47- 0a;;; ;;*-111:i.j as. LOCAL NEWS Re-elect etta Miller Pickets Continued from Page 1 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION We must support a quality public school system that is relevant to the educational needs of all citizens—rural, urban and suburban. • Named "Outstanding Educator of the Year" by • 16 year member of the State Board of Educa- the Michigan Elementary and Middle School tion. Principals Association, 1983. • First member to be. appointed a Commissioner of the Education-Commission of the States. • Honorary lifetime member, Michigan Education Association. Vote for the TWO DEMOCRATS for State Board of Education - ANNETTA MILLER GUMECINDO SALAS The following are a few of the Michigan citizens who urge you to join them in voting for ANNETTA MILLER: Barbara Goldman Bert & Zeta Gordon Rep. David Gubow Dr. Alberto & Nancy Hodari Sheridan & Gloria Holtzman Jack den Gilda Jacobs Marilyn Jean Kelly Dr. Bernie Klein Dr. Arnold Leshman Senator Carl Levin Congressman Sander Levin Dr. Harry & Margaret Meisner Dr.*& Mrs. George Miller Fred & Grace Miller Dr. & Mrs. Robert Miller Harriet Amowit Rep. Maxine Berman Dr. Eli & Estelle Brown Dr. & Mrs. Morris Brown Dr. & Mrs. 0. W. Brown Dr. & Mrs. Irving Burton Hy Dooha Erwin Ellman Gene Farber Joe & Lilo Fauman Senator Jack Faxon . Dr. Sam & Babe Fink Hannah Levin Gladstone Morris Gleicher. Cathy Greenberg & Dan Klein Re-elect Dr. Sidney S. Miller Dr. Charles Morton Robert Naftaly Marvin Novick Lillian Jaffe Oaks Arlene & Eric Oppenheim Dr. Valerie Overholt Ruth Redstone Felix & FayAnn Resnick Dr. & Mrs. Solomon Rosenblatt Jeanette Ross Jordan Rossen Hon. Charlotte Rothstein Arnold Sabaroff Bea & Abe Sackg Beatrice Sandweiss Dr. Howard Schubiner Ethel & Perry Schwartz Gary & Joelle Sklar Dr. Harry & Shirley Sklar Levi & Barbara Smith Sue Smock Ned Smokier Teddi Smokier Dianne E. Solomon Jerome H. Solomon Sylvia Steinberger Kathleen Straus David & Rosemary Wolock Evelyn Zeidman etta Miller STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION Paid for by the Committee to Re-Elect Annetta Miller, State Board of Education; Treasurer, Merrill Gordon, 24800 Northwestern Hwy., Southfield, MI 48075 30 Friday, October 31, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS fore the Saturday evening Weiner, chairman of the and Sunday afternoon per- DSJC. "We hope that there formances. will be no trouble here. We Burt Rosenthal, general hope that people will say that manager of radio station the Jewish community is WQRS which is co-sponsoring making the appropriate re- the Moiseyev visit, told The sponse and individuals won't Jewish News that the dancers feel the need to take "are coming in for a cultural stronger, inappropriate ac- performance. They are not tion." political." The leaflets which will be The men who arranged for distributed outside Masonic the local Moiseyev appear- Temple look like the ance through the Nederlan- Moiseyev program. Inside, der Organization — sponsor however, is a photograph of Rosenthal and Masonic refugees, a statement on events manager Alan Soviet human rights issues Lichtenstein — are both and a list of Soviet Jewish re- Jewish. Rosenthal called that fuseniks. The leaflet also con- "ironic." "I know the prob- tains a tear-out post card, lems of the Jews in Russia, pre-addressed to Soviet Pre- and I empathize. But my feel- mier Mikhail Gorbachev, ing is that these perform- stating that the sender had ances are removed from the attended the Soviet cultural political situation." performance but was troubled Lichtenstein echoed that by Soviet human rights sentiment. "These are profes- policies. sional performers, not politi- The leaflet begins by stat- cal people. I'd prefer (the pic- ing, "Detroiters have been kets) find a more appropriate waiting for years to see the place, such as the Soviet Em- Moiseyev dancers, but others bassy in Washington." The have been waiting for years dancers will bring "no politi- for another event . . .," a cal message on stage." reference to discrimination Lichtenstein, however, against the two million supported the DSJC's right to Soviet Jews and the 400,000 picket, "as long as it's or- who have applied to emi- derly." He said security grate. would be heavy for the per- The post card reads: formance — "similar to a "While attending one of presidential visit." your cultural-exchange events, I was made aware of some of the many Jewish Svetlana Braun families residing in the Soviet Union who are waiting Meets Wiesel to emigrate. In some cases Svetlana Braun, the Mos- they have been waiting more cow wife of Southfield attor- than 15 years to be reunited ney Keith Braun, met with in their homeland, Israel. Nobel Prize winner Elie "Surely a country capable Wiesel at the American Em- of such culture and art is also bassy in Moscow last week capable of allowing these during Wiesel's visit to the Jews to simply leave. Please Soviet Union. honor your Helsinki com- Svetlana spoke to Keith on mitments. Sunday during their weekly "Please give this issue your telephone conversation. The personal attention so that our couple have been working for countries can share not only two years, since their mar- culture, but also respect for riage, to win Svetlana's one another. emigration from the Soviet "Thank you." Union. Weiner admitted that the The Brauns are among 16 DSJC and members of the divided spouses on the U.S. Jewish community are di- State Department's list. vided on whether attending Braun is hopeful that his the performance after leaflet- wife may be released soon in ing is appropriate. Long-time conjunction with the Vienna DSJC activist Jerry Rogers conference next week to re- sent a letter to The Jewish view the Helsinki Accords. News (see Letters) which con- But it could take a year or cluded, If each (Soviet cul- more," Braun told The tural event in the West) Jewish News. would play to a near-empty Svetlana was invited to the house it will emphasize the embassy meeting with Wiesel fact that we are serious when because Braun called Mrs. we declare our solidarity with Wiesel in New York before our Soviet brothers and sis- they left for the Soviet ters." Union. Christian groups have been Other refuseniks who asked by the DSJC to picket attended the meeting were the Friday night and Satur- Abe Stolar and Vladimir day afternoon performances so that Jews would not have - Slepak. With the Wiesel party were former Detroiter to violate the Sabbath. Sister Carol Rittner of the Robert Arcand, director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Detroit Interfaith Round Council, Abe Bayer of the Table of the National Confer- National Jewish Community ence of Christians and Jews, Relations Advisory Council is organizing the Christian and rabbi Melchior of Nor- volunteers. DSJC volunteers way.. will pass out the leaflets be-