THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Max Fisher Not Informed of Meeting
Proposing Changes in Aid to Drop-out

NEW YORK (JTA) — De-
troiter Max Fisher, chair-
man of the board of gover-
nors of the Jewish Agency,
declared last week that he,
as chairman, had not been
informed of the meeting of
the Jewish Agency Execu-
tive in Jerusalem at which
Agency treasurer Akiva
Levinsky proposed that the
time allocated for Soviet
Jewish emigrants to stay in
Vienna should be limited to
several hours only.
Levinsky said at the
meeting that he hoped that
limitation would make it
unnecessary for HIAS to-
function in Vienna.
Fisher, speAing to the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
by telephone from Miami,
said that Levinsky's state-
ment, in no way reflects
the policy of the Agency
board of governors;" adding
that Levinsky could have
been speaking only as an
individual and not as
Jewish Agency treasurer.
According to the report
from Jerusalem, Jewish
Agency 'Executive
chairman Leon Dulzin
sent a cable to Fisher,
asking him to convene a
meeting of American
Jewish leaders who are
serving on a special
committee seeking to re-
duce the dropout rate of
Soviet Jews — Jews who,
once reaching Vienna,
decide to continue on to
countries other than Is-
rael.
In his statement to the
JTA, Fisher said he ex-
pected to call a meeting of
that committee very shortly
but he added 'that state-
ments of the nature of those
made by Levinsky and Dul-
zin as to what the American
Jewish community "should,
do about drop-outs are divi-
sive and not helpful to ef-
forts to try to solve the prob-
lem."
Fisher also said that the
American Jewish commu-
nity "has made strides on
this problem" by reducing
the cost of settlement of the
Soviet Jews and that "one
must understand that
statements from Israel on
an American Jewish- com-
munity problem do not help
the process."

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Hasidim Not Disadvantaged
According to Federal Unit

would be improper to in-
WASHINGTON
Brooklyn's Hasidic Jews do clude Hasidim because they
not qualify as a "socially were a religious group and
and economically disadvan- hence kept from the pro-
taged group," according to a gram by Constitutional
ruling last week by the constraints.
Some opponents to the de-
Small Business Adminis-
signation had asserted that
tration.
The ruling will prohibit the Hasidim could not be
Hasidic Jewish businesses considered poor because
from receiving preferential many of them are involved
contracts to furnish goods in New York's diamond
and services to the Federal trade.
government.
The advice of friends
Four ethnic groups —
blacks, Hispanic people, must be received with a
American Indians 'and judicious reserve: we must
Pacific Asian-Americans not give ourselves up to it
are classified as "disadvan- and follow it blindly,
taged," but the Small Busi- whether right or wrong.
— Charron
ness Administration said it

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it that new immigrants
are not among the large
numbers of workers
being dismissed from
their jobs as a conse-
quence of the current
economic retrenchment.
Meanwhile, it was re-
ported in Moscow that
Anatoly Shcharansky, the
Jewish dissident serving a
13-year treason sentence,
has been moved from Chis-
topol Prison, 500 miles from
Moscow, to Labor Camp 35,
some 275 miles from Chis-
topol.
Shcharansky's family
said the 275-mile trip took
12 days to complete, accord-
ing to a letter from Anatoly.

Demonstrators from the Student Struggle for
Soviet Jewry are shown in front of the Soviet UN
Mission in New York last week, protesting the Soviet
backing of the Palestine Liberation Organization. A
"Plo terrorist" is shown aiming a rifle at "Anatoly
Shcharansky."
At the same time, Dul-
He said again all parties
concerned were trying to zin asked Begin to see to
work out a policy to encour-
age Soviet Jewish migra-
tion to Israel. Fisher said he
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had sent a cable to Levinsky
and Dulzin expressing those
views.
Meanwhile, Ma'oz, the
organization of Soviet-
Jewish immigrants in Is-
rael, has demanded the
resignation of Jewish
Agency and World
Zionist Organization
Executives chairman
Leon Dulzin and the
entire Jewish Agency
staff for their alleged
mishandling of the immi-
gration and absorption of
Soviet Jews.
The Ma'oz leaders also
demanded the resignation
of Foreign Ministry officials
involved in immigration
matters.
Golda Yelin, secretary of
Ma'oz, said at a press con-
ference that a telegram cal-
ling for the resignations has
been sent to Premier
Menahem Begin. She said
the organization is asking
the government to investi
gate "gross failures" in the
absorption of Soviet Jews,
mainly academicians. She
charged that this gave rise
to the phenomenon of drop-
outs.
According to Yelin, the
situation is as grave for Is-
rael as was the Yom Kippur
War, and those responsible
for it shouldbear the conse-
quences. She held her press
conference on the eve of the
Brussels Conference on
Soviet Jewry which opened
in Paris this week.

Friday, April 18, 1980

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