THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Refusnik and Family Reunited in U.S.
Friday; June 22, 1919 23
Moynihan Blames Russians
for UN Zionism Resolution
CHICAGO (JTA) — A of Jewish emigrants from
seven-year struggle for the Soviet Union to Is-
LONDON (JTA) — Sen. adoption by the General
perL , ission to leave the rael.
Daniel P. Moynihan (D— Assembly, in the face of
Dulzin said he sees the
Soviet Union ended with
NY), the former U.S. Am- opposition by Western
the joyous, tearful reunion neshira problem as "a na-
bassador to the United Na- countries, its influence
of Leningrad refusnik Felix tional calamity," the re-
tions, last week accused the was still spreading,
Aronovich with his family sponsibility for which must
Soviet Union of being be- Moynihan claimed.
at O'Hare International be shared by the whole
hind the campaign which
He noted that association
Jewish people.
Airport in Chicago.
culminated in the 1975 UN with Zionism was one of the
"Today," he said, "there is
Greeted by his wife, Alla,
resolution equating charges against two men re-
who left the USSR in 1976, no such thing as a Jewish
Zionism with racism.
cently executed in Iran.
their three-year-old son refugee. A refugee means
The resolution was in- Moynihan himself was re-
David whom he had never someone who has nowhere
spired by an article appear- cently described by an In-
seen, his mother, Lubov to go. But today all Soviet
ing in Pravda, the Soviet dian newspaper as "a
Dinenzon and his brother, Jewish emigrants have Is-
Communist Party news- Zionist racist scorpion."
Victor, Aronovich smiled raeli visas — and Israel is
paper, on Feb. 18-19, 1971,
ready to absorb them and
nd wept as they embraced.
he said.
t416R-
Also at the airport to Bassist them."
Four years after the
A "Joseph Mendelevich Counterexhibit" by the anti-Zionist resolution's
"My position therefore
share in the family's joy
Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry greeted the Met-
were representatives of the is," Dulzin said, "that while
• Lost Weight?
Jewish United Fund (JUF) %-there is of course no way of ropolitan Museum of Art's heralded "Treasures From Army Criticized
• Gained Weight?
of Chicago, State Attorney forcing an emigrant to go to the Kremlin" display. The SSSJniks are joined by the
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
• Whatever ...
Bernard Carey and Jean Israel, and while he is obvi- prisoner of conscience's sister and brother-in-law, The recent State Comptrol-
Bring it in and
Merle, an aide of Rep. Sid- ously free to go wherever he Rivka and -Chaim Drori, visiting from Israel, at the ler's report which was criti-
we'll
make it fit.
exhibit.
wishes,
if
he
chooses
to
go
ney Yates (D-I11.).
cal of the Israeli armed
Men's & Women's Clothing
Yates, Sen. Charles Percy elsewhere than to Israel, he
forces
claimed
that
21
of
the
oners of conscience," the emigration and should not
(R-Ill.) and Carey had been should do so on his own re-
27 tanks damaged when Is-
refusniks, the Jackson- be modified."
FINE MEN'S CLOTHING FOR 43 YEARS
sponsibility,
by
himself.
He
instrumental in advancing
raeli troops crossed into
However,
it
said,
"should
Vanik
Amendment
itself,
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Aronovich's efforts to secure should not be assisted to do
Lebanon
in
March
1978
Next to Dunkin' Donuts
anti-Semitism in the the rate of emigration con-
an exit visa. They worked so by the Jewish people for
we damaged because or-
Surl.11-4
Daily to 6 Thurs. to 8
tinue
to
improve,
should
the
Soviet
Union,
Jewish
cul-
closely with David Smerl- he is not a refugee."
ders were not followed.
tural
and
religious
rights
Soviet
government
now
free
Dulzin was referring here
ing, president of the JUF
the remaining 'prisoners of
and the Jewish federation, to the core of the neshira in the Soviet Union and
conscience' and allow the re-
the
future
of
monitoring
James P. Rice, executive issue as it preoccupies Israel
fusniks and their families to
vice president and the and U.S. Jewish leaders: the of Soviet Union and the
future of monitoring of emigrate, and should
JUF's public affairs com- aid rendered by the two vet-
eran Jewish refugee organ- Soviet human rights be- President Carter receive
mittee.
Disc Jockey
the assurances that meet
Their efforts also izations, HIAS and the havior.
the
test
of
the
exiting
helped expedite U.S. Joint Distribution Commit-
The NCSJ, which em-
Disco
entry requirements so tee (JDC), to Soviet Jewish bodies 38 American Jewish waiver provisions of the law
including implementa-
that Aronovich, who left emigrants arriving in Vie- national groups, said it —
tion
of
emigration
proce-
Parties, Dances & Special Occasions
the Soviet Union on May nna who "dropout," i.e., go would closely monitor viola-
14, was able to fly directly to the U.S. or Canada rather tions and will document dures free from harassment
the USSR may receive
from Vienna to Chicago, than to Israel. "The very them and present them to —
the
trade benefits it seeks
avoiding lengthy proc- fact that he is being assisted the Helsinki Commission in
on an annual basis as per-
essing in Rome. In that in this way," says Dulzin, advance of the HelSinki con-
mitted by the law."
endeavor they had the "is itself an indirect ference in Madrid next year.
close cooperation of encouragement to him not
The monitoring results
to go to Israel."
