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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Mrs. Shcharansky Appeals to U.S.
on Behalf of Jailed Dissident Husband

PHILADELPHIA (JTA)
— Avital Shcharansky,
whose imprisoned husband
Anatoly is recognized
throughout the world as a
symbol of Soviet Jewry's
struggle for aliya and cul-
tural and religious freedom,
handed a letter to First
Lady Rosalynn Carter in
historic Congress Hall last
week.
According to AL Erlick
and David Gross, associate
editors of the Jewish Expo-
- -Tit, the dramatic pre-
, tation, witnessed by a
capacity audience, was the
emotional highlight of
"Forum on Madrid: Prom-
ises and Realities," co-
sponsored by the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry
and the Soviet Jewry-Coun-
cil of the Jewish Commu-
nity Relations Council of
Greater Philadelphia.
The form was designed to
focus attention on the plight
of Soviet Jewry prior to the
official opening Tuesday of
the international confer-
ence in Madrid, which is to
review compliance with the
Helsinki Accords, including
"Basket Three," devoted to
human rights.
In her letter, which was
addressed to President
Carter, Mrs.
Shcharansky said:
",`I am happy for this
opportunity to meet, your
dear wife at Independence
Hall, Philadephia, in the

city of freedom, and
brotherly love. Very soon
the conference in Madrid
will be held to review the
Helsinki Accords. Please do
not forget my husband,
Anatoly Shcharansky.
"You were so kind to
speak up on his behalf when
he was first arrested, and
now, he is still serving his
sentence. My husband was
suffering with illness and
he was in a prison hospital.
He is falsely accused simply
because he wanted to be re-
united with me in Israel. My
husband needs your help to
be released. Can you in-
crease your support to free
my brave husband, Anatoly
Shcharansky?"
Mrs. Carter pledged her
husband's continuing sup-
port for the cause of Soviet
Jewry.
At a dinner at the War-
wick Hotel following the
forum, Mrs. Shcharansky
revealed that Soviet
authorities had cancelled
the upcoming visit to her
husband of his mother and
brother. She also told the
assembly that his health
had improved since his re-
cent hospitalization, but
that prisonlife was taking a
continuing toll.
Meanwhile, a move to
call a hunger strike on
the opening day of the
Madrid conference on
detente and human
rights appears to be gain-

ing acceptance among
Jews in Moscow, Kiev
and other Soviet cities in
protest against the recent
cutback in Jewish emig-
ration.
Jewish activitists re-
ported at least 30 persons
will begin a symbolic
three-day fast when the con-
ference opens Tuesday. The
conference will review the
1975 Helsinki accords.
In Kharkov, 10 Jews
agreed to participate in the
hunger strike and conduct
their demonstration in the
apartment of longtime ac-
tivist Izaak Moshkovich.
The KGB, the Soviet secret
police learned of the plan
and roughed up Moshkovich
until his shouts attracted
neighbors and his harassers
left.
However, Moshkovich
was arrested on Oct. 31
and has not been seen
since.
About 20 Jews from Kiev
reported they will join the
hunger strike.
It also was learned that
six Soviet Jews from
Kishinev have announced
plans to participate in the
hunger strike. The six re-
fusniks are: Vladimir
Tsukerman, Grigory

Leiderman, David Vodovoz,
Aleksandr Lezorovich,
Leonid Vainshtein and
Alexsandr Khozin.
. In a letter sent to the par-
ticipants to the Madrid Con-
ference, the six stated, "We
have begged, we have
asked, we have inquired
and still we are no further in
our desire to be reunited
with out families.
"Thus we have decided
to exercise the only thing
left for us to do and go on
a hunger strike . . . No
matter what happens to
us we are counting on
your support and we are
appealing to your con-
science to help free us
from bondage."
The Detroit Jewish
Community Council has
called for letters of protest
to be sent to Ambassador
Anatoly Dobrynin, Em-
bassy of the USSR, 1125
16th St. N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20036, demanding that
the participants in the
hunger strike be allowed to
go to Israel to join their
families.
Letters of support to the
six in Kishinev can be sent
to Tsukerman, Gagarina
9-3, Kishinev-27, Molada-
vian SSR, USSR.

summer to the post by the
Paris Consistoire, the
French Jewish religious
organization which super-
vises Orthodox activities
and elects the Jewish com-
munity's main religious
leaders.
A representative of
President Valery Giscard
d'Estaing, Interior Minister
Christian Bonnet and Paris
Mayor Jacques Chirac
joined France's top Jewish
leadership at the ceremony.
The Catholic and Protes-
tant churches were also re-
presented.

Ground Broken
for Mizrachi
Children's Home

, NEW YORK — Work has
started on the Beth Hayeled
Childhaven, an American
Mizrachi Women's chil-
dren's home in Jerusalem.
Hundreds of under-
privileged children will live
at Beth Hayeled when it is
completed in 1982. They
will live in "family groups"
composed of 12 children of
varying ages living under
the guidance and supervi-
sion of trained live-in male
and female counselors.
A day care center for
working parents of the
neighborhood will be main-
tained at Beth Hayeled to
facilitate the integration of
the project children with
children from the neighbor-
hood, coming from pre-
dominately middle class
homes.

MONTREAL (JTA) —
Isin Ivanier, a Montreal
industrialist, stressed that
Israel must develop nuclear
energy in order to become
economically self-sufficient.
lvanier spoke at a meet-
ing of the Canadian Friends
of the Technion at the Ritz
Carleton Hotel at which a
drive was launched to raise
$5-$6 million from the
Montreal Jewish commu-
nity to build a Canadian nu-
clear research center for the
training of Israeli engineers
in nuclear energy problems.
Ground-breaking for the
center to be located in Haifa
is scheduled for January.
"Israel's independence
hangs on a cheap, fast and
convenient energy," Ivanier
said. "Becoming eco-
nomically self-sufficient is

the only way to ensure the
political security and moral
reliance of our people and
its destiny."

Meeting PLO

WASHINGTON — Assis-
tant Secretary of State
Harold Saunders "ex-
changed brief pleasantries"
with two Palestine Libera-
tion Organization (PLO) of-
ficials at the United Na-
tions last month, according
to a story in Near East Re-
port.
State Department offi-
cials confirm that Saunders
was introduced to Zehdi
Labib Terzi, PLO observer
at the UN and Farrouk
Kaddoumi, PLO political
director, but claim the
meeting was strictly social.

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Anti-Semitism in France
Focus of Squadron Mission

PARIS (JTA) — Howard
SqUadron, chairman of the
Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations, met recently
with French Deputy Minis-
ter for Foreign AffairS
Olivier Stern.
The minister told Squad=
ron and the Presidents Con-
ference executive director,
Yehuda Hellman, that the
French government is doing
all it can to track down the
persons responsible for the
Oct. 3 Rue Copernic Temple
bombing and bring them to
trial.
Stern, himself Jewish,
said it is French official pol-
icy to fight anti-Semitism in
all its forms and by all legal
methods. -
Squadron conferred ear-
lier with the president of the
Representative Council of
Jewish Organizations in
France (CRIF), Baron Alain
Rothschild. He expressed
aerican Jewry's concern
over the increase in anti-
Semitis acts in France and
Western Euiope. He said
that American Jewry is
keenly interested in what
happens in Europe and is
keeping in close contact
with French Jewry. .
. Squadron and Hellman
also attended the cere-
monies marking the in-
stallation of Paris' new
Chief Rabbi Alain
Goldmann at the main
synagogue last Thurs-
day.
The 49-year-old French-
born rabbi was elected last

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