THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
n; 1980
Night of Murdered Poets
LOUVERDRAPE VERTICALS I Recalls Soviet Oppression
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NEW YORK (JTA) —
Twenty-four of the Soviet
Union's leading Jewish
writers, poets, artists,
musicians and actors were
executed in Moscow's
notorious Lubianka Prison
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on Aug. 12, 1952. That
'event came to be known as
"The Night of the Murdered
Poets."
Some of those executed
were among the more than
400 outstanding Jewish ar-
tists who we're rounded up
in the winter of 1948-1949
and exiled, with their
families, to the Gulag,"
Burton Levinson, chairman
of the National Conference
on Soviet Jewry, recalled on
the 29th anniversary of the
tragic event.
"Most of them died in
labor camps, leaving three
million Jews without
teachers, creative leaders
and communal institutions.
"Today, 28 years later,
we are reminded that
there are many in the
USSR who are still op-
pressed and enslaved be-
cause they are Jews.
Anti-Semitism, in many
guises, is increasingly
pervasive."
As an example, Levinson
noted that the rate of
Jewish emigration from the-
Soviet Union to Israel and
to other nations has been
slashed to about 40 percent
of its 1979 level.
PLO Spokesman Campaigns
Against Church, Packwood
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
A leading Palestine Libera-
tion Organization prop-
agandist, Dr. M.T. Mehdi of
New York City, is cam-
paigning in Idaho and Ore-
gon to block the re-election
of two U.S. Senators who
support friendly relations
with Israel. The two are
Sen. Frank Church (D-
Idaho), chairman of the Se-
nate Foreign Relations
Committee, and Bob
Packwood (R-Ore.).
Mehdi identifies himself
as "Secretary General of
Arab People to America."
His tactics against Church
and Packwood, among the
most articulate supporters
of Israel in Congress, in-
clude advertisements in
newspapers urging opposi-
tion to "all American mili-
tary aid to Israel and the
Arab states."
He also suggests that the
,
Anti-Arafat
HELSINKI — Nearly
24,000 Finns signed peti-
tions in recent weeks oppos-
ing any visit to Finland by
Palestine Liberation
Organization chief Yasir
Arafat.
Arab states would boycott
wheat from Idaho.
To avoid charges that he
is interfering in American
elections, Mehdi masks his
propaganda by claiming
that he is conducting an
"educational campaign."
Prisoners Eat
JERUSALEM — All but
three of the Palestinian
prisoners who went on a
hunger strike at Napha
Prison in the Negev have
ended the strike after 33
days.
The special prison for
convicted terrorists was
charged by the strikers with
having poor conditions. Two
prisoners died while being
force-fed by prison
authorities during the
strike.
Aliya Reduced
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Some 13,574 immigrants
arrived in Israel in the first
seven months of 1980, a de-
crease of 35.4 percent com-
pared to the same period
last year. The Soviet gov-
ernment has drastically re-
duced the number of exit
visas granted to Jews.
The B'nai B'rith Foundation
Youth Services Appeal
Campaign Kick-Off Dinner
Tuesday, August 26th, 1980
6:00 P.M. at Adat Shalom Synagogue
•
The B'nai B'rith Youth Serving Agencies, the
B'nai B'rith Youth Organization (A.Z.A. and B.B.G.) and
the B'nai B'rith. Hillel Foundations on college campuses
are the link to helping train your young Jewish Leadership.
Investing in today's youth builds America's tomorrow.
Keynote Speaker
Norman Adelsberg
Louis E. Barden
Kenneth Bertin
Floyd Bornstein
Sam Braverman
Joseph Broder
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DR. DANIEL THURSZ Vcierigtv
Dr. Jerry Appel
David Bittker
Martin Brusseloff
Manny Charach
Philip Cohen
A. J. Cutler
Honrary Chairmen
Joseph Cutler
William Q. Graham
David Handleman
Dr. William Haber
Harold Jaffa
Jay Kogan
Nathan Korash
Sol Moss
Dr. Milton Shiffman
Philip Slomovitz
Joshua J. Stone
Nathan Willis
Allen Charlupski
Henry Dorfman
Joel F. Garfield
Ben Gordon
Louis A. Goutman
Nathan Harris
Honorary Co-Chairmen
Alexander Karp
Charles Milan
Myron Milgrom
Ralph Miller,
'Abbert,N,aftaly
Milford Nemer
David Pollack
Maurice Rosender
Fred Rasnick
Richard Sloan
I. W. Sherr
Irving Siegel
B'nai B'rith Foundation Chairman
Louis Weber
David. Bittker
Floyd Bornstein
Joel F. Garfield
Co-Chairmen
David Levine
Ernest Shaw
Arthur C. Schott
Sol Moss
Harry Weinberger
Donald Simon
Phillip Stollman
Max Wayburn
Edwin Weinstein
Harvey L. Weisberg
For Information
and Reservations
Call
B'nai B'rith Foundation
552-8070
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