HIAS.
also
will be presented to the
Meanwhile, President
He also deplored the fact U.S. government and the
Carter was asked by 57
leading Israeli public fig- that most Jewish emigrants American people. In addi-
...aerMt§. a•
ures to appeal to President from Iran and Latin Ameri- tion, the statement said the
Leonid Brezhnev of the can countries preferred to NCSJ will expand efforts to
JEWELERS
Soviet Union on behalf of settle elsewhere. Similarly, "mobilize and involve every
segment
of
this
nation"
in
he
said,
"a
fair
number
of
Bgit gkin y cSinct 4 1 Gitsal4
imprisoned dissident
Anatoly Shcharansky. They Jews in the African conti- this campaign.
LAWRENCE M. ALLAN President
Norman Man
expressed concern that he nent feel the ground is burn-
The NCSJ is "very con-
ing
beneath
their
feet.
But
may not survive conditions
cerned while Soviet Jews
1/1-6,"icajl - (gleibmowk+leid
at he Chistopol prison camp, instead of making aliya to are being sent some 16,000
Israel,
they
take
up
the
staff
where he is being held, and
affidavits each month from
that his health has seri- of the wanderer and head Israel, the number permit-
for
Dallas,
Texas."
ously deteriorated.
In Washington, the Na- ted to leave does not corre-
In a related development,
tional
Conference on Soviet spond to the number wish-
Prof. Alexander Tiemkin of
ing to leave."
Tel Aviv University has Jewry (NCSJ) closed its an-
nual
policy
conference
with
Jackson-
Regarding
learned that his daughter
Marina, still trapped in a statement of principles Vanik, the policy statement
Moscow since her 1973 kid- that did not suggest any said the NCSJ believes the
napping, will be removed serious departure from legislation "provides an
BEAUTIFUL JEWELRY TO REMEMBER...
from the city during the existing conference policy adequate framework for
summer evidently to pre- on the U.S. outlook toward encouraging further Soviet
• ANNIVERSARIES • BIRTHDAYS
vent her from establishing the Soviet Union and the performance in the area of
• SPECIAL OCCASIONS •
contacts with her paternal Jackson-Vanik Amend-
ment.
OR
JUST A SPECIAL PERSON...
Haifa: Target
grandmother or foreign
The policy statement",
tourists, according to the
of Aborted
Established 1919
Student Struggle for Soviet which followed ad-
dresses
today
by
Sens.
Sea Attack
GEMOLOGIST • DIAMONTOLOGIST
-Jewry.
Edward Kennedy (D-
TEL AVIV (JTA) —
In JerUsalem, Premier Mass.) John Heinz (R-
• WE ALSO FEATURE FIK.JEWELRY &
Menahem Begin and World Pa.), and Rep. Charles Haifa, Israel's largest sea-
NAME BRAND WATCHES
Zionist Organization Vanik (D-Ohio), took port, was the intended
• DIAMOND INVESTMENT COUNSELING
chairman Leon Dulzin have cognizance of the emigra- target of a gang of seaborne
• COMPLETE WATCH & JEWELRY REPAIR
summoned a special meet- tion flow, Jewish "pris- terrorists from Lebanon
DONE ON THE PREMISES
whose motorboat was inter-
ing of Jewish organization
* *
cepted and sunk by Israeli
leaders to discuss the issue
• CUSTOM DESIGNING & RESTYLING
naval units earlier this
of "neshira" — the dropping Attend Parley
• DIAMOND IMPORTERS & EXPORTERS
month, according to Gen.
out of Soviet Jewish emi-
WE'LL PAY IMMEDIATE CASH FOR
Yehoshua Saguy, Chief of
grants to countries other on Soviet Jewry
YOUR UNWANTED PRECIOUS GEMS AND JEWELRY
Steve Shaw, community Intelligence.
than Israel. The neshira
The motorboat carried
Hours: Daily til 5:30 Sat. By AppointMent
rate is currently at close to affairs associate of the
Jewish Community Coun- Katyusha rocket launchers
70 percent.
The meeting will con- cil, and rabbi Efry Spectre, which, Saguy said, were to
, vene in Jerusalem later spiritual leader of Adat have been placed on a raft in
this month, coinciden- Shalom Synagogue, were in Haifa Bay with rockets
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tally with the Jewish Washington recently to timed to fire on the city after
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AT 121/2 Mile SUITES 104/134
Agency Assembly, and attend the annual policy the boat escaped.
Awarded Certificate By GIA
The
four
terrorists
were
Dulzin says he hopes it meetings of the National
in Grading & Evaluation
will decide on "serious Conference on Soviet killed in the encounter with
the
Israeli
navy.
Jewry.
steps" to redirect the flow
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