Ransoming the Captives: Experiences by World Jewry Reject Anything Approaching Blackmail THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Commentary, Page 2 of Jewish Events A Call to the Jewish Youth: Criticize, But Under All Circumstances Be Identified Editorial, Page 4 Copyright Co) The Jewish News Publishing Co. VOL. LXXVIII, No. 19 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield Mich. 48075 , 424-8833 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35` January 9, 1981 Levin Urges. President-Elect o Pursue Strong M.E. Role Joseph Trumpledor: Centennial of a Hero By JAMES LEWIN World Zionist Press Service JERUSALEM — Be- cause he was a Jew in Czarist Russia, Joseph Trumpledor was refused admission to any institu- tion of secondary or higher education in the country. So he studied dentistry. In 1902, he was drafted at the age of 22 into the army of the czar. He volunteered for the 27th Eastern Sibe- rian regiment and was sent to Port Arthur. In savage battles of the Russo-Japanese war, he JOSEPH TRUMPLEDOR displayed outstanding courage and exceptional bravery. Despite losing his left arm, he requested to be returned to combat, writing to the military commander, "I have only one remaining hand, but it is my right hand, and therefore since I wish to share the life of my brothers-in-arms as before, I request your Excel- lency to take steps to ensure that I receive a sword and a pistol." As a non-commissioned officer he was taken prisoner-of-war by the Japenese; on returning to Russia after the conflict, he received all four degrees of the Cross of St. George and became the first Jewish commissioned officer in the Czarist army. Yet he firmly rejected the Russian military career which was offered to him and became preoccupied with social and political problems. He dedicated himself to the establishment of a Jewish community in Palestine, based on truth and justice. Influenced by the idea of collective communes as described by Tolstoy, he decided to commit himself to help develop Jewish agricultural communities, Senator Carl Levin, following his recent two-week visit to the Middle East, has written a 20-page letter elaborating on the Middle East conditions as they affect the United States, and has strongly urged President-elect Ronald Reagan to adhere to and to pursue the aims for peace begun at Camp David two years ago and to strengthen U.S. involvement in the process. In the lengthy letter of several thousand words, the Michigan Senator proposed to the President-elect a three-point program of action that is vital to the times and the peace of the world. He asked Reagan to become deeply involved in the Middle East peace process because "American leadership is an essential ingredient if a peace settlement is to be achieved"; that "American security assistance programs in the Middle East need to be enhanced in. ways that do not upset the military balance between Israel and her Arab neighbors"; that American commitments should be renewed to defend our vital interests in the Persian Gulf by whatever C ARL LEVIN means necessary." Upon providing a thorough account of the issues involved in the Middle East peace ap- proaches, Senator Levin makes this tellingstatement in his letter to Mr. Reagan: "Camp David was an extraordinary feat, despite its failure so far to untie the Palestinian knot. Recognizing that fact will keep hopes alive. Equally important, it helps keep in focus what is achievable. If we expect more than Camp Daivd in any one step, we are expecting too much. Programs to better organize, train, equip, and make ready the rapid deployment force should receive high priority. Military construc- tion to improve the utility of Diego Garcia and facilities in Oman, Somalia and Kenya — to which we have been granted access — should proceed with the urgency required. Senator Levin's proposals are based on his findings during his semi-official visit in Middle East countries as a member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, during which he conferred with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israel Prime Minister Menahem Begin and Jordanian King Hussein. Senator Levin alludes in his letter to the ap- ROME (JTA) — Hilarion Capucci, the former Pat- proaching national elections in Israel as an im- riarch of the Eastern Orthodox (Greek Catholic) Church in East Jerusalem and the West Bank who served a term in an pact on the situation derived from the contest Israeli jail for smuggling weapons to Palestinian terrorists, between PrimeMinister Begin's Likud Party was the main architect of the European Economic Commu- and the Labor forces headed by Shimon Peres.' nity's (EEC) "peace formula" for Jerusalem, according to Of special interest, in view of Egyptian the Italian weekly, "Panorama." Capucci, a member of President Sadat's rejection of proposals to the Palestine Liberation Organization's National Council, invite Jordan's King HuSsein into the peace was recruited for the task by Msgr. Agostino Casaroli, the deliberations and Dr. Henry Kissinger's as- Vatican "Foreign Minister," who headed the team that sertion on Tuesday, upon his completion of drafted the EEC's Jerusalem proposals, Panorama said. his three-day conferences in Israel, that he They comprise one of the four chapters in the 30-page peace now places lesser stress on the Jordanian plan for the Middle East incorporated in the EEC heads of Gunrunning. Priest Wrote EEC Initiative (Continued on Page 6) (Continued on Page 46) (Continued on Page 7) Super Sunday Solicitation Refusniks Remember Kishinev Pogrom Starts $19,150,000 Drive GI Setting Super Sunday, to be activated for telephone solicitation of 12,000 potential contributors on Jan. 18, as official opening day for the 1981 Allied Jewish Campaign, the Jewish Welfare Federation. under whose supervision the Campaign is conducted, set a target of $19,150,000 as a minimum goal for the year. This does not include the Project Renewal income which nets additional millions to support the activities for the underprivileged in Israel. Federation President George M. Zeltzer said the $19,150,000 figure s arrived at in line with nationwide findings by the 1981 Campaign r lanning Task Force of the Council of Jewish Federations and United Jewish Appeal, chaired by Detroiter Martin E. Citrin. A Federation - Campaign policy committee, under the leader- ship of past Campaign General Chairmen David Handleman and Irving R. Seligman, carefully studied the needs faced by local, national and overseas agencies and urged total community mobili- zation toward "capacity giving." As part of a national billion-dollar campaign through more than 200 federations and the United Jewish Appeal, Detroit's fund-raising efforts will be directed toward a goal of at least $25 million by 1985. In 1980, from 22,000 contributors, the Campaign achieved an estimated $17,650,000, plus $1,140,000 as the 1980 share of Project Renewal. (Continued on Page 12) a Denied a memorial to commemorate the Nazi Holocaust, Kishinev refusniks defiantly gather at the mass grave of the victims of the notorious 1903 Kishinev pogrom, in a photo obtained by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. In the city today, Jews seeking emigration must wait up to six months merely to get visa application forms, then exit is routinely denied.