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Sharansky To Speak
At JCCenter Induction
ELIZABETH KAPLAN
Staff Writer
F
ormer refusenik Natan
Sharansky will deliver
the keynote address
during the installation of of-
ficers and new board
members at 7:45 p.m. June 21
at the Maple/Drake Jewish
Community Center.
Sharansky will be in the
United States to promote his
new book, See No Evil, which
deals with his nine years in
Soviet prisons. Sharansky's
speech at the Center will
focus on the book.
Last week, Sharansky