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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Twinnings, Freedom
Grove Bolster Refuseniks
Presents It's
3rd ANNUAL HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA
BY LISA POLLAK
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 8:30 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
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When approximately 70 par-
ents and their children
gathered, shovels in hand, at
the Soviet Jewry Freedom Grove
at the Jewish Community Cen-
ter Suaday, they were doing
more than planting trees to
landscape the grounds. They
were, in the words of Dr. Robert
Bree, creating a "living testa-
ment to the courage and for-
titude of our brothers and sis-
ters in the Soviet Union."
Dr. Bree, the bar- bat mitzvah
twinning co-chairman of the De-
troit Soviet Jewry Committee,
explained that each tree in the
grove represents a young Soviet
refusnik who had been ."twin-
ned" at the bar or bat mitzvah
of an American youngster.
Speakers at the second annual
ceremony stressed the need for
constant prayer and hope that
the '10,000 refusniks will be
granted their freedom, "before
the trees are firmly rooted in
the ground.".
The twinning program, in ef-
fect since 1978, begins when an
American obtains the name of a
young Soviet refusnik from the
the Soviet Jewry Committee. So
many Americans wish to share
the b'nai mitzvah, said Dr. Bree,
that some refusniks' actually go
through the process hundreds of
times. This does not diminish
the symbolic significance, he
added.
Sheri Wagner, 13, of West
Bloomfield, not only shared her
bat mitzvah with a Soviet twin,
but managed to establish corre-
spondence as well. She contin-
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ued her commitment by forming
a fundraising committee in her
Shaarey Zedek Hebrew school
class. Sheri and her classmates
have raised $1,000 for the
Soviet Jewry Fund.
More and more Soviet JeWs•,-
unable to practice their faith
and plagued by anti-semitism,
°are being denied their rights,
according to Dr. Bree. So is the
Detroit Soviet Jewry Committee
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losing hope? No, says th co-
chairman, the precedent se -by
the release of tens of thousands
of Soviet Jews in the early
1970s offers "no reason why
they can't start again — given
the right pressure and motiva-
tion."
"Awareness of the plight," the
DSJC stresses, is the first step
in helping to get the Jews out.
Though they have been suc-
cessful in convincing many
politicians and leaders to ad-
dress the problem, the young
Jews are their true concern. In
fact, Dr. Bree fears that as the
twinning process becomes more
"automatic," the "kids aren't
understanding it as well as they
should." What is needed, he
feels, is for the Hebrew schools
to go over the process in detail.
Nonetheless, those involved
hope the .twinning program will
increase in size until the antici-
pated day when all Soviet Jews
will be free to worship as they
please. Sheri Wagner, for one,
hopes it will be soon. "No Jew is
free," she says standing amid
the freshly planted trees, "until
all Jews are free."
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Soviet Role 'Possible'
10 p.m. — 11 p.m. GAYNORS GHOULING GIANT GREAT SPECIALS!
Jerusalem (JTA) — Premier
Shimon Peres has made clear
that he sees a possible future
role for the Soviet Union in the
Middle East peace process, a
position which differs sharply
from the stand of foreign Minis-
ter Vitzhak Shamir. But he
flatly denied a press report that
Israel has offered to withdraw
from the Golan Heights if Mos-
cow would restore diplomatic
ties.
The matter was raised during
Sunday's Cabinet meeting by
Vossef Shapira of the religious
party, Morasha, on the basis of
a report in Yediot Achronot that
Peres had asked World Jewish
Congress president Edgar
Bronfman to convey the offer
during his visit to the USSR
last month. Peres said he made
no such request of Bronfman nor
did Bronfman take up such mat-
ters with Soviet officials.
Peres refused Shapira's re-
quest that he meet with Golan
settlers who are agitated over
the report, because they pounced
on it without bothering, to ascer-
tain whether it was true.
Shamir, who is Deputy Pre-
mier and leader of Likud, said
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in Washington last Wednesday
that he would oppose an inter-
national peace conference on the
Middle East with Soviet partici-
pation even if the Soviets re-
stored diplomatic relations with
Israel.
Israeli Scientists
Change Artichoke
Jerusalem — New varieties of
artichokes and methods for
growing them have been de- -
veloped by scientists at the He-
brew University of Jerusalem.
Yehuda Basnitzki and Prof.
Daniel Zohary of the depart-
ment of genetics at the univer-
sity's Alexander Silberman In-
stitute of Life Sciences have
succeeded in breeding seed-
propagated varieties of ar-
tichokes.
Until now, the artichoke has
generally been propagated veg-
etatively, that is, by planting
cuttings. With the new ag-
rotechniques developed by the
Hebrew Unifersity scientists,
artichokes can now be treated as
any other annual, seed-sown
vegetable.