46 Friday, November 18, 1977 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
SF Pickets Demand Sharansky's Release
SAN FRANCISCO
(JTA)—Some 50 peaceful
demonstrators, demanding
amnesty and the immediate
release of Anatoly Sha-
ransky, picketed Nov. 7 at
the Palace Legion of Honor
where the 60th anniversary
of the Russian revolution
was being marked.
The _pickets represented
the American Jewish Con-
gress, the Bay Area Council
on Soviet Jewry and the
northern California Board of
Rabbis.
In Los Angeles, an exhibi-
tion titled "Soviet Jewry:
Six Decades Of Oppres-
sion," depicting Jewish life
in the Soviet Union is on dis-
play at the Los Angeles Con-
vention Center. Planned to
coincide with the Russian
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of Soviet life omitted from
the Soviet display.
The exhibit will utilize a
variety of pictorial and
graphic techniques to chron-
icle the Soviet government's
attempts to eradicate all
forms fo Jewish religious,
cultural, and national life
during the past 60 years.
In New York, members of
the Student Struggle for
Soviet Jewry and Long
Island Committee for Soviet
Jewry "celebrated" the
anniversary of the Russian
Revolution Nov. 7 with a "60
years of oppression" dem-
onstration in a driving rain
at Aeroflot Airlines Fifth
Avenue offices.
The protest focused on
two individuals the groups
said "symbolized the suffer-
ing of Jews in the USSR,
whose detention makes
mockery of the ideals of the
Revolution," Boris Tsitlo-
nak, exiled to Siberia for
five years for joining a 15-
second emigration demon-
stration in Moscow, and
Leningrad Hebrew teacher
Lev Furman, who is seeking
a visa to join his fiancee in
Israel. Tsitlonak's brother
Victor, who is visiting the
U.S., joined the Aeroflot
action, while SSSJ members
fasted with Furman's
fiancee, Ella Rabinovich, at
the Western Wall in
Jerusalem.
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The old and the new—a Hebrew text and a casette
recorder—are combined by Alexander Roizman of remote
Novosibirsk to pass on ageless Jewish traditions acquired
with great difficulty by him to his teenage sons Paul and
Leo, in a photo obtained by the Student Struggle for Soviet
Jewry. Repeatedly denied exit to Israel, Leo's recent Bar
Mitzva was celebreated for him by friends at the Western
Wall in Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, a survey con-
ducted by Michael Sher-
bourne of London for the
Union of Councils for Soviet
Jews and the SSSJ shows a
"severe and deliberate
blockage in the applicaiton
process in many cities."
In Bendery, 100 Jews are
waiting to submit docu-
ments, none of which were
accepted during the
summer.
In recent weeks, the
OVIR (emigration office)
has been open one day a
week, dealing only with two
families each time, and is
now shut down for two
months. An equal number of
families face similar har-
assment in Tiraspol, and
are verbally- abused as
"traitors" at OVIR. The
line of 240 applicants in
Kishinev grows ever-longer,
but OVIR takes only eight
families a week.
Jews in Tashkent who
successfully pass the appli-
cation hurdles must wait
three months to clear their
possessions through cus-
toms. The Jews fear that
their visas will be cancelled
during this period.
At the border twon of
Chop, emigrants exiting by
train are held up two to
three days. Since there is
only one small hotel, fami-
lies are compelled to sleep
Out in the open.
Israeli Muslims
Leave for Mecca
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A
group of Israeli Arabs have
left for Mecca in Saudi
Arabia on the first pilgri-
mage by citizens of the Jew-
ish state to the holiest
shrine of Islam. They will
tavel via Jordan and carry
temporary Jordanian pass-
ports because the Saudian
authorities will not admit
bearers of Israeli passports
regardless of their faith.
To accept tradition with-
out examining it with
intelligence and judgement
is like the blind blindly fol-
lowing others.
—"Duties of the Heart"
Meanwhile, a- week of sol-
idarity with Soviet Jewry
will be observed in 20 coun-
tries next month to coin-
cicde with Hanuka: It will
start in London- on Dec. 4
with the kindling of the first-
Hanuka light. This will be
-the signal for the kindling of
lights in Paris, New York
and Sydney, spreading to
hundreds of towns and cities
in four continents.
In Britain, the solidarity
week is being sponsored by
the National Council for
Soviet Jewry.-
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