28 Friday, December 8, 1918
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Katzes Arrive Safely in Boston; Prof. Levich Wins Freedom Too
BOSTON (JTA) — Boris
and Natasha Katz arrived
at Logan International Air-
port in Boston last week to-
gether with their sick one-
year-old child, Jessica, and
their 10-day-old daughter
Gabrielle.
_MARSHALL
. Former Maitre'd
With a Well Known Restaurant
at 8 Mile and Greenfield
wishes to inform all his friends
that he is available for in-house
consultation weekends only
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Call 935-2297
8 11 A.M.
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5 12 P.M.
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The family plans to join
Katz's mother and two
brothers in Cambridge. The
resettlement of the new-
comers will be the responsi-
bility of the Jewish Family
and Children's Service of
Boston, a constituent
agency of the Combined
Jewish Philanthropies of
Greater Boston.
Meanwhile, Prof. Benja-
min Levich, the highest
ranking Soviet scientist to
apply for an exit visa, left
the USSR with his wife
Tanya and arrived in Vie-
nna last week, the Commit-
tee of Concerned Scientists
(CCS) reported.
Dr. Levich's departure
capped a seven-year
campaign by the interna-
tional scientific commu-
nity, which was coordi-
nated by the CCS. Greet-
ing him in Vienna were
CCS co-chairman Dr.
Robert S. Adelstein and
the Leviches two sons,
Alexander and Evgeny
who emigrated in 1975.
In New York it was
learned that Soviet
authorities-are interrogat-
ing friends of imprisoned
Moscow dissident Mark
Morosov about Jewish ac-
tivist Lev Gendin, one of the
longest-term. refuseniks in
the USSR, and the Student
Struggle for Soviet Jewry
has expressed its "grave
concern" for the 37:year-old
engineer who has been de-
nied reunion with his wife
Aviva in Israel since 1971.
Morosov was arrested
Nov. 1, and is being held in
the Lefortovo Prison under
accusations of "anti-Soviet
activity." The witnesses in
his case are being grilled
about Gendin, who stayed
with Morosov for a short
time in early 1978.
_ Meanwhile, the one Yid-
dish magazine left in the
USSR, Soviet Homeland,
which is completely under
official control, has
launched an attack on
Minsk's leading refusenik,
Col. Lev Ovsisher, calling
him "a man of no scruples,"
interested only in "luring"
Jews into the "Zionist net"
for pay from abroad brought
by "Zionist emissaries."
Rhoda:
I must tell you this. I was in the book de-
partment at Hudson's Northland on Friday to
get a book for Roslyn. It's her birthday. As I
was looking around, my eye caught the title
of an attractive book cover with the name
Bernard Edelman. I picked up the book,
"Sidewalks Of My Mind" and believe it or not
it's the same Bernie Edelman we know. I
turned the pages and wow — it had beautiful
poetry, all artistically illustrated. I couldn't
stop reading it. Then I noticed his name on
live other books on the same display rack.
Each one was different. I couldn't decide
which one to buy. Will Roslyn be surprised to
get six books.
Elaine
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Several other activists are
also denounced, as Prof.
Alexander Lerner of Mos-
cow and Anatoly
Shcharansky, who "cer-
tainly deserved the severe
sentence meted out by the
court." The article is in the
form of a "confession" by one
Alexander Igolnikov, evi-
dently a former applicant
for exit who declares, "Luc-
kily I did not commit the
mistake others made by
leaving the country."
In Moscow, Izvestia of
Nov. 12 denounced
demonstrations by the
SSSJ, the Hebrew Insti-
tute of Riverdale and
Bnei Akiva at the Soviet
U.N. Mission and Resi-
dence as "malicious" acts
by "marauding hooli-
gans."
In Miami, Janella Gudz,
wife of Igor Gudz, a Soviet
Jew who was denied-per-
mission to emigrate with
his pregnant wife, was the
recipient of a special baby
shower protesting the sep-
aration of the couple by the
Soviet government.
Sponsoring the shower
were the Ameri -can Jewish
Congress Women's Di-
vision, Southeast Region;
and Bnai Brith Women;
Hadassah; National Coun-
cil of Jewish Women; South
Florida Conference on
Soviet Jewry; Women's
American ORT; and the
Women's Division of the
Greater Miami Jewish Fed-
eration.
