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Friday, April 10, 1987
NEWS
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
New York (JTA) — Morris
Abram, chairman of the Con-
ference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organiza-
tions and the National Con-
. ference on Soviet Jewry, and
Edgar Bronfman, president
of the World Jewish Con-
gress, issued a joint state-
ment last week in response to
criticism of their visit to the
Soviet Union last month.
The statement said:
"All of the Jewish organiza-
tions in the United States
dealing with the issue of
Soviet Jewry are members of
either the National Confer-
ence on Soviet Jewry or the
Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations. It was the
elected leader of the NCSJ
and the Presidents Con-
ference who, with the Presi-
dent of the World Jewish
Congress, representing 70
Jewish communities around
the world, undertook a visit
to the USSR, ensuring a
delegation representing the
most wideranging cross sec-
tion of U.S. and world Jewry.
"On April 1, a debriefing
was attended by nearly 150
Jewish leaders representing
more than 60 member agen-
cies of the NCSJ and the
Presidents Conference, to-
gether with leadership of the
World Jewish Congress. We
are therefore surprised that
some of the critics of this pro-
cedure did not voice all of
their objections in the pres-
ence of their peers at the
debriefing, but chose to
discuss issues of internal con-
cern with the media.
Sources said that Abram's
and Bronfman's original
disclosure, that the Soviet
Union agreed to ease the
emigration of Soviet Jews
and to allow a more liberal
policy toward Jews within the
Soviet Union — a claim which
the Soviets immediately
denied — brought to the sur-
face a long-simmering behind-
the-scenes dispute between
various Soviet Jewry groups.
The essence of the dispute
is over who has the mandate
to speak for the Jewish com-
munity on the issue of Soviet
Jews in meetings with Krem-
lin officials. Should agree-
ments or "deals," as some
view it, be made by American
Soviet Jewry activists in
talks in Moscow? How much
of the purported agreements
and promises by the Russians
can be taken seriously? These
questions came to the fore
after Abram and Bronfman
returned from their trip to
Moscow and reported that
they had gained concessions
from Soviet officials, whom
Abram and Bronfman re-
fused to name.
A day before their
disclosure, Rabbi Arthur
Schneier, president of the Ap-
peal of Conscience Founda-
tion, reported in The New
York Times that the Soviets
had agreed to establish a new
transit procedure for future
Jewish emigres that would
eliminate the phenomenon of
"neshira" ("dropping out") of
Jews who come to the U.S. in-
stead of Israel.
Schneier emphasized that
he had negotiated the new
procedure in Moscow and
Bucharest in February, and
that flights would proceed
directly to Israel via an un-
disclosed city in Rumania.
Schneier gave no number of
Jews who would be permitted
to leave.
Essentially, there was
nothing new about these
disclosures. Feelers toward
this end could be discerned in
an interview that Abram gave
last December upon his
return from Rumania, where
he said he had "urged" Ruma-
nian President Nicolae
Ceausescu in a private
meeting in Bucharest to con-
vey to the Soviets the "lesson
of the Rumanian experience"
regarding its relationship
with its Jewish community
and Jewish emigration, and
the effect that has had on its
relations with the U.S., enabl-
ing the granting of Most-
Favored-Nation trade status,
which the USSR does not en-
joy because of the imposition
of the Jackson-Vanik Amend-
ment.
Indeed, one of the impor-
tant claims that Abram and
Bronfman made was the
recommendation of annual
waivers of Jackson-Vanik in
exchange for stepped-up
Jewish emigration, an issue
hotly contested by other
Soviet Jewry groups.
Schneier made an even
more important revelation
when he said that, based on
meetings he held in Moscow
in February with high Soviet
officials, there would be a
significant improvement in
Jewish emigration and
religious freedom.
A Soviet Foreign Ministry
spokesman was quoted as
saying there were no arrange-
ment for a larger number of
exit permit to be granted and
that no invitation has been
sent to Israeli Foreign Min-
ister Shimon Peres to visit .
.
J