24 Friday, November 9, 1984
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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New York (JTA) — Alexandra
Finkelstein, who last December
was permitted with her family to
emigrate from the Soviet Union
after a 12-year struggle, told re-
porters of the harassment by
Soviet authorities of refusenik
families, and warned of the effects,
this persecution can have on their
children.
"Our worst problem is that
children, as children, are born to
be free and free-minded," she told
a news conference at the offices of
the National Council of Jewish
Women. "Their logical question is
to ask, why."
Finkelstein recalled when her
daugher Miriam, now 10 years
old, began school in the Soviet
Union and came home one day to
ask her mother, "Wouldn't be bet-
ter for us not be Jews?"
She asserted that the headmas-
ter and school teacher at the
school were informed to be "atten-
tive". of Miriam and made aware
of who her parents were. She said
that children, just as adults, are
subjected to anti-Jewish and
anti-Zionist propaganda.
Finkelstein, a marine biologist,
is in the United States to kick off a
series of gatherings across the
country to focus attention on the
plight of Soviet Jewry. These
events will be held under the au-
spices of the Women's Plea for
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comprised of the constituent
organizations of the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry.
The National Council of Jewish
Women has been designated na-
tional convenors of this year's
Women's Plea.
Finkelstein and her husband,
Eitan, first applied for exit visas
in 1971. She was forced to leave
her position with the Institute of
Oceanography at the USSR
Academy of Science. She was later
forced to live apart from her hus-
band, with Eitan in Vilnius while
she stayed in Moscow. They cur-
rently live in Ra'anana, Israel.
Meanwhile, Morris Abram,
chairman of the NCSJ, told a
synagogue audience that he was
confident. that negotiations be-
tween the United States and the
Soviet Union would eventually
"win freedom for vast numbers of
Soviet Jews who want to emi-
grate."
In a related development, with
only 29 Jews granted exit visas
from the Soviet Union during Oc-
tober, monthly Jewish emigration
has fallen to its lowest level in
over 20 years, the NCSJ reported.
The figure brings the total
number of Soviet Jews permitted
to emigrate during the firgt 10
months of 1984 to 750.
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New York (JTA) — Democrat
Walter Mondale, in his final
Presidential campaign before a
Jewish group last week, warned of
an "orgy of intolerance" in
America led by fundamentalist
"preachers against pluralism and
those who would cast doubt on the
loyalties of Jewish Americans."
Addressing some 1,000 senior
citizens in the Brighton Beach
section of Brooklyn, Mondale as-
sailed "fundamentalist Christian
preachers with television minis-
Envoy criticizes
'82 Reagan initiative
Tel Aviv (JTA) — U.S. Ambas-
sador Samuel Lewis, sharply crit-
ical of the timing and presenta-
tion of President Reagan's 1982
Middle East peace initiative, has
termed it nevertheless "a genuine,
effort to recreate momentum, to
relaunch the Camp David agree-
ment with some embellishment
but fundamentally on the same
terms," so far without success.
Lewis, the American envoy to
Israel since 1977, spoke at a Tel
Aviv University seminar session
last week examining the causes of
"the stalemate in the Camp David
process." The seminar's overall
theme was "Six years since Camp
David." Premier Shimon Peres
also addressed the seminar.
Lewis did not enter into the
substance of the Reagan initiative
but raised considerable surprise
by his strong condemnation of the
President's tactics. "The timing
was, in my judgement, abysmal,
the tactics of its presentation
worse, and the outcome, so far,
nil," the American Ambassador
said.
tries" who, he said, "are
(President Reagan's allies."
Mondale said, "Anti-Semitism
is not dead but continues to be a
vicious disease."
In St. Louis, the executive di-
rector of the American Jewish
Congress challenged President
Reagan to "muster the integrity
and courage" to repudiate those
who equate patriotism with "nar-
row Christian fundamentalism."
Speaking at the eighth Na-
tional Workshop on Jewish-
Christian Relations, Henry
Siegman told a group of Christian
and Jewish theologians that if the
President continues to encourage
those who want "to join the cross
and the flag," members of minor-
ity religions will be turned into
"outsiders and strangers in their
own land."
Full-page advertisements ad-
vocating religious influence on
public policy have appeared twice
in the last week before the elec-
tion in the Detroit News. The ads
were placed by the Arthur S. De-
Moss Foundation of Philadelphia
and showed sketches of early
Presidents of the U.S. The ads
gave a quote from each President
which was related to the ad's main
headline: "Religion's influence on
public policy has had a long and
distinguished history."
Vegetarian news
Baltimore (JTA) — The Jewish
Vegetarians organization has
published a newsletter that con-
tains no-cholesterol recipes, arti-
cles on Jewish holidays and veg-
etarianism and reports on Jewish
vegetarianism in the United
States and Israel.
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