10 Friday, July 6, 1984
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
NEWS
Refusenik sentenced to three years
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New York (JTA), —
Zakhar Zunshain, a re-
fusenik for more than two
years, was sentenced last
week to three years in a
prison on charges of spread-
ing lies about the Soviet
Union, the Student Strug-
gle for Soviet Jewry re-
ported.
Zunshain was arrested in
March when he and three of
his friends attempted to
publicly protest the denial
of their exit visas in front of
the Bolshoi Theater in Mos-
cow.
The SSSJ also reported
that Anatoly Shcharansky,
who was scheduled to be vis-
ited by his mother and
brother last Thursday, his
tenth wedding anniversary,
suddenly had permission for
the visit withdrawn.
Shcharansky's wife, Avital,
emigrated to Israel, the day
after their wedding and has
spent the last ten years
seeking to gain her hus-
band's freedom from the
USSR.
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(Sasha) Yakir, the son of
long term refuseniks
Evgeny and Rimma Yakir,
is scheduled to stand trial
this month on charges of
"draft evasion," according
to the National Conference
on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ).
Arrested in Moscow on June
18, he faces up to three
years in prison. His family
applied to leave for Israel in
1973.
The NCSJ also reported
that Lev Elbert, the 35-
year-old construction
engineer and long-time par-
ticipant in the Jewish emig-
ration and cultural move-
ment, was released on
schedule on June 20 after
serving one year in prison
for alleged "draft evasion."
He returned to his wife,
Inna and son Karmi in Kiev
to discover that his phone
was disconnected, the NCSJ
said. Elbert has been wait-
ing with his family for over
eight years for permission
to join their relatives in Is-
rael.
The NCSJ also reported
when they signed the docu
ment.
Porter's resolution desig
nates Aug. 1 as Helsink
Human Rights Day. It calla
upon the President to reas-
sert the United States
commitment to the Helsinki
Accords and to continue hir
effort to achieve full im.
plementation of the human
rights and humanitarian
provisions of the Helsinki
Accords by raising the issue
of noncompliance with
authorities of the Soviet
Union.
Meanwhile, a group of 20
Leningrad refuseniks has
declared June 28 to be an
International Day of Prayer
to emphasize the ancient
Jewish commandment of
Pidyon Shevuim, the rescue
of captives.
.
Magazine finds
no anti-Semitism
in Nicaragua
New York — Charges
that the Sandinista gov-
ernment in Nicaragua is
anti-Semitic and has been
guilty of discrimination
against the country's
Jewish community are un-
founded, according to a re-
port in the current issue of
Reform Judaism.
The magazine, which is
fear of arrest and exile to
published by the Union of
prison and labor camps on
American Hebrew Congre-
trumped-up charges.
gations, reports that the
Thousands have been sepa-
charges originated with a
rated from their families
small group of Nicaraguan
and seek to leave the op-
Jews now living in the
pression of the Soviet Hillel director
United States who were
Union, yet the Russian
Washington — Larry former supporters of the
authorities deny their very
existence. How could over Moses, executive director of Somoza regime.
"The Sandinistas can be
200 men of God turn a blind the Bureau of Jewish Edu-
eye and make themselves cation of San Francisco, charged with many sins, in-
Marin
County
and
the
cluding insensitivity and
party to both the denial and
the oppression itself?" Peninsula, as been named ineptness," the report said.
international director of "But no credible evidence to
Jacobs asked.
B'nai B'rith Hillel Founda- support a charge of anti-
Jacobs discounted the ob- tions.
Semitism could be found."
servations of church and
synagogue services which
were shown these clergy-
men by the Russian
authorities as "no more in-
dicative of religious free-
dom in the Soviet Union
than Stalin's show trials of
Buenos Aires (JTA) — Fayt, in his acceptance re-
the '30s were evidence of
Carlos
Fayt, Minister of the marks, called anti-
justice in its legal system.
