28 Friday, July 22, 1983 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS TamaRoFF LeasinG CO 28585 TELEGRAPH RD. Across From Tel-12 Southfield (313) 353-1300 ALL MAKES & MODELS — DOMESTIC OR FOREIGN Sam Scotella ( • Rumored U.S.-USSR Compromise Is Hit WASHINGTON (JTA) — Avital Shcharansky warned last Thursday that if the U.S. signs a document ending the Madrid Confer- ence on Human Rights and Security, it would endanger her husband, Anatoly, as TEMPLE ISRAEL A Congregation of Liberal Judaism Invites Unaffiliated Families In the Community To Attend Religious Services All Summer Long In Our Beautiful Air-Conditioned Sanctuary At 8:00 P.M. Each Friday Night • If you and your family seek a warm, friendly, vital Congregation in the Reform tradition, but in the main stream of Jewish consciousness, pay us a visit. • High Holy Day Services Begin as early as Wednesday evening, Sept. 7. 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WHERE TRADITION IS OUR GOAL. 21100 W. 12 Mile Rd. 352-8670 Rabbi Milton Arm Rabbi Emeritus Benjamin Gorrelick Cantor Max Shemansky Reverend Joseph Baras Gerald Lasher, President well as the entire human rights movement in the Soviet Union. She told a press confer- ence at the Capitol that she was "very upset" when she heard about the possibility of the U.S. signing the com- promise agreement. She was in Washington to ad- dress a two-hour vigil on the Capitol steps marking the fifth anniversary of the end of her husband's trial in Moscow, at which time he was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment. Mrs. Shcharansky also met British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in Lon- don last weekend. About 100 persons attended the Capitol rally, some of them join- ing in the call by the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews to fast all day. In addition, some 100 members of Con- gress, including Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.) participated in the event which was organized by Reps. Robert Mrazek (D.N.Y.) and John Porter (R-I11.). Reports that the U.S. will sign the compromise Mad- rid document were coupled with claims that there were assurances from the USSR that it will allow some dis- sidents to emigrate by the end of the year. But none of the more prominent ones would be among them, such as Shcharansky and Yuri Orlov, both of whom are in prison, and Andrei Sakharov who has been exiled to Gorky. Mrs. Shcharansky stressed that if the U.S. signed the agreement be- fore her husband and other dissidents were released, it would doom them. She said her husband has become a symbol both within and out- side the USSR. She said Shcharansky has been used by the Soviet government to threaten Jewish would-be emigrants, many of whom are told that if they don't remain quiet, "you are going to be another Shcharansky." Mrs. Shcharansky, who met with Secretary of State George Shultz when he was in Jerusalem recently, siad he assured her that the U.S. would continue to do its best "to save her husband." President Reagan, in a telegram to the rally, stressed that "the issue of Soviet Jewry is of high priority to this Adminis- tration." He said the U.S. "will continue to seek opportunities to encour- age the Soviet Union to respect human rights and to live in accord with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other Envoy Dismisses Threat of Soviet Intimidation NEW YORK (JTA) — Benjamin Netanyahu, Is- rael's deputy ambassador to the United States, pledged here that Israel will not be intimidated by a Soviet presence in Syria. "We have no desire for a confrontation with Syria or the Soviets," he told more than 600 people last week at a gathering commemorat- ing the 43rd anniversary of the death of Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky. "But, if Israel is compelled to do so, Israel will defend itself. During the war of attrition, we shot down Soviet pilots. We are not afraid." Netanyahu also told the meeting sponsored by the Herut Zionists of American and the Max Nordau Circle, at the Roosevelt Hotel, that American Jewry should serve as "troops" in the "propaganda war" being fought in America as a counterforce to the massive Arab media effort to sway U.S. opinion against Is- rael... Meanwhile, Rabbi Dov Aharoni-Fisch, the new executive director of the Herut Zionists, reported that the Herut Zionists of America have established a national college organiza- tion, Tagar Student Ac- tivists, to mobilize support for Israel on America's campuses. Four Moscow Jews Arrested NEW YORK (JTA) — Four Moscow Jews were ar- rested last Friday night for holding a private prayer service, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry reported. Of the approx- imately one dozen persons present at the service, those arrested were Mikhail Ab- romov, Igor Briskman, and Mikhail Rudman. The arresting officer, Capt. Mikhail Stepanov, told them, "Until you leave this country, you will live by our rules," the SSSJ re- ported. The apartment's owner, Mark Feldman, was arrested when he went to the police station to ask about his friends. All were given 15-day sentences. The spokesman said that such sentences usually are served in local jails but had no information on the four arrestees. * * * London Vigil for Yosef Begun LONDON (JTA) — Soviet Jewry activists have begun a daily vigil outside the Soviet Embassy in London in anticipation of the trial of Moscow mathematician Dr. Yosef Begun, a self- employed teacher of He- brew. He is charged with "anti-Soviet propaganda," but according to the Na- tional Council of Soviet Jewry, Begun, for whom this will be the third trial in six years, has offended the Soviet authorities because of his determination to Tuesday's flight marks teach Hebrew to fellow the 300th such caravan of Soviet Jews waiting to emi- olim (new immigrants) grate to Israel. transported by El Al Air- Begun's trial, expected to lines in the 18 years the open in Moscow next week, Aliya Center has been in is regarded with particular operation. concern because his trial follows the Soviet NCJW Help authorities' claim that NEW YORK (JTA) — A Jewish emigration from the program to provide both Soviet Union is complete. men and women with coun- Begun's plight, since he seling about their miscar- first applied unsuccessfully riage experiences is being to leave for Israel in 1971, sponsored by the Jewish epitomizes the desire of Women's Research Center, many more Jews to go on a project of the New York aliya and of the Soviet section of the National authorities' efforts to sup- Council of Jewish Women press them. Vague "reasons (NCJW). of state" were given for the frequent rejection of Be- Author Harold Robbins' gun's emigration applica- real name is Harold Rubin. tiOns. Area Family on Special Israel Aliya Center Flight An Oak Park family of six will be among the largest single group of North Americans to make aliya to Israel when they board an El Al plane in New York Tuesday. The flight, which will carry 317 people who plan to make Israel their home, was organized to celebrate the 18th anniversary of the Is- rael Aliya Center. Aron and Rebecca Sigler, of Oak Park, and their four children are among the 237 passengers who will live in Israel beginning next week. The flight will also trans- port a group of 80 adults participating in the Mitzva Elef Program, a one-month, pre-aliya experience. international agreements to which it has sub- scribed." At both the press confer- ence and the raPy, Mrs. Shcharansky expressed concern about the health of her husband who was seen by his mother and brother on July 5 for the first time in 18 months. She said he is still weak from his fast which began last Yom Kippur and ended Jan. 15, that he appears to be suffering from chest pains and is still suffering from the effects of beatings he received from prison guards when he was being force-fed But, she noted, he remains optimistic.