THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Visa for Refusnik After 12 Years
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Eitan Finkelstein and his
family have finally been
granted exitvisas, 12 years
after applying for them.
Finkelstein, a physicist
and Jewish activist, applied
to emigrate with his family
in 1971 and was repeatedly
denied permission to leave.
Since then, he has been
working on menial jobs
after having been dismissed
from his job as physicist.
During the 12 years he also
devoted his spare time to
Jewish studies.
Because of his involve-
ment in the study of Jewish
history and culture and his
contribution to the somizdat
journal "Jews in the USSR,"
Finkelstein had been a
target of KGB harassment,
it was reported. Recently he
was announced in the
Soviet press in a column
entitled "Beware Zionism."
Meanwhile, at the
United Nations, Israel
charged that the plight of
Soviet Jews has worse-
ned in the last year and
accused the Soviet Union
of closing its gates to
Jewish emigration and
conducting an anti-
Semitic campaign
against its Jewish citi-
zens.
Addressing the Social,
Humanitarian and Cul-
tural Committee (The Third
Committee), Ambassador
Yehuda Blum of Israel
charged that in the last year
"the Soviet authorities"
have shown themselves
even more callous in their
attitude toward the Jews in
their midst, more brazen in
their flagrant disregard of
international obligations as
well as of the opinion of the
civilized world."
Blum said that while in
1982 the Soviets allowed
2,700 Jews to emigrate, in.
"the current year, as of Sept.
30, 1982, fewer than -1,100
have been granted permis-
sion to leave."
He charged that the halt-
ing of Jewish emigration
"has by no means meant a
relaxation of the pressures
upon Soviet Jews." He said
that the Jews in the Soviet
Union are discriminated
against and are denied their
religious and cultural
rights, including their right
to study Hebrew and to have
Hebrew text books or publi-
cations on Jewish history.
Continuing, Blum said
that Soviet Jews are sub-
ject to "the increasing
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Soviet Jewry Forum Due
-
Dr. Zvi Y. Gitelman,
political science professor at
the University of Michigan,
whose specialty is the
Soviet Union, and Glenn
Richter, founding director
of the Student Struggle for
Soviet Jewry, will be the
keynote speakers at a
community-wide forum on
Soviet Jewry 8 p.m. Thurs-
day at Cong. Beth Shalom.
The forum, entitled
"Soviet- Jewry: Yesterday,
Today and Will There Be a
Tomorrow?" is being held in
observance of Human
Rights Day.
Rabbi David Nelson,
spiritual leader of Cong.
Beth Shalom, will be the
moderator, and Jerry Ro-
gers, chairman of the
Zionist Organization of De-
troit's Soviet Jewry Com-
mission, will chair the ques-
tion - and - answer session.
Prof. Leon Warshay,
chairman of the public
affairs committee of the
Detroit District ZOA, is
the program coordinator.
Co-sponsoring organiza-
tions include: Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai
Brith, Cong. Beth Shalom,
Bnai Brith Men's and
Women's Councils, Detroit
Soviet Jewry Committee of
the Jewish Community
Council, Detroit Zionist
Federation, Greater Detroit
Chapter of Hadassah and
Detroit District ZOA.
U.S. Chinese, Hungarian
Share Wolf Math Prize
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A
Chinese-American and a
Hungarian are to share the
$100,000 Wolf Foundation
Prize in mathematic s for
1983-1984, the Edu ation
Ministry and the Wolf
Foundation announ :ed.
They are Prof. Shiing
Chern, of the Uni 'ersity of
California-Berkey, who
was born in Kashing, China
in 1911 and has been an
American citizen since
1961, and Prof. Paul Erdos,
70, of the Mathematical In-
stitute of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences in
Budapest.
Chern was cited for his
outstanding contribu-
tions to "global differen-
tial geometry, which
have profoundly influ-
enced all mathematics."
Erdos, said to be "one of
the most prolific math-
ematicians of all times,"
was nominated for his
"numerous contributions to
number theory, corn-
binatorics, probability, set
theory and mathematical
analysis, and for personally
stimulating math-
ematicians the world over."
He lived principally in the
U.S. between 1938 and 1954
and is considered a "roving
ambassador of math-
ematics," having lectured
throughout the world.
UJA Mission
NEW YORK — Victor
Gelb of Cleveland, a United
Jewish Appeal national vice
chairman since 1981 and
chairman of its Allocations
Committee, has been
named chairman of the
1984 winter President's
Mission for the second con-
secutive year. The mission,
which will be hosted by Is-
rael's President Chaim
Herzog, will visit Israel Jan.
22-27.
volume and ferocity of
the anti-Semitic incite-
ment in the government -
controlled media, mas-
querading as anti-
Zionism, which has re-
cently introduced an
ominous new element
into the plight of Soviet
Jewry."
The Israeli envoy de-
clared: "In the name of de-
cency and common sense,
we call upon the Soviet gov-
ernment to put an end to
this ominous campaign of
anti-Semitic incitement.
We call upon the Soviet
authorities to conform their
policies and practices re-
garding Soviet Jews to the
international obligations of
the Soviet Union as well as
to Soviet law and, in par-
ticular, to end their dis-
crimination against the
Jewish minority."
Friday, December 2, 1983 33
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