THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
18 Friday, July 13, 1919
Jewish Agency Steps Up Drive to Urge Noshrim to Go Israel
the journey out of their own
pockets, to learn about Is-
rael at first hand under the
guidance of the agency's
Soviet immigrants depart-
ment.
Most of them are aca-
demically trained people in
their 20s and 30s, and their
program concentrates on
universities and science-
based industries where they
are introduced to Soviet
olim who have found em-
ployment'and fulfillment in
Israel. ,
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Jewish Agency stepped
up its campaign to win over
"noshrim" (dropouts) in
several directions.
A group of 16' noshrim
presently living in Rome
came to Israel, paying for
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There have been two
previous such groups,
and the feedback shows
that they were highly
successful. Participants
returned to Rome with
accounts of what they
had seen and learned
that were considerably
more favorable than the
impressions of Israel and
life here that are wide-
spread among the nos-
hrim.
According to a Jewish
-Agency spokesman there
are "already initial signs"
that some of the people in-
volved are actively thinking
of changing their . intended
destination from the U.S. to
Israel,
The agency has also com-
pleted a course this week for
prospective emissaries who
are to be sent to Vienna and
Rome to work among the
Jewish emigres from the'
USSR.
Meanwhile,
World
Zionist Organization and
Jewish Agency Chairman
Leon Dulzin said he was not
against aid being extended
to Soviet Jewish emigrants
once they reach the US. He
made a statement following
what he felt was some unc-
larity abroad regarding his
position on "neshira."
"A full distinction
should be made," Dulzin
contended in his state-
ment, "between assis-
tance to noshrim who ar-
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of the presidium of the
"Brussels Conference."
The, key passage read:
"Since Jewish immigra,nts
from the Soviet Union are
Israeli-protected persons
from the moment of their
arrival in Austria, they
cannot be considered as ref-
ugees under the UN High
Commissioner's mandate.
Jewish immigrantS not
wishing to proceed to Israel,
in view of the availability of
the protection and services
of the Israel government
through the Jewish Agency,
cannot claim UN High
Commissioner's assistance
as refugees unless they are
able to fulfill the eligibility
criteria vis-a-vis the Soviet
Union and Israel."
Eyal said he did not favor
drastic measures, as pro-
posed by Dulzin, to' stop all
Jewish organizational aid
to noshrim in Vienna and
Rome.
It also was reported that
based on the first six
months of the year, it ap-
pears certain that Soviet
Jewish emigration in 1979
will break all records, ac-
cording to the Soviet Jewry'
Research Bureau of the Na-
tional Conference on Soviet
Jewry.
It pointed out that the
tally from January to
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"There is no justification,
moral or otherwise, to fi-
nance their travel
elsewhere, which indirectly
encourages them not to go to
Israel."
In a related development,
WZO-Jewish , Agency
Executive member Eli Eyal
disclosed a legal opinion
prepared in 1973 by the
staff of the UN High Com-
missioner for refugees
which clearly held that
Soviet Jewish emigrants,.
having- reached Vienna, do
not have "refugee" status.
Eyal said he had cited
from this document at the
recent meeting- in Rome .
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"Soviet Jews who arrive
in Vienna on Israeli visas
are enabled to do so only
thanks to the devotion,
dedication and martyrdom
of the Zionist activists in the
USSR and the direct in-
volvement of the Israeli
authorities. Once they ar-
rive in Vienna as free men,
the Jewish people, as a
whole, has only one com-
mitment toward them: the
commitment to get them
,safely to their homeland, Is-
rael.
"Refiner's Fire — the Life
and Adventures of Marshall
Pearl, a Foundling," (Knopf
Publishers) is the story of a
young man from the time of
his birth on an illegal im-
migrant ship off the coast of
Palestine in 1947, through
his growing up in America
and Jamaica, to his final
climactic experience in the
Israeli army during the
Yom Kippur War.
The novel is the first by
Mark Helprin, whose con-
tributions to "The New
Yorker" and "A Dove of the
East and Other Stories"
have won wide acclaim.
Chaim Potok has called
Helprin a "first rate writer
with a remarkably fresh
sensibility."
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rive in the United States
and assistance for them
to go there:"
-WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Pointing to the billions of
dollars accrued by "Arab
sheiks," Sen. John Heinz.
(R-Pa.) said he would -intro-
duce federal legislation to
put a six-month
moratorium on foreign
takeovers of American
banks. In addition, under
his proposal, a Federal Re-
serve study would look into
such takeovers and specific
legislative' remedies to deal
with them.
The American banking
system "is on the auction
block and with it our ability
to control our financial fu-
ture," Heinz warned.
"America should not want
OPEC dictating whether
her private companies can
expand here or abroad."
Pearl is adopted by a
wealthy, but childless
American family and has a
rather restless childhood in
which he is attracted by
forces that seem beyond his
grasp. Although on a west-
ward course since birth, he
is continually pulled east;
first, by a mother who died
when he was born and a
father who may still be
alive, and finally, by his un-
tutored but extraordinary
abilities in warfare.
Pearl's adventures pro-
ceed with each one building
on the others. The relation-
ships that he forms with
those he meets on his jour-
ney, help form his vision of
the world.
From its beginnings in
the 1930's with Pearl's
young parents to its final
destructive scenes ofthe Oc-
tober War, "Refiner's Fire,"
is an intense, yet enjoyable
novel.
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June is 24,794, projecting
a total for 1979 of nearly
50,000.
This year, the number of
emigres arriving in Vienna
from the USSR will almost
double the 28,864 Soviet
Jews who left in 1978„
In New York, the
president of the American
Association for Jewish Edu-
cation warned that the
"vast majority" of children
of recently-arrived Russian
Jewish immigrants "may be
lost to the next generation
of Jewish life in the Unit
States" unless a coordinat es
effort is undertaken to de-
termine the most effective
means of affording them a
comprehensive Jewish edu-
cation.
Arthur 'Brody said a
nationwide AAJE survey of
provisions made by local
Jewish communities for the
educational integration of
Russian- children "showed a
lack of direction and uni-
formity as to how to do it
properly, fund it properly
and link it properly to pro-
grams involving their par-
ents and families."
He said that the develcip-
rnent of systematic -tech-
niques in these areas
"would 'give invaluable
guidance to schools and
other agencies seeking to
integrate these young
people and their families
into the mainstream of
Jewish religious and com-
munal life."
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