THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, November 14, 1980 29 Jewish Activists Will Begin Drive for Soviet Jews MADRID (JTA) — Soviet Thursday in front of the con- Jewish activists and Jewish ference hall. A spokesman circles working in conjunc- for the women said that tion with the presidium of they will keep on their si- the Brussels Conference lent vigil outside the hall, in plan to launch an intensive spite of the cold and rain, campaign on behalf of until they feel that their Soviet Jewry this week. problem is likely to be They have held back for examined by the confer- several weeks while the ence. United States delegation Spanish policemen are and other western represen- keeping the area clear of all tatives tried to save the demonstrators and Jewish European Conference for activists have till now been Security and Cooperation. unable to even enter the Wednesday morning, as it meeting hall building to became clear that the Soviet meet delegates or present delegation would not accept their cases. Even newsmen any agenda ensuring a are barely admitted into the thorough discussion of the building with the Spanish human rights violations de- authorities apparently try- spite the Helsinki agree- ing to give the conference as ment, the Jewish circles de- low a profile as possible. cided to launch their cam- Several organizations paign. not connected with the Western delegations Brussels Conference on tried until shortly before Soviet Jewry, such as the midnight Tuesday, to "Union of Councils for reach a compromise Soviet Jewry" are also agreement on a mutually active in the Spanish cap- acceptable agenda which ital. would provide for suffi- The Socialist Interna- cient time to enable a tional, which is also meet- thorough discussion of ing in Madrid, not con- Soviet violations. nected with the security and The Conference for Euro- cooperation conference, is pean Security and Coopera- also expected to examine tion is attended by delega- the situation of Soviet tions from 33 European Jewry at the request of the countries plus the United Israeli delegation led by States and Canada. It was Labor Party Chairman convened to study the appli- Shimon Peres. cations and implications of Meanwhile, Vladimir the agreement signed in Tsukerman, a 35-year-old Helsinki. electronics engineer whose For the last six weeks, wife and son live in Israel, while the delegates held who was arrested in preparatory talks, the Kishinev Oct. 29 after sign- Soviet delegation and ing an appeal protesting the representatives of other continued refusal of the East European countries Soviet authorities to allow tried to block any serious him and other Kishinev discussion of these issues. Jews to join their families in The Jewish circles now Israel, was sentenced last plan several spectacular ac- week to 15 days in prison, tions which will help to the National Conference on focus world public opinion Soviet Jewry (NCSJ) re- on the plight of Soviet ported. He was charged Jewry. Next month, the with "hooliganism." chief rabbis of most West Tsukerman was one of six European countries will emigration activists in demonstrate outside the Kishinev who signed the meeting hall and later call a appeal addressed to the par- press conference to air the ticipants in the second re- issue. The chief rabbis of view conference in Madrid France, Britain, Italy, West on the Helsinki Accords. Germany and Denmark are The signatories an- due to attend and more nounced that they will might join them for the start a hunger strike on unique event. that date to dramatize The titular heads of their plight and that of Western Europe's two other Soviet Jews denied largest Jewish Com- the right to emigrate. A munities, France's similar appeal was C.R.I.F. President Baron signed by 27 refusniks in Main de Rothschild and Riga. In addition to Tsuker- Britain's president of the Board of Deputies of man, the signatories were: British Jews, Labor MP Grigory Leiderman, 35, an Greville Janner, are also electronics engineer, whose due to arrive in Madrid parents are in Israel; Alek- sandr Lezerovich, 33, an next month. Parliamentarians from engineer, whose wife and 14 West European countries daughter are in Israel; and are also due to arrive in the Alexsandr Khozin, 33, a Spanish capital next month computer engineer, whose and will request to be heard parents are in Israel. by the conference's The participants in the presidium to officially raise hunger strike have been the question of Soviet viola- active for a long time in tions of Jewish rights in Russia in spite of the Hel- Books which teach and sinki Agreement and con- teach and speak of whatever crete Russian pledges. is highest and best are Three Russian Jewish equally sacred, whatever be women, whose husbands the tongue in which they and sons have been unable are written, or the nation to to leave the Soviet Union, which they belong. started a hunger strike —Spinoza Jewish culture and educa- tional activities in Kishinev. As a result, they have been slandered re- peatedly in the local news- paper, "Sovietskaya Mol- davia," and recently singled out as "aides to American imperialists." According to the NCSJ, such attacks may pave the way to subsequent arrests and trials. In a related development, while more than 100,000 Russian Jewish "refusniks" fasted for two days to demonstrate their protest against the decision by the Soviet Union to severely curtail emigration to Israel and the West, the New York Board of Rabbis sponsored a two-day prayer vigil Wed- nesday and Thursday. In Jerusalem, Prime Minister Menahem Begin disapproved of the Jewish Agency's call for a confrontation with the Council of Jewish Feder- ations in the U.S. over the latter's refusal to accept the "Naples Plan" for cutting the dropout rate among Soviet Jews. As a result, the Jewish Agency will probably go ahead and implement the plan. 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