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16 Jailed Following NY
Soviet Jewry Protest
New York (JTA) — Chanting
Am Yisroel chai ("the people Is-
rael lives"), and carrying posters
of Soviet Jewish dissidents, 16
people, including 14 rabbis from
the New York metropolitan area,
were arrested last Wednesday
after staging a protest demonstra-
tion at the entrance to the Soviet
mission to the United Nations.
The police charged them with
"disorderly conduct" and sum-
moned them for a court hearing on
June 3.
The demonstration was spon-
sored by the Student Struggle for
Soviet Jewry, the Rabbinical As-
sembly and the New York Board
of Rabi**- - Similar demonstra-
tions were held simultaneously in
front of the Soviet Embassy in
Washington and the Soviet consu-
late in San Francisco.
"We are here today to protest
the on-going persecution of our
brethren in the Soviet Union,"
Rabbi Allan Meyerowitz, Soviet
Jewry chairman of the Rabbinical
Assembly said in a short speech to
the demonstrators. "We are act-
ing today to prevent memorial
meetings for Russian Jews 40
years from now. The Kremlin,
through the KGB, is in the midst
of a vicious attack on the third
largest Jewish community in the
world."
He said that the demonstration
was held last Wednesday in order
to show that the ideals of the
Soviet revolution, which is cele-
brated May 1, did not apply to the
Jewish citizens of the Soviet
Union.
The demonstrators wore prayer
shawls, blew the shofar and re-
cited prayers. They also read from
a Sefer Torah (Torah scroll), and
took it with them to the police sta-
tion where they were booked.
New York (JTA) — The Student
Struggle for Soviet Jewry and
Long Island Committee for Soviet
Jewry reported last week that
Prisoner of Conscience Iosef
Begun has been transferred from
the Perm labor camp to the
notorious Cristopol Prison. His
wife Inna was informed that
Begun was tried on April 3, evi-
dently within the camp, and sent
to Chistopol four days later. A let-
ter from the prison administra-
tion gave no other details.
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And thus Bitburg becomes part
"exploiting" the Holocaust and
of history.
the Rev. Jesse Jackson seemed to
It becomes part of a history
embody this sentiment when, dur-
which already has more than its
ing a visit to the Middle East, he
share of moral symbolism.
said he was tired of hearing about
But President Reagan managed
it.
to create more agony for Jews and
Thus, if nothing else, the criti-
non-Jews alike by his failure to
cism expressed by Jews and non-
fully comprehend the moral im-
Jews was a welcome reaffirma-
plications of his attempt to bal-
tion of the world's revulsion of all
ance morality with its exact oppo-
the Holocaust meant and still
site.
means.
Succumbing to the traditional
If nothing else, it was reassur-
political formula of giving equal
ing to hear the people throughout
time to both sides of a political
the world, including Germans,
debate, he decided, in the end, to
commit themselves once more to
visit a concentration camp while
"never again" and it forced the
"staying the course" with the Bit-
world once more to debate such
burg cemetery visit.
concepts as "collective guilt" and
What he failed to grasp was the
"reconciliation."
two are not equatable and he also
Indeed, the apparent consensus
never fully seemed to understand
among Jews throughout the world
—.outside of political terms — the
was another positive effect of Bit-
meaning of his cemetery visit.
burg.
It was not "morally right," al-
Seldom have Jews coalesced
though one may grant him that it
with such apparent unanimity
was "politically correct." But
about a political issue. Seldom
again, morality and politics do not
have they united to publicly ex-
always share the same objectives.
press their views with such emo-
Indeed, cynics might offer they
tion and conviction. And seldom
never do.
have their voices been heard with
Mr. Reagan's regrettable deci-
such political sensitivity around
sion notwithstanding, his actions
the world.
produced some important and
True, the President did not
welcome side-effects.
change his mind. True, he visited
It reawakened the world to the
Bitburg as planned.
meaning of the Holocaust as no
But in the process he reawak-
memorial ceremony or anniver-
ened a spirit which so badly
sary might have done.
needed to be reawakened. He in-
Frequently, many have feared
advertently gave. the world a shot
that this generation and perhaps
of moral adrenalin which will
even others before it might just as
serve the best interests of not just
soon forget Hitlerism and all its
Jews but others suffering
meaning.
throughout the world.
All too often there have been
And that may be the most im-
implications that Jews were
portant lesson of Bitburg.
For the Goldman Family, and
In My Own Behalf .
Since 1950
The Bitburg Failure
Was The World's Gain
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