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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -
Rabbis appeal
for Soviet Jewry
San Francisco (JTA) -
Twenty rabbis sat across
the street from the Soviet
consulate in San Francisco
last week, fasting, pray-
ing, and studying passages
relating to the redemption
of captives it was reported
by the Bay Area Council on
Soviet Jewry.
The rabbis later at-
tempted to deliver to the
Soviet consul general a let-
ter of protest, signed by all
members of the Board of
Rabbis of Northern Califor-
nia, but no one would open
the gate to receive it.
The
demonstration,
which was one of many held
around the world on March
15, declared an "interna-
tional day of concern for
Soviet Jewry."
March 15 marked the an-
niversary of the arrest,
seven years ago, of Anatoly
Scharansky. It is also
exactly one year since the
arrest of Soviet Jewish pris-
oner of conscience Yuri
Tarnopolsky, who has been
on a hunger strike in a labor
camp since Feb. 10. (In De-,_
troit, Jews from throughout
the community held a rally
on behalf of Shcharansky
and other Soviet Jewish re-
fusniks.)
In New York, the Inter-
national Day of Solidarity
with Soviet Jews was
marked by a rally opposite
to the Soviet Mission to the
United Nations here.
Meanwhile, five Hispanic
organizations joined the
Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith to press Soviet
curtailment of Jewish
emigration. At the end of
their meeting at the Park
East Synagogue, across the
street from the Soviet Mis-
sion to the United Nations,
representatives of the His-
panic organizations left a
letter of protest at the steps
of the mission.
In Washington, Bnai
Brith International, which
has been "adopting" indi-
vidual Soviet Jewish refus-
niks over the last several
years, announced that it
will take that concept a
giant step further by
"adopting" entire Soviet
Jewish communities.
In letters to Bnai Brith
leaders around the world,
Bnai Brith President
Gerald Kraft and Executive
Vice President Dr. Daniel
Thursz said that the Jewish
service organization's local
councils will be paired with
cities in the Soviet Union in
an ongoing program.
In a related development,
President Reagan has
pledged that in all of his
Administration's dis-
cussions with the Soviet
government "we have no
higher priority" than
human rights for Soviet
Jews and others in the
USSR.
In Jerusalem, President
Chaim Herzog and Premier
Yitzhak Shamir urged the
Soviet Union to re-open its
gates to the emigration of
Jews who wish to join their
families in Israel.
It also was learned that
Chicago Action for Soviet
Jewry, a member of the
Union of Councils for Soviet
Jews, successfully placed a
telephone call to Tatiana
Zunshine of Riga, USSR,
whose husband Zachar
awaits trial in an isolated
prison cell for "spreading
anti-Soviet propaganda and
defamation of the Soviet
state."
The Zunshines first
applied to emigrate to Israel
3 1/2 years ago, their last re-
fusal in December 1982.
While they have an aunt
and uncle in Haifa, Israel,
they were refused for "insuf-
ficient" reason. (First-
degree relatives are the
only "sufficient" reason.)
Meanwhile, in what the
Student Struggle for Soviet
Jewry termed "the opening
shot of the official 'Anti-
Zionist Committee of the
Soviet Public' campaign 'to
export its anti-Israel hate
abroad," a $1,000, two-page
ad has been placed in the
Chicago Jewish Sentinel re-
printing an "anti-Zionist"
tract released late last year
in the USSR.
The ad was sponsored by
"Jewish Americans for
World Peace," three of
whose 16 listed memebrs
are leading officials of the
American Communist
Party. According to the
SSSJ, of the .53 Soviet
signers of the original
document, two are known
Jewish anti-Semitic
authors and at least eight
are listed in Soviet texts as
leaders of the "Anti-Zionist
Committee."
The SSSJ said that the
Soviet document, without
the supporting American
statement, had been first
printed in a booklet, An
Open Letter to Jews in the
United States, distributed
by the Soviet Embassy and
UN Mission, and reprinted
in the Daily World and
People's World, both organs
of the U.S. Commist Party.
The text charges that
"certain quarters" are op-
posing detente "by hypocrit-
ical 'concern for Soviet
Jews,' " declares that "the
reality fully refutes the
slanders of Western prop-
aganda to the effect that 'of-
ficial anti-Semitism' exists
in the USSR," claims "slan-
derous" the "attempts to as-
cribe to the Soviet Union a
desire 'to destroy Israel,' "
and attacks the "aggressive
policy of the Israeli ruling
elite" which "arouses the
indignation of the whole of
world public opinion."
The Soviet text includes
signatures by 'Anti-Zionist
Committee" chairman
David Dragunsky, and lead-
ing members Genrikh Gof-
man, Samuel Zivs, Mark
Krupkin, Yuri Kolesnikov,
Martin Kabachnik, Gen-
rikas Zimanas and Grigory
Dondarevsky. Kosenikov
and another signer, Tzesar
Solodar, have authored
many "self-hating, anti-
Zionist, anti-Semitic arti-
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