Friday, lee 23, 1978 21 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Mrs. Jacobson Charges HIAS Misrepresented Dulzin NEW YORK (JTA) — Terming press statements by HIAS purporting to rep- resent World Zionist Or- ganization chairman Leon Dulzin's views on the drop- out question as "mislead- ing," Mrs. Charlotte Jacob- son, chairman. of the WZO-American Section, said that such reports are a "disservice" to world Jewry and to the heroic struggle of Soviet Jewry for the right to go on aliya to Israel. Mrs. Jacobson referred to Dulzin's presentation at a recent meeting of the Con- ference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, of the prob- lem of Soviet Jews who left the Soviet Union with Is- raeli visas and then "drop- ped out" upon arrival in Vienna, and went to other countries. Dulzin did "no more or less than place before the American Jewish leader- ship a burning issue which, unless solved or amelior- ated, places in jeopardy the future of the struggle of Soviet Jewry for aliya," she said. Dulzin had not raised this issue in terms of the interests of any particu- lar Jewish organization but rather "as a world Jewish problem fraught with historic consequ- ences" for the future of the Jewish people, Jacobson said. She pointed out that if the drop-out rate should rise, as it may, to 70 percent or 80 percent of the Jews who leave the USSR, it will "un- dermine the heroic struggle of the Soviet Jewish ac- tivists who are basing their entire claim on the right to go to the Jewish homeland in Israel." Mrs. Jacobson said that Dulzin had informed the Presidents Conference that to leave the situation as it is could bring about a 7cates- Canadian Hits Anti-Boycott Act OTTAWA (JTA) — Fed- eral Trade Minister Jack Homer has told the House of Commons that the gov- ernment will not yield to demands by Canadian Jewish organizations to adopt anti-boycott legisla- tion because "it might jeopardize trade with Arab states." Horner said, "The gov- ernment has to treat the middle way. If we please the Canadian-Israel Commit- tee then we , harm our chance of doing trade with the Arab states," he said. The Canada-Israel Com- mittee charged in a com- munique released June 7 that Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau was "not protecting the civil rights of all Canadians, permitting the infringement of Cana- dian sovereignty and per- mitting foreign govern- ments to restrict Canadian trading opportunities. " • — . • • - trophe in the struggle for the freedom of Soviet Jewry," and that those "who try to make this a `diaspora-Israel conflict are doing a great disservice to the Jewish people." Referring to a recent statement by Carl Glick, president of HIAS, that Dulzin believes that the choice for Soviet Jews should be to stay in the USSR or go to Israel, Mrs. Jacobson said that Dulzin never made such a state- ment nor does he believe this. Meanwhile, HIAS, the world-wide Jewish im- migrant aid agency, as- sisted 3,182 Jewish re- fugees in finding new homes in the United States and other Western countries during the first quarter of this year, Gaynor I. Jacobson, execut4ve vice president of WAS reported. He said the figure rep- resented a nine percent increase over the same period in 1977. them — comprising 2764 persons — from the Soviet Union, a 13 percent in- crease over 1977. In London, Dulzin prop- osed that immigrants to Is- rael should be cared for in the future by ajoint author- ity of the Jewish Agency and the Absorption Minis- try as a way to end the longstanding friction bet- ween these two bodies. Under the plan, which is currently being consi- dered by Premier Begin, the new authority would be headed by the Absorp- tion Minister but the Jewish Agency would have day to day respon- sobility for dealing with absorption problems. The ministry would be responsible for coor- dinating housing, educa- tion and jobs for the new- comers, Dulzin told a press conference here. In Washington, Rep. Joshua Eilberg (D-Pa.) has disclosed that the United States will grant entry to an additional 12,000 Soviet re- According to Jacobson, fugees, most of them Jews, 2823 refugees came to the many now waiting in Rome United States, 98 percent of to come to this country. Bnai Zion Urges Members Counter-Protest at Skokie MONTICELLO, N.Y. velopments in Skokie (JTA) — Bnai Zion, the were being watched by American Zionist fraternal "sinister international order, at its 69th annual forces" and that the lack convention