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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1987
Washington (JTA) — While
Soviet leader Mikhail Gor-
bachev was meeting with
President Reagan on Dec. 8,
15 Jewish demonstrators
were arrested for protesting
within 500 feet of the Soviet
Embassy.
The protestors, led by Rab-
bi Avraham Weiss and Glenn
Richter of the Student Strug-
gle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ),
had crossed police barricades
set up two blocks away from
the embassy.
Wearing talleisim, they sat
near the embassy for five
minutes, singing Hatikva,
Am Yisrael Chai and other
Hebrew songs before police
excorted them to a police bus.
One of the protestors blew the
shofar.
On Dec. 7, just hours before
Gorbachev arrived in
Washington, the SSSJ and
the North American Jewish
Students' Network
demonstrated outside the of-
fice of the Soviet Union's
Aeroflot Airlines to protest
the $2 billion in loans from
American banks to the Soviet
Union each year.
Representatives of the
groups placed dozens of fake
checks of $2 billion each
payable to Gorbachev inside
the security fence guarding
the office.
Both
demonstrations
featured former Soviet Jewish
refuseniks including Yosef
Mendelevich, Leon and Anna
Charny and Irina Dashevsy.
Meanwhile, about 10,000
school children and Soviet
Jewry activists packed the
Yad Eliahu sports stadium in
Tel Aviv, Dec. 7 in a rally for
the right of Jews to leave the
Soviet Union.
They were addressed by the
country's top leaders — Presi-
dent Chaim Herzog, Premier
Yitzhak Shamir and Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres — who
aimed their remarks•at Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Hussein Rejects
Meeting Israeli
Tel Aviv (JTA) — King Hus-
sein of Jordan told a Beirut
newspaper that he rejected an
offer to meet with an Israeli
leader during the Reagan-
Gorbachev summit meeting
in Washington last week,
Davar, reported Monday.
Davar
quoted the
newspaper A-Safir; which said
Hussein explained that he
turned down the idea because
it would lead only to interim
settlements, rather than a
comprehensive settlement of
the Arab-Israeli conflict by
means of an international
conference.
I OBITUARIES 1•''"
Jascha Heifetz,
Violin Virtuoso
Los Angeles — A soloist and
teacher, violin virtuoso
Jascha Heifetz left an imprint
on the classical music perfor-
ming genre that will be miss-
ed by audiences and fellow
musicians alike. Mr. Heifetz
died Dec. 11 at age 86 after a
life of solo performances,
teaching and fund raising for
Israel.
Born in Vilna, Russia, Mr.
Heifetz began the study of
violin at age 3 and first per-
formed in public at age 7. By
9, he was accepted for study
with Leopold Auer at the St.
Petersburg Conservatory. He
left for the U.S. shortly after
the outbreak of the Bolshevik
Revolution and became a U.S.
citizen. He volunteered to
serve in World War II and
under the auspices of the
USO, Heifetz performed
throughout the world.
Heifetz made his American
debut in Carnegie Hall at age
16. Later he played at benefit
concerts in Tel Aviv and
Jerusalem with his longtime
friend, cellist Gregor
Piatigorsky, to raise funds for
Israel. Heifetz, Piatigorsky
and Artur Rubinstdin became
known as the Million Dollar
Trio.
Breaking into the world of
popular music, Mr. Heifetz
took the pen name Jim Hoyl
and wrote a 1946 tune, When
You Make Love to Me, Don't
Make Believe.
After he retired, he taught
violin through the extension
division of the University of
California at Los Angeles and
at the School of Music at the
University of Southern
California.
Mae Berman
Mae D. Berman, past presi-
dent of the Business and Pro-
fessional Chapter of B'nai
B'rith Women, died Dec. 14 at
age 81.
Born in Chicago, Ill., Miss
Berman lived 54 years in
Detroit. She was the former
owner of Circle Cleaners in
Detroit (1934 until her retire-
ment in 1966). She also was
a member of Temple Beth El.
She leaves nieces and
nephews, Michael and
Charlotte Berman, Merrill
and Sandra Berman of Plano,
Tex., and Audrey and Ben
Shmetterer of Chicago. Inter-
ment Chicago.