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NE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Bar-Ilan Academic Huppa for Max and Frieda Stollman
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the university and with
the consent of the presi-
dent, senate and board of
trustees, I take special
delight to confer upon
each of you the degree of
Doctor of Humane Let-
ters honoris cause.
"When the hoods of the
university are draped over
you it will symbolize an
academic Huppa for a lov-
ing and beloved couple.
"I am pleased to hand you
these diplomas."
Participants in the com-
mencement program in-
cluded Bar-Ilan University
President Emanuel
Rackman.
Phillip
Stollman,
brother of Max Stollman,
is global chairman of the
Bar-Ilan University
board of trustees.
Another brother, Rabbi
Isaac Stollman, formerly
of Detroit, now a resident
of Jerusalem, was among
the more than 40 mem-
bers of the Stollman fam-
ily who attended the
commencement exer-
cises.
Others who received hon-
orary Bar-Ilan University
degrees were: world
Sephardi leader Nissim
Gaon of Switzerland, Los
Angeles communal leader
Abraham Spiegel and
former Israel Supreme
Court Justice Yitzhak Kis-
ter.
ers in attendance, were 40
members of the Stollman
family. The Stollmans and
friends who made the pil-
grimage to Israel for the oc-
casion are:
Mr. and Mrs. Aaron
Ginsberg, Mr. and Mrs.
Bernard Stollman and
Karen, David and Daniel;
Dr. and Mrs. Martin Hart
and Stacey and Trevor; Mrs.
Annette Ron and Gary,
David and Lauren; Sam
For the Stollmans, na-
tionally and those in Israel,
the Bar-Ilan commence-
ment was a family event of
memorable significance. In-
cluded in the assembly of
friends, with many Detroit-
Nudel and Slepak to be 'Exiled'
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Jackson Amendment, is
of the Soviet Jewish pris- "ill-timed at best and lack-
oners of conscience, was ing in understanding of the
arrested June 2. She and thrust of Jackson's legisla-
13 other Jewish activists tion."
demonstrated against the
The SSSJ stated: "We
arrest of the Slepaks in cannot imagine how the
Pushkin Square outside USSR is to be rewarded
the apartment building with trade credits for a
where the Slepaks live.
small, artificial rise in
All 14 demonstrators - emigration figures pre-
were taken away from the cisely, at a moment when
square by police but the human rights activist
others were released ,and Yuri Orlov has been
only Nudel was charged.
harshly sentenced,
Slepak, a 50-year-old Anatoly Shcharansky
electrical engineer has been may be in the dock for his
seeking a visa to emigrate life, leading refusniks
to Israel _for eight years. He Vladimir and Maria
is a member of the group of Slepak and Ida Nudel
Soviet activists who are face imprisonment on
monitoring Moscow's com- false charges, and former
pliance with the human Prisoner of Conscience
rights provisions of the Hel- losif Begun has been re-
sinki Accords. Nudel has arrested."
also been seeking an emig-
Also on Sunday, Jewish
ration visa for eight years.
groups marked the eighth
In a telephone call to the anniversary of the arrests of
Canadian Committee for the Soviet Jews who became
Soviet Jewry in Toronto, the defendants in the first
Mrs. Slepak said that she Leningrad hijack trial of
was in intense pain from an 1970. Most are still serving
inflamed pancreas and sentences in Soviet prisons
under severe duress from or forced labor camps.
Soviet interrogators when
At the same time, Abram
she signed a false statement Balsham, , 69 and his wife,
about the incident.
Maria, 62, began a vigil at
The statement repor- the Isaiah Wall across the
tedly says the couple re- street from UN headquar-
fused to remove their ters. They are protesting
sign after repeated re- the refusal of the Soviet au-
quests and that she had thorities to grant an exit-
made threatening ges- visa to their son, Peter, and
tures, anti-Soviet com- his wife and child who live
ments and spat at the in Tashkent. When the Bal-
shams were allowed to leave
police.
Last week, former Israeli Russia in 1976, they were
Foreign Minister • Abba promised by officials that
Eban and the SSSJ
their son and his family
pealed to the Carter Ad- could follow in a few
ministration on behalf of months.
the Slepaks, and Premier
In London, more than 20
Menahem Begin made a prominent British writers
similar appeal this week.
delivered a letter to the
At his press conference Soviet Embassy appealing
last week, PreSident Carter for the release of Eduard
said he does not consider the Kuznetsov, one of the first
arrest of the Slepaks "a per- Leningrad trial defendants
sonal response" by the who is serving a 15-year
Soviet Union to his human sentence in a labor camp
rights campaign but an in- and permission for him to
dication "of whether or not join his wife, Silva Zalman-
the Soviet Union can stand son, in Israel.
internal dissension and
monitoring of its actions by Grenade Blast
private citizen groups."
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A
On Sunday, the SSSJ
charged that the American hand grenade exploded last
Jewish Congress' support of week near the National Re-
the Humphrey-Dole-Finley ligious Party headquarters
Bill, which seeks to extend in north Tel Aviv. There
agricultural trade credits to were no injuries and dam-
the USSR in defiance of the age was minor.
In Paris, a group of
Jewish community leaders,
headed by Chief Rabbi
Jacob Kaplan and Baron
Alain de Rothschild, tried
unsuccessfully to deliver a
petition to the Soviet Em-
bassy asking the release of
Kuznetsov and
Shcharansky.
Katz and Miss Edie Katz;
Dr. Leon Fill; Miss Julie
Cohen and Mr. and Mrs.
Philip Slomovitz.
Also, Mrs. Richard
-Latessa and Gabriel, Gina
and Rachel; Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Greenstone and
Brian, Peter and Andrew;
Rabbi and Mrs. Sam
Stollman; Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Hochberg and-
their daughter; Rabbi and
Mrs. James Gordon and
Phillip Stollman.
• • •
Stollman Recreation
Area in Jerusalem
Dedicated on Monday
This will be Stollman
week in Israel. In addition
to the important occasion
for them at Bar-Ilan Uni-
versity, the family will be
honored on Monday at the
dedication of the Recreation
and Camping Area in the
American Bicentennial
Park in Jerusalem.
Keren Kayemet l'Yisrael,
the Jewish National Fund,
under whose auspices the
Bicentennial Park was es-
tablished, will participate
in the dedication program.
Government leaders and
members of the Jewish
Agency for Israel are ex-
pected to be among the par-
ticipants in the dedication
of the recreation area, as
they were in the Bar-Ban
commencement program.
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