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 * * 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." 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