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Rogers Sees Harassment, Plight of Refuseniks
Jerry Rogers, chairman
of the Detroit Committee
for Soviet Jewry, managed
to meet with a number of
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Russian Jewish "refuse
niks" while in the USSR in
recent weeks with his wife,
Jackie.
Rogers said he and his
wife spent four hours in
customs because they had
"an excessive number of
luach (calendars)" in their
luggage. The Russian
agents confiscated the
luach, several Magen Da-
yids and several Hebrew
books which were called
"offensive to the Soviet
Union."
Rogers and his wife man-
aged to get a number of
items to the refuseniks, who
they described as warm,
brave people under tre-
mendous pressure from the
Russian government.
The Rogerses visited the
synagogues in Moscow,
Kiev and Leningrad. He
said most of the worship-
pers go to meet foreigners
"so that they can send mes-
sages to relatives in the
West."
Many • refuseniks, Rogers
said, were placed under
house arrest just before and
after their visit because of
two attemps to petition the
Soviet Presidium to find out
why the refuseniks have
been denied exit visas.
Rogers added that every
refusenik he talked to said
that he or she had been
fired from their jobs afer
applying to emigrate to Is-
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rael, and that they are con-
tinually harassed.
-Rogers met with Vladimir
Slepak, one of the leading
refusniks, who told him that
Western pressure must be
applied to the Soviet govern-
ment. Slepak also said that
the number of Hebrew
books and religious articles
brought in by Western tour-
ists had been drastically
curtailed since the U.S.
State Department issued a
new brochure on travel to
the Soviet Union.
Rogers says the brochure
contains several paragraph
explaining that the Soviet
Union is detaining or expell-
ing travelers who attempt to
bring in "Zionist" mate-
rials.
Rogers says the Union of
Councils for Soviet Jews has
filed a complaint with the
State Department over the
brochure.
Readers Forum
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rect, Aaron Sneolander
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Menorah Society Memories
Editor, The Jewish News:
Reading your editorial
about "The New Hillel Cen-
ter" in the Oct. 21 Jewish
News was especially memo-
rable for me.
In 1922, during my under-
graduate days in Ann Arbor
I was president of the Men-
orah Society (forerunner of
Hillel). My one noteworthy
accomplishment was a de-
bate which I managed to
arrange between UM Men-
orah and some Jewish stu-
dents at Ohio State. The
subject : "Is political Zion-
ism feasible?"
My father, an Orthodox
rabbi, held strong con-
victions about Religious Zi-
onism — ONLY. The idea of
a political state of Israel
was anti-God to him.
We discussed the idea sev-
eral times at Chubb's - our
eating place - on State St.
"That should make an ex-
cellent subject for a de-
r
Engagements
)
Mrs. Pauline Seigel of
Brooks Ln., Southfield, and
Mr. Mel Fine of Miami,
Fla., announce the engage-
ment of their daughter, Les-
ley Fine, to Michael Ar-
faras, son of Mrs. Joanne
Taylor and Mr. Nick Ar-
faras of Bloomington, Ill. A
September wedding is
planned.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fel-
dman announce the engage-
ment of their daughter
Maralyn Feldman to Steven
Averbuch, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Isadore Averbuch. A
winter wedding is planned.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Gunsberg of Southfield an-
nounce the engagement of
their daughter, Shoshana
Ruth Gunsberg to Solomon
Peretz Lachman, son of Dr.
and Mrs. Philip E. Lach-
man of- Birmingham. Miss
Gunsberg was graduated
from the Fashion Institute
of Technology in New York
City. Her fiance was gradu-
ated from Bowling Green
State University with an
MFA degree. A July wed-
ding is planned.
bate" suggested law student
Harry Hartman. Evidently I
went to work on the sugges-
tion.
When I discussed this con-
flict with several prospec-
tive judges for the debate,
they gladly accepted the as-
signment. The judges were:
Prof. Paul Blanshard of the
Philosophy Department;
Prof. I.L. Sharfman, the
noted economist; Samuel C.
Mtunford, then comptroller
of the Edison Co. and mem-
ber of the Detroit Board of
Education.
The Michigan team chose
the affirmative and won the
debate easily, thereby es-
tablishing — prophetically
— the feasability of the Zi-
onist state of Israel 25 years
later.
In winning the debate we
won a beautiful, 15-inch
high, gold-plated loving cup
offered by Cong. Shaarey
Zedek at the request of the
revered Rabbi A.M. Hersh-
man.
Dr. Edward Robbins
Los Angeles
U.S. Envoy Visits
Truman Institute
JERUSALEM—U.S.
Ambassador Samuel Lewis
visited the Harry S. Truman
Institute on the Hebrew Uni-
versity's Mount Scopus
campus in Jerusalem
recently, in preparation for
the May, 1978 International
Conference on Truman's
Policy in the Middle East.
The conference, timed to
coincide with Truman's
birthday and with the 30th
anniversary of his recogni-
tion of the state of Israel,
will be highlighted by the
opening of the Truman
Memorial, a multi-media
exhibit on President Tru-
man and Israel to be
mounted on the upper floor
of the Truman Institute.
Every two minutes a
newborn is denied a
healthy birth, says the
National Foundation-
March of Dimes. The
volunteer • health
agency's goal is the pre-
vention of birth defects.