The public was invited to
the shower, and a special
invitation was sent to
Soviet Ambassador Anatoly
Dobrynin, suggesting an
appropriate gift for the am-
bassador to present to Mrs.
Gudz — an exit visa for the
baby's father.
At the United Nations,
Yehuda Blum, Israel's
Ambassador to the
United Nations, accused
the Soviet Union of vio-
lating the basic human
rights of its Jewish citi-
zens, harrassing those
who wish to emigrate and
of engaging in a "virulent
anti-Semitic campaign."
Meanwhile, it was re-
ported that although there
is a large increase in the
number of Jews allowed to
leave the Soviet Union,
Jewish sources say that that
figure is not as dramatic as
it seems.
While more Jews than
ever are being allowed to
leave, the number of denials
also has grown to twice as
many as in 1977.. The suc-
cesses of those who have
been given visas-have acted
as incentives for relatives
and others still living in
Russia.
In New York, with the
help of the New York Civil
Anti-Begin Note
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
The government is trying to
find out who authored a
leaflet circulating in Israel
that accuses Prime Minister
Menahem Begin of selling
out his country "to Hitler at
the banks of the River Nile."
Revenge begets remorse.
Liberties Union, the SSSJ
has moved in State Sup-
reme Court to vacate a 1971
_injunction barring demon-
strations in the immediate
vicinity of the Soviet UN
Mission on Manhattan's
East Side.
The 48-page motion de-
clared that the injunction
was "a `meat-ax' set of
prohibitions," "substan-
tially out of step" with the
First and Fourth
Amendments. "We can-
not allow the rights of
free speech which so dis-
tinguish American from
Soviet society to be de-
nied to us as we protest
the Kremlin's oppres-
sion," a SSSJ spokesman
stated.
A parallel lawsuit
against Police Commis-
sioner Robert McGuire,
Mayor Edward Koch, and
the New York Police De-
partment has been initiated
in U.S. District Court by
Concerned Jewish Youtl
another activist group.
Flanked by paper turkeys and an appropriate sign,
a Pilgrim of yesteryear demonstrates with members
of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry at Aeroflot
Russian Airlines on behalf of the "Pilgrims of today,"
the 130 Jewish families of the remote farming village
of Ilyinja. All devout Jews, they are forcibly barred by
the Kremlin from seeking religious freedom in their
New World of Israel. A young immigrant, in the U.S.
only one month, holds a sign, "Let Them Go!" for his
friends still trapped in the USSR.
Kin of. Jailed Soviet Jew
to Speak Here Dec. 15-16
The Jewish Community
Council of Metropolitan De-
troit announces that Eva
and Lilly Butman, the wife
and 12-year-old daughter of
Soviet Jewish prisoner of
conscience Hillel Butman,
will be in Detroit Dec.
15-16.
HIL-LEL BUTMAN
Butman has been incarc-
erated in Vladimir Prison,
one of the most severe in the
Soviet Union, since 1971. At
that time, he was sentenced
to 10 years imprisonment
for allegedly distributing
literature "for the purpose
of subverting or weakening
the Soviet regime; and for
membership in an illegal,
anti-Sovietorganization."
Butman organized a
purely Zionist group in 1966
whose aim was to fight
against the assimilation of
Jews, and for immigration
to Israel for those Jews who
were interested. Hebrew,
Jewish history and aspects
of Israeli life were taught..
In what is called the
Second Leningrad Trial,
the Soviet prosecution
tied Butman's case with
those of Jews who were
arrested in 1970 for al-
legedly trying to hijack a
Soviet airplane. Al-
though it was proved in
court that Butman had no
connection with them, he
received a more severe
sentence.
Eva and Lilly Butman's
visit to this area is being
coordinated by the Jewish
Community Council of Met
ropolitan Detroit. Cc
sponsoring organizations to
date include Cong. Bnai
Moshe, Cong. Beth Shalom
and its United Synagogue
Youth group, Detroit Com-
mittee for Soviet Jewry and
Akiva Hebrew Day School.
Butman's wife and
daughter will speak at a
special assembly 1 p.m. Dec.
15 at Akiva Hebrew Day
School. At 8:30 p.m. they
will address a youth oneg
Shabat at Cong. Beth
Shalom.
They will address Cong.
Bnai Moshe during 8:45
a.m. Shabat services Dec.
16. The public is invited to
all of their appearances.