THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Soviet Jewish Prisoners Reported
Fighting for Jewish Renaissance
NEW YORK (JTA) — Av-
ital Shcharansky declared
that her husband, Anatoly,
and other imprisoned Soviet
Jewish refusniks are able to
endure the harsh conditions
of Soviet prisons because of
their belief they were fight-
ing for the "renaissance" of
"-, e Jewish people.
the told an audience of
Sne 2,000 people at Man-
hattan's Cong. Bnai Jeshu-
run that Soviet Jewish ac-
tivists were acting not only
for themselves or their
families but for all Jews so
that the Jewish people could
live as "one family" in Is-
rael.
Answering questions
from Dr. William Ber-
kowitz, rabbi of the congre-
gation, at its "Dialogue '79"
series, Mrs. Shcharansky
said that Jews in the Soviet
Union were awakened to
their Jewish heritage by the
Six-Day War.
It was this event that
brought the desire to
emigrate to Israel, she
said. She noted that when
some Jews get visas to
emigrate the ones left be-
hind are "happy" be-
cause they believe that
eventually all of them will
be united in the Jewish
state.
On the condition of her
own husband, she said
Anatoly, who is in Chistopol
Prison, does not receive
needed medical attention.
She said neither he nor the
other Jew in the prison, Iosif
Mendelevitch, receive any
of the mail sent to them.
Mrs. Shcharansky called
on Jews and non-Jews in the
United _States to continue
the fight for the freedom of
her husband and other
Soviet Jewish prisoners.
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Broomfield Speech
Helps Ida Nudel
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Meanwhile, Michigan
Congressman William
Broomfield (R-19th Dis-
trict) spoke in support of a
House Resolution urging
the Soviet Union to release
Soviet Jewish refusnik Ida
Nudel.
The resolution was
unanimously adopted in
the House Tuesday by a
voice vote. Speaking in
support of the resolution,
B _ roomfield said:
`Ida Nudel has become a
41*...inbol of repression that
exists in Russia today. We
must not forget this brave
woman and the many
thousands of others she re-
presents. I urge all of my
colleagues to join with me in
support of Ida Nudel."
In New York, more than
200 leaders of the Soviet
Jewry movement heard an
urgent warning that a
strategy of protest and op-
position may no longer be
effective as the sole weapon
in the movement's arsenal
of tactics for the coming de-
cade.
A challenge was issued to
the Leadership Assembly of
the Greater New York Con-
ference on Soviet Jewry to
explore, and even encour-
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Congressman William M. Brodhead (D-17th Dis-
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trict) meets with Bronislava Tonkonogay, wife of
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Gregory Gimpelson, a Jewish prisoner of conscience
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in the Soviet Union. Gimpelson's wife and son were
permitted to leave the Soviet Union, but he has been
denied an exit visa.
age, new areas of U.S.-
Soviet interaction as a
means of expanding oppor-
tunities for the exertion of
human rights leverage.
Keynoting the assem-
bly, Joseph Papp, direc-
tor of the New York
Shakespeare Festival,
pointed to his recent
meetings in Moscow with
Soviet officials for the
purpose of developing a
cultural exchange thea-
ter program.
"I believe that in the long
range interest of the Soviet
Jews . . . and in the interest •
of promoting the cause of
freedom everywhere . . . the
American ideology must be
exported more aggres-
sively." He added: "I feel it
is in our interest as Ameri-
cans and as Jews to main-
tain - some relationship with
the Soviet Union, fully rec-
ognizing that it is a repress-
ive state."
In a related development,
political developments in
the Soviet Union will be re-
ported by NBC-TV News
during its coverage of the
Olympic Games in Moscow
this summer, it was an-
nounced by Jacqueline
Levine, past president of the
Metropolitan New Jersey
Conference on Soviet
Jewry.
Tuesday, November 20, 1979
Jane Pfeiffer, board
chairman of NBC gave
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this assurance to Sam
Temple Emanu-El
Kusumoto, president of
the New Jersey-based
14450 W. 10 Mile, Oak Park
Minolta Corp., after he
wrote to Ms. Pfeiffer, ex-
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pressing his company's
concern that the games
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to the JNF from the Keren Keyemeth Le Israel where he served
might "foster a wholesale
as director of overseas tourism. He is here on special assignment
violation of the rights of
to establish and maintain broadbased relationships between the
minorities."
JNF and Jewish Youth Movements.
Kusumoto, whose camera
Mr. Neuman was educated in the United States and among the
firm will be sponsoring
many assignments he has held was head counselor and director
Dani Neuman
NBC's national broadcast of
of educational programs at camp Tamarack.
the Olympic Games, had in-
formed Ms. Pfeiffer that he
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shared the conference's con-
cern that the true spirit of
the Olympics might be vio-
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lated and "should this begin
to develop, we would be un-
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happy to lend our support to
the games via sponsorship."
Ethel Palmar.,
Shirley Kraft,
told
Reva Bloom,
Pfeiffer
Ms.
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Kusumoto that "NBC will
President
Chairperson
Chairperson
concentrate on the games
themselves and on giving
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American athletes the
PaltEN KAtittETH
recognition they deserve."
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