12 Friday, June 10, 1983 FRANK PAUL THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS ,0 U.S. Rebukes a Soviet Jewish 'Anti-Zionist Committee' and His ORCHESTRA Also Solos, Duos & Trios Tops in Music & Entertainment (Continued from Page 1) longer wish to leave An- dropov's empire The National Confer. 557-7986 ■ DANCE! into the 80's PARTIES BY [1 Rock & Roll Disco 50's, 60's, 70's Best Music We Haven't Stopped Dancing Why Should You! Call Dan Sandberg 353-6699 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 gr/r,AltE)FirEVENT THAT'S A LONG TIME TO LIVE WITH A MISTAKE. At Seymour Kaplan & Co.. we'll show you how to avoid mistakes. 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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. 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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