adopted a resol- of a proper Jewish re- ution urging its members to sponse could signal go to Skokie, Ill., Sunday for ominous consequences. a counter-demonstration He rejected the claim against a planned march by that the Nazis have a a group of American Nazis Constitutional right to in that heavily Jewish- march in Skokie, declar- populated suburb. ing "This issue was that The 500 delegates elected of a perversion of the Paul Safro, of Lawrence, Constitution." N.Y., president of Bnai Another speaker, Allard Zion, which enters its Lowenstein, U.S. Represen- tative to the United Nations jubilee year. He succeeded Rabbi Wil- Human Rights Commis- liam Berkowitz of Cong. sion, called on the Jewish Bnai Jeshurun in New community to continue York. In his valedictory ad- fighting for human rights dress, Rabbi Berkowitz throughout the world. Low- exhorted the Jewish corn- enstein urged faith in the munity to drop its timidity UN despite its apparent and "join en masse" what he failings. termed the gallant but few Jewish organizations that Neo-Nazis Caught will be going to Skokie. PARIS (JTA) — French °. He warned that de- police are questioning a 40-year-old French antique dealer, Francois Hamon, suspected of having or- NEW YORK (JTA) — ganized a neo-Nazi meeting Leon Dulzin, chairman of last weekend in a provincial the World Zionist Organize- -city. Hamon was arrested tion Executive, underwent Saturday night when local surgery here for the relief of police were called to dis- an ulcer condition and has perse a "gathering of some 15 postponed his return to Is- youths who wore Nazi-type rael, a spokesman for the uniforms and sang Nazi WZO American Section an- songs. nounced. The police found 15 He said that Dulzin, who youngsters, dressed in Nazi is acting chairman of the uniforms. Six were Bel- Jewish Agency Executive, gians, six Swiss and two is resting comfortably and French. The group told the his condition is reported as police that they belonged to satisfactory. The spokes- a pan-European association man said that the forthcom- and claimed that their sa ing meeting of the Jewish lutes, which looked like the Agency Assembly and the old Nazi "heils" were only session of the Zionist Gen- "the Olympic greeting." eral Council will both take They denied being Nazis place in Jerusalem as but were briefly detained by scheduled. the police for questioning. •- • • • • ' Dulzin Is Lima Jewish Leaders Voice Concern Over Top Issues NNE.' WASHINGTON (JTA) Jewish community leaders, attending the quarterly meeting of the Council of Jewish Federations (CJF) in Washington were urged to speak out strongly on is- sues that concern them. The strength of local Jewish activity is "one ele- ment the Arabs can never match," Albert Chernin, executive vice chairman of the National Jewish Com- munity Relations Advisory Council (NJCRAC) stres- sed. He said the Jewish community must state its position in such a way as to include others in American society "who may agree with our positions." Mark Talisman, director of the CJF's Washington of- fice, said that if Jewish groups are silent, they create a vacuum in Washington which other experienced groups are ready to fill. "You have no- thing to fear from exercis- ing this government," he said. "Citizenship is a full time occupation. You get exactly the government you deserve." SEMI- ANNUAL 20 TO 70% OFF Now! For a limited time only. A selected group of Fine Suits, Dress Shirts. Sport Coats and Sport Shirts are going on Sale. Hurry while the selection is great and the bargains are terrific: bran, Jay Berman, a public relations consultant, said that the American public has to be sensitized to realize the closeness be- tween American and Is- raeli interests as the 1980 Presidential election ap- proaches. - es • • ,eP - 3--- r- • . • Rt_,..n • Dc-- • %. • Any If President Carter puts forward a Middle East peace plan inimical to Israel, Jews should be in "the same posi- tion" as in 1975 when Con- gress voiced disapproval over the "reassessment" of American Mideast policy by President Ford and Secret- ary of State Henry Kis- singer, he said. , - re Esmail to Appeal JERUSALEM — Attor- ney Felicia Langer an- nounced Tuesday that she would appeal the remaining nine months of the 15- month sentence imposed on Michigan State University student Sami Esmail for being a memberpf the Popu- lar Front for the Liberation of Palestine. EVERGREEN PLAZA AT 12 MILE RD. 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