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Washington (JTA) — A Canadian who participated with American, Canadian, British, Dutch and Israeli wives of members of Con- gress and Parliaments in a three-day conference on Soviet Jewry stressed that their concern for the issue was over the plight of sepa- rated families. "What we are doing is not political," nor is there any `ulterior' motive, Penni Col- linette, wife of Canadian Liberal MP David Col- linette, said at a news con- ference at the end of the In- ternational Conference of Parliamentary Spouses for Soviet Jewry. "What we are doing as wives and mothers is caring about families," she said. "We are caring about families that are not allowed to be together." Collinette added that the women were also asking "why a powerful country such as the Soviet Union, with the Russian well- known love of the family, would do this sort of thing." Helen Jackson, widow of Sen. Henry Jacoson (D- Wash.) and founding co- chairman of the Congres- sional Wives for Soviet Jewry, noted that the con- ference came at a bleak time for Soviet Jews with only 51 allowed to emigrate in March. But she said she was "pleased with the renewed commitment" by the 22 wo-men who participated this week and their deter- mination that the effort for Soviet Jewry must be "in- tensified." The Congressional Wives wa' founded in 1978 under the sponsorship of the Na- tional Conference on Soviet Jewry. In April 1983, they held a meeting with the Canadian Parliamentary Spouses Association in Ot- tawa. The first interna- tional conference which concluded last week will be followed up by a second con- ference in London in 1985. Valerie Cocks of Great Britain said that the U.S. and Canadian groups have inspired the European Par- liamentary wives to form their own organization. She . said that she hoped that the meeting in London will in- clude women from all West European countries. Markye Van Den Bergh of the Netherlands said she found it "remarkable" that non-Jews were so deeply in- volved in the issue since the efforts of Soviet Jewry in Holland was carried out ex- clusively by Jewish groups. She said she planned to change the situation. Tamara Barley, wife of Israeli MK Haim Barley, and Nitza Ben-Elisar, wife of Likud MK Eliahu Ben- Elisar, expressed Israel's gratitude for the efforts the women were making. Mrs. Ben-Elisar said that Israel is "ready and willing and anxious" to receive all the Jews of the USSR in their "historic homeland." Mrs. Barley said "the Jews have no future in Rus- sia" but she believed that "there is a chance the Soviet Union will let them go to Is- rael, and only to Israel" be- cause "to some extent, they do recognize Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people." Although the Canadian spouses group was refused twice by the Soviet Ambas- sador to Canada, Mrs. Jackson said that Soviet Ambassador to Washing- ton, Anatoly Dobrynin, re- fused to see the Congres- sional wives after the Ot- tawa meeting last year or to meet with the international group here last week. The women adopted a resolution which will be presented to the Soviet Am- bassadors in their respec- tive countries. It said they "are resolved: "To press for the release of the prisoners of conscience in the USSR — most nota- bly Anatoly Shcharansky and Iosif Begun who were sentenced to especially long terms. "To press for the reunifi- cation of families — most notably" Ida Nudel, Vla- dimir Tsukerman, Vladimir Slepak and Vladimir Tufeld. "To urge the USSR to allow those who desire, the right to observe, study and practice their religion, lan- guage and culture. "To urge Soviet authorities by all means available to adhere to in- ternationally accepted standards of human rights behavior and the human rights provisions they pledged to respect in the Helsinki Final Act and other international cove- nants." The resolution also said they would seek to have Soviet Ambassadors in their countries "enter into dialogues on Soviet Jewry" and pledge the women "to continue our national and international efforts by in- volving similar groups from other countries." * * * POC Kislak back in Kiev New York (JTA) — Pris- oner of conscience Vladimer Kislak, who had served one year in a labor camp and two years "working for the national economy," has re- turned to his home town of Kiev, it was reported Mon- day by the National Confer- ence on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ). The 49-year-old physicist has been waiting 11 years to join his wife Evgeny and son Maksim in Israel. He plans to renew his application to emigrate, the NCSJ re- ported. Kislak was arrested in March 1981, and sentenced to two months later to three years in a labor camp for "malicious. hooliganism." The sentence was changed in 1982. According to the NCSJ, he participated in a Moscow seminar on Jewish culture in 1976. He was tried on a trumped-up charge of al- legedly attacking a woman on a street. .Aware that there were no witnesses to the supposed incident, the judge pronounced that they were "unnecessary because all the facts are known," the NCSJ said. Reagan reiterates his support for State of Israel New York (JTA) — President Reagan told a group of some 120 Jewish leaders, members of the Jewish Community. Rela- tions Council (JCRC) of New York, that there is an alliance between Israel and the United States and that if Israel is expelled from the United Nations, "We will walk out with her." Reagan met with the Jewish leaders last week in a private meeting in New York. His remarks at the meeting were conveyed later at a press conference by Mrs. Peggy Tishman, president of the JCRC, and Malcolm Hoenlein, its executive director. According to Tishman, Reagan said that the "ugli- ness of anti-Semitism" still existed, pointing out that the "so-called anti-Zionism" in the United Nations, "is just another mask for vici- ous anti-Semitism that the United States will not tolerate." Tishman said that the President said that he had instructed U.N. Ambas- sador Jeane Kirkpatrick to fight against the 1975 Gen- eral Assembly resolution equating Zionism with ra- cism. Tishman also said that, in response to a question re- garding the move of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the President replied that the issue should be "part of the Camp David negotiations." Any attempt to change the status of Jerusalem will pre- judge the issues before negotiations, the President reportedly said. Hoenlein said that the President stressed the spe- cial relations between Is- rael and the United States and noted that the Ameri- can commitment to Israel is based not only on moral consideration but on strategic values as well. Hoenlein also quoted the President as saying that the United States is determined to fight terrorism and that terrorism is a form of "war- fare" and "a scourge" that should be fought against. Reagan arrived in New York two days after the state's Democratic primary in which former Vice President Walter Mondale and Senator Gary Hart made the MideaSt and the moving of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem a major issue.