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Friday, June 10, 1983
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ence on Soviet Jewry
(NCSJ) said the commit-
tee is the "larger compo-
nent of a new prop-
aganda campaign in
which Soviet authorities
are trying to delegitimize
Israel and Zionism and
make the desire for re-
partriation to Israel bor-
der on criminality."
The NCSJ said, "The
propaganda offensive takes
place at a time when the
emigration of Jews was vir-
tually ended and an average
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of 100 a month are permit-
ted to leave. Despite the
claims of the anti-Zionist
committee . . . Western
monitors know that at least
300,000 invitations have
been sent to Soviet Jews to
permit them to take the first
step in leaving. These have
not been acted upon."
-The NCSJ reported that
six prominent Moscow Jews
issued a letter last week
protesting the formation of
the anti-Zionist committee.
The letter asked "How is
it, that you have not noticed
the 300,000 Jews who, in
spite of enormouse difficul-
ties, managed to leave the
USSR during the last 12
years?" The letter was
signed by former Prisoner of
Conscience Boris Cher-
nobilsky and his wife,
Elena, Viktor Elistratov,
Natalia and Gennady Kha-
sin and Evgeny
Grechanovsky.
On Saturday, the rabbi of
Moscow's only synagogue,
Rabbi Jacob Fishman, age
70, died of a heart attack
only days after becoming
involved in the controversy.
Jewish organizations
in contact with Soviet
Jewry generally consid-
ered Fishman to be a
docile instrument of
Soviet policy. According
to press reports, he re-
cently sent a letter to the
U.S. Embassy in Moscow
protesting the regular
visits of an embassy offi-
cial to talk to Soviet
Jewish activists and dis-
sidents who congregate
outside the synagogue on
Saturdays to exchange
information.
The letter, signed by
Fishman, reportedly com-
plained that the visits were
"humiliating for genuinely
believing Jews" because the
U.S. offical, James Glenn, a
second secretary at the em-
bassy, is non-Jewish and
many of the Jewish activists
are non-believers. He
claimed Glenn sought to
find out which Jews were
asking to emigrate and
whether they were being
persecuted.
Fishman's letter drew a..t
sharp retort from U.S. Am-
bassador Arthur Hartman,
who called the rabbi's
charges "unfounded and
factually false."
Production of Kosher Flour
Keeps Old Mill in Business
NEW YORK — The
Hasidic community of
Brooklyn and a small town
grist mill proprietor in up-
state New York have found
contentment and profitabil-
ity, respectively, in a
unique arrangement that
was the subject of a recent
New York Times feature
story.
The Tuthilltown Grist
Mill in Gardiner, N.Y.,
owned and operated by
George Smith, is the only
water-driven mill in the
country that stone-grinds
the special kosher flour
used by Hasidic Jews. Every
year, according to the
Times, rabbis representing
the six Hasidic congrega-
tions trek north from the
Williamsburg,
Crown sisted that the lead would
Heights, Flatbush and
compromise the purity of
Borough Park sections of the flour, new stones had
Brooklyn to watch Smith
to be found.
grind their flour at the
A concern in Denmark
195-year-old mill.
provided the answer — at a
cost of $3,000 plus "as-
Smith listens hard when
tronomical shipping
a Hasidic customer makes a
charges," according to
request, since kosher mil-
Smith. This time the
ling accounts for about two-
millstones were shipped
thirds of his business. Meet-
ing the difficult demands of across the Atlantic in one
the ultra-Orthodox group is piece.
Smith spends about three
worth the effort and ex-
weeks every autumn clean-
pense, according to Smith.
ing the mill with air com-
He is quick to point out that
pressors and industrial
the partnership preserves
more than just Hasidic tra- vacuums — another re-
quirement set forth by the
ditions; it also keeps the old
Yankee mill alive when rabbis. Even the millstones
most others are memories or must be laboriously picked
clean of ground-in grist.
museums.
Any grinding of non-kosher
Turning out kosher flour is done in the summer,
flour has provided addi-
once all the kosher flour has
tional expenses, as well
been produced.
as profits, for the mill
The rabbis, exacting as
owner. The mill's origi-
they are, have a great deal
nal, history-laden of respect for the mill owner.
millstones, shipped in "There's probably not a
pieces from France in the dozen men in the country
1700s, had to be replaced who can operate that mill,"
because stonemasons one commented recently.
used lead to solder the "It's really quite a trick to
pieces into one-ton get it (the flour) to come out
wheels. When a rabbi in- right," the rabbi said.
PLO Shifting Units Back
to Lebanon to Boost Arafat
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NEW YORK — The
Palestine Liberation
Organization is reportedly
moving fighting units that
were shipped out of Beirut
last fall, under_ pressure
from Israel, back into
Lebanon in order to bolster
the leadership of Yasir
Arafat.
Arafat, facing a mutiny in
the Bekaa Valley, made
light of the split in PLO
ranks during a visit with
Indian Prime Minister In-
dira Gandhi in New Delhi.
At the same time, Soviet
Anti-Semitism
Hit by VELKD
leader Yuri Andropov sent
two messages to Arafat ex-
pressing support for his
leadership of the PLO.
Ayatollah Hits
Lebanon Pact
NEW YORK — A speech
by Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini, broadcast over
Teheran Radio on Sunday,
condemned the Israel-
Lebanon troop withdrawal
agreement.
The ayatollah said the
agreement "strengthens
American power in the
region and imposes Israel
over Moslem Lebanon and
other Moslem countries in
the area."
BONN (JTA) — The lead-
ership body of the United
Protestant Lutheran
The interrogation of cus-
Church of Germany, the tom at all points is an in-
VELKD, issued a strong in- evitable stage in the growth
dictment of anti-Semitism of every superior mind.
at its meeting in Hannover.
—Emerson
J