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Soviet Jews has worsened.
Other Jewish leaders in
Geneva included Gerald Kraft of
B'nai B'rith, Rabbi Marvin Hier
of the Simon Wiesenthal Center
in Los Angeles, and Avraham
Harman of the Israeli Council
for Soviet Jewry. The executive
committee of the World Council
on Soviet Jewry told reporters
in Geneva that the plight of
Soviet Jewry remains critical:
21 Soviet Jewish activists are in
prison or internal exile and only
24 Jews were allowed to leave
the Soviet Union last month.
In an impassioned speech to
the Knesset on behalf of Soviet
Jews, Israeli Premier Shimon
Peres appealed to Reagan and
Gorbachev to address these con-
cerns. "Tomorrow millions of
people will turn their eyes to
Geneva in the hope that the
leaders of the two superpowers
will place on their agenda
humane items as well, and not
just their own self-evident na-
tional interests," Peres declared.
"I call on the leaders of the
Soviet Union: Remember the
suffering of individuals, the di-
vided families, the motherless
children, the longings of women
for their imprisoned husbands.
Let our people go." Peres noted
that the Soviet Union was a
country of many ethnic groups,
each one of which has its home-
land within the borders of the
USSR, "except the Jews whose
homeland is Israel."
He recalled the Soviets' fight
against Nazism and their early
recognition and support for the
Jewish State and the idea of
Jewish nationalism attached to
the Land of Israel. He said Is-
rael agreed with the USSR that
Jewish emigration must not be
seen simply as migration from
the USSR but as a reunion of
people with their homeland. For
that reason, he said, Israel seeks
to establish direct flights from
Russia to Israel.
The Premier also defends
quiet, discreet diplomacy aimed
at opening the gates, a policy
that has come under attack in
some Jewish quarters.
Messages on behalf of Soviet
Jewry have been sent to Reagan
and Gorbachev by the Par-
liamentary Assembly of the
Council of the Council of Europe
and human rights organizations
throughout the world.
Mayors of 101 U.S. cities, in-
cluding Livonia's Edward
McNamara and Oak Park's
Charlotte Rothstein, sent a let-
ter to Reagan asking him to
pressure the Soviet Union on
human rights. The letter was
reprinted in the Washington
Post by the National Jewish
Community Relations Advisory
Council and the National Con-
ference on Soviet Jewry.
A Reagan Administration offi-
cial told reporters last week
there is no need for new agree-
ments on human rights because
everything necessary is in the
Helsinki Accords. "We don't
need anything further other
than human rights adherence,"
he said.
On Sunday, major demonstra-
tions were held in New York
and Washington on behalf of
Soviet Jewry. Catholic, Protes-
tant, Greek Orthodox and
Jewish clergymen lit candles on
the steps of the Park East
Synagogue in New York, across
the street from the Soviet Mis-
sion to the United Nations.
In Washington, 1,200 demon-
strators rallied in Lafayette
Park, across from the White
House, while 49 rabbis, teachers
and Soviet Jewry activists were
arrested for demonstrating near
the Soviet Embassy. The Em-
bassy protest, sponsored by the
Washington Board of Rabbis,
brings to 90 the number of per-
sons arrested at the Embassy
since last May.
The only pre-summit gesture
on human rights that has been
made by the Soviets is an-
nouncement of the release of 10
spoused among 25 divided-
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Thirteen third-grade students at Akiva• Hebrew Day
School recently completed reports on freedom in the Soviet
Union vs. freedom in the U.S. as a follow-up to the visit to the
school of former Soviet refusenick Yosef Mendelevich. One of
teacher Retta London's students was Hana Fedyukova, an
emigrant from the Soviet Union. Her report stated:
"You can't read the Torah. You can't pray to Hashem.
You can't celebrate Shabbat. And if you do, they will throw
you in jail.
"Boys can't wear kipot. And they have to study under-
ground. If they get caught, they have to go to jail.
"We were not free in Russia. We can pray to Hashem.
Boys can wear kipot. They are free. And we do not have to go
to jail if we pray."
Hana concluded her report with an illustration of a young
girl saying, "We are free!" Hana is a native of Kaunas,
Lithuania. This is the second year that she and an older sister
have attended Akiva.
Other students submitting reports were Nichole
Englehardt, Helen Jarcaig, Aliza Burstyn, Aaron Schon,
Marcy Eisenberg, Geoffrey Dworkin, Steven Strimling,
Zachary Herman, Chaim Tolwin, Cori Letvin, Shana Subelsky
and David Tytell.