
lieve Jewish settlements
will be established, despite
most Middle East peace for-
mulas calling- for Israel to
return the administered
areas to the Arabs.
Boris Smolar's
'Between You
. and Me'
Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
_
(Copyright 1977, JTA, Inc.)
"FORWARD" AT 80: No Jewish newspaper in the
world—and even few of the general press—can boast exist-
ence of 80 years. The Jewish Daily Forward, the Yiddish
paper published in New York, can. It celebrates its 80th
birthday this week.
The Forward is the only Yiddish daily appearing in the
U.S. The Yiddish daily newspaper in Israel—Letzte Nyes-
is edited by Mordecai Tsanin, the Forward correspondent
in Israel.
The Forward grew from strength to strength under the
editorship of Abraham Cahan who was not only a great edi
tor but also a man who understood the needs of the immf
grant Jewish masses. He helped organize immigrant Jew s
into labor unions to improve their lot. At the same time,
he was deeply interested in seeing them more American-
ized.
Soon the Forward became the trusted and favorite
organ of the Jewish masses, reaching a circulation of
about 250,000. But before reaching this high point the For-
ward struggled hard for its existence.
I remember the years when a part of the Forward in-
come came from "Forward Balls"—huge balls held in
Madison Square Garden in New York and in the Coliseum
in Chicago, supplementing the income that the paper had
from advertisements and its sale on the newsstands. At
these balls, the adherents of the Forward, in the tens of
thousands, not only paid admission but made also in-
cognito contributions in cash. Many women in the au-
diences donated their golden earrings and wedding rings.
The income from circulation and advertising grew to a
point where the paper was in a position to erect its For-
ward Building, the tallest on East Broadway, which be-
came a landmark and important center of Jewish activi-
ties. Later, the Forward was also in a position to acquire a
radio station—WEVD—which the paper still owns. The For-
ward balls continued for about two decades as a tradition
but the income from these balls was donated by the paper
to various Jewish causes.
***
DEVOTION OF READERS: The devotion of the read-
ers of the Forward to their paper is deep even today.
Seeking funds to cover its deficit and to strengthen its
financial position, the Forward last year issued a call for
$250,000 in the hope that a good part of this sum would be
forthcoming from national and local Jewish organizations
served for decades by the paper with unpaid publicity and
editorially. However, the anticipated aid from this source
did not come. It did come from the needle-trade labor
unions which the Forward helped to establish, and from
readers. From thousands of readers. As a result, the For-
ward campaign exceeded its $250,000 goal. The same was
repeated this year.
***
THE "FORWARD" TRADITION: Numerous books in
English have been published in this country on Abraham
Cahan and on the Forward, stressing the impact of the
paper and the personality of its editor.
The tradition of Abraham Cahan in the Forward was
carried on by his successor Hillel Rogoff, also a brilliant
editor. It is being carried on today by Simon Weber, the
able journalist and editor who started his career in the For-
ward years ago as city editor.
The paper sold its imposing 11-story building on East
Broadway a few years ago. It moved to the Workmen's
Circle Building in the very center of New York, in the vi-
cinity of the New York Public Library.
In Israel there is a settlement named "Forward" in
recognition of the support the paper has given to the Jew-
ish state even before its establishment, following a visit
made by Cahan to Palestine in the 1920s. The Histadrut,
the Israel Labor Federation, has established a library in
Tel Aviv bearing Cahan's name.
Syria Foreign Minister Meets
With Carter, Vance on M.E.
WASHINGTON (JTA)—In
an unexpected Middle East
development, the State De-
partment and the Syrian
government announced that
Syrian Foreign Minister
Abdal-Halim Khaddam is in
Washington for meetings
with President Carter and
Secretary of State Cyrus
Vance.
His visit is at the in-
vitation of Vance and will
be part of the "continuing
discussions of their efforts
for a just and lasting
peace" in the Mideast, the
State Department said.
Syrian President Hafez
Assad met with Russian
leaders in Moscow this
week.)
The Damascus announce-
ment of his trip said it was
concerned with - political
and diplomatic efforts re-
lated to the Middle East
question."
If a disgrace has attached
to you, be the first to fte-
clare it.
—Baba Kama 92.