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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Human rights groups express
concern for Soviet. Jewry
Washington (JTA) —
Warning that the situation
for Soviet Jewry is becom-
ing "desperate," 34Jewish,
Christian, peace, human
rights and black organiza-
tions sent a cable to Soviet
President Konstantin
Chernenko and Soviet pro-
secutors Monday urging
them to revoke a two-year
sentence against a 28-
year-old Moscow Jewish re-
fusenik.
The refusenik, Aleksandr
Yakir, an electrical
engineer, was on trial last
week after being arrested
June 18 for draft evasion
and the sentence was an-
nounced this week. An ap-
peal is scheduled to be heard '
today in Moscow at which
time it is expected to be an-
nounced whether the sen-
tence is to be served in a
labor camp, or Soviet
prison.
At a press conference at
the Union of American He-
brew Congregation's Reli-
gious Action Center here,
Rabbi David Saperstein,
co-director and counsel of
the center, said this was the
first time that "such broad
coalition of organizations
joined together to speak
out" on a single case.
The coalition, which had
sent a cable to Soviet lead-
ers before the trial, also sent
telegrams to President
Reagan, Democratic
Presidential Candidate
Walter Mondale, and Secre-
taiy'of State George Shultz
urging them to intervene on
behalf of Yakir. At the press
conference, statements
were released from the
White House and Mondale.
In a related development,
Soviet Jewist refusenik
Aleksandr Kholmiansky of
Moscow, a 34-year-old He-
brew teacher, has been ar-
rested and is being charged
with hooliganism, accord-
ing to information received
last week by the Greater
New York Conference on
Soviet Jewry in New York.
Kholmiansky, who has
been waiting for permission
to emigrate since 1978,
faces up to a year in prison
on the accusation that he
trampled on,some flowers in
a public park. He has been
in confinement since late
July, but no trial date has
been announced.
In Jerusalem last week,
Premier Yitzhak Shamir
appealed to world public
opinion to press for the re-
lease of Soviet Jewish Pris-
oner of Conscience losif Be-
* gun, who is currently serv-
ing a 12-year prison term
for "anti-Soviet agitation."
Shamir told the Cabinet
Aug. 4 that Begun's health
had suddenly deteriorated.
The Soviet authorities,
Shamir said, allowed Begun
to receive medical treat-
ment in a prison hospital
after he was held in con-
finement, but he was re-
turned to solitary 6onfine-
ment after the treatment:
Meanwhile, according to
an unconfirmed report from
the Agence France - news
bureau, a contingent of 50
members of an unofficial,
dissident peace group were
arrested in Moscow Aug. 8,
the Union . of Councils for
Soviet Jews reported. The
organization, Group for the
Establishment of Trust Be-
tween the USSR and the
United'States, was holding
a meeting in a Moscow
apartment when the build-
ing was raided by the Rus-
sian police, according to
spokesman Vladimir
Brodsky.
Newly-elected MK Kahane
could lose U.S citizenship
Washington (JTA) — The
State Department is study-
ing whether Rabb Meir
Kahane should be stripped
of his United States citizen-
ship now that he has sworn
allegiance to a foreign gov-
ernment in taking a seat in
the Knesset this week.
would then have a year in
which to appeal to the De-
partment's Appellate Re-
view Board, an autonomous
body made up of three per-
sons not in the Consular Af-
fairs Bureau.
Interior Minister Yosef
Burg, who was acting
Speaker, demanded that
But State Departnient Kahane take the pledge or
deputy spokesman Alan he would not be a member of
Romberg stressed Tuesday Parliament.
that it is a "very long proc-
During Tisha b'Av cere-
ess, very complicated" and monies at the Mughrabi
will take "several months or Gate to the Old City last
longer." Romberg had indi- week, Kahane was the only
cated, after the controver- person allowed through the
sial founder ,of the Jewish gate to the entrance of the
Defense League was elected Temple Mount. Police
last month to the Knesset, allowed the newly-elected
that he might lose his citi- MK to enter the Temple
zenship.
Without arresting him be-
Romberg added that cause of the immunity he
there had been two previous now enjoys as a member of
cases of Knesset members the Knesset.
who lost their citizenship,
At least one Israeli offi-
one of whom was reinstated cial believes Kahane got
and the other who lost his some uneipected support
American citizenship.
from Israeli-Arab voters in
Whether Kahane will his July 23 election bid. Ac-
lose his citizenship will be cording to an Israeli expert
determined by the State on Arab-Jewish relations.
Department's Bureau of Moshe Gabbay, director of
Consular Affairs, which the Arabs Studies Institute
will look inta "all the relev- of the Givat Haviva Center
ant circumstances," Rom- for Advanced Studies, as
berg said. If Kahane's citi- many as 500 Arabs may
zenship is revoked, he have voted for Kahane.
OBITUARIES
Rabbi Joseph Greenwald
New York (JTA) — Rabbi
Joseph Greenwald,
president of the Rabbinical
Congress of the United
States and Canada in the .
Williamsburg section of
Brooklyn, a 'center of the
Satmar Chasidic Move-
ment, died Aug. 11 at age
81.
While Rabbi Greenwald
had served as president of
the congress, he was in fact'
founder and head. of the
Pupa Chasidic movement
which he built into a
worldwide movement of
some 100,000 members and
he was not a Satmar Chasid.
He survived a death camp
where his wife and 10 chil-
dren perished, He emi-
grated from Pupa, Hun-
gary, after World War II,
coming to the United States
where he created orphan-
ages and schools for other
refugees from Pupa. His
son, Jacob is expected, in
the dynastic manner of
Chasidic groups, to succeed
him as Pupa V,ebbe.
.
,
Brandeis founder
Brookline, Mass. —
Joseph F. Ford, one of the
seven original trustees who
founded Brandeis Univer-
sity in 1948, died Aug. 11 at
age 93.
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