Argentine Supreme Court, Semitism "the cancer of the
"such institutions are
human mind." He said "I
run by government paid and a long-time foe of anti-
controlled officials and lack Semitism and champion of learned to love the
the rights of Soviet Jews, Jewish people without any
more than just Bibles and
was
presented with the an- ulterior motive." He called
religious articles. They are
designed to stifle true reli- nual Human Rights Award for strengthening efforts on
gious feeling in the Russian of the Latin American behalf of Soviet Jewry.
people, in accordance with branch of the World Jewish
Faigon noted that Fayt
atheistic ideology of the Congress here Sunday.
The presentation was had been a vice president of
Communist state."
the Committee for Soviet
Jacobs said he was made by Gregorio Faigon, Jewry when he was named
chairman
of
the
WJC
Latin
shocked "that American
Minister of the Supreme
clergymen, who enjoy the American branch at cere- Court and was a participant
liberties of the United monies attended by Vice in the second Brussels con-
States, could do no better President Victor Martinez ference on Soviet Jewry.
than express their 'irrita- of Argentina. Martinez
tion that the harmony of praised Fayt as one of the
Hilel Rubison, Secretary
their visit had been marred' country's outstanding fig- General of the DAIA, de-
ures
in
the
field
of
human
by the pleas of their op-
scribed the ceremony as "a
pressed co-religionists for rights. He was nominated vibrant demonstration for
for
the
award
by
the
DAIA, the rule of human rights in
religious freedom in Rus-
the central representative Argentina and in all of
sia."
body of Argentine Jewry. Latin America."
•
Young Israel leader blasts
church body on Russia visit
New York (JTA) —
Harold M. Jacobs, president
of the National Council of
Young Israel, condemned
the statements issued by
leaders of the National
Council of Churches follow-
ing a visit by more than 200
American clergy to the
Soviet Union as a "deliber-
ate and flagrant collabora-
tion with the Russian prop-
aganda campaign to cover
up its wholesale violations
of human rights."
The Young Israel leader
compared the statements of
the tour's spokesmen to the
actions of French President
Francois Mitterrand, who,
visiting the Soviet Union at
the same time, raised the
issue of the violations of the
human rights of Andrei
Sakharov.
Jacobs asked, "If a
socialist head of state could
find the moral courage to
speak out on the denial of
the human rights of a single
man and his wife in the
Soviet Union, how could
hundreds of American cler-
gymen fail to register their
protests at the systematic
persecution of legitimate
religious feelings of the
Russian people?
"We of the American
Jewish community know
that the Jewish religious
heritage is being ruthlessly
stamped out in the Soviet
Union. Those Russian Jews
who seek that heritage
must meet and study in
secret. They live in constant
that 72 Jews were granted
permission to emigrate
from the Soviet Union dur-
ing the month of June. The
monthly average over the
past six months has been 80
Jews, the NCSJ said.
In a related development,
Israelis had anxious hours
Monday after Israel Radio
reported that former
President Ephraim Katzir
had been detained by Soviet
authorities in Leningrad.
Telephone calls to his
hotel and other locations in
Leningrad yielded no in-
formation. But Israeli offi-
cials finally tracked him
down at his Moscow hotel at
noon Monday. Katzir de-
clined to say anything of his
experience by phone, other
than that he was well.
Katzir, a bio-chemist who
was president of Israel from
1975 to 1978, went to the
Soviet Union for a scientific
meeting. According to Is-
rael Radio he was visiting a
family of refuseniks in
Leningrad when he and
other visitors were de-
tained, apparently by the
KGB. It is not known here
for how long he was held.
In Washington, Cong.
John Porter (R-Ill.) intro-
duced a resolution that
marks the anniversary of
the Helsinki Accords with, a
call for the Soviet Union
and Eastern nations to
adhere to the human rights
standards they agreed to
World Jewish Congress
honors human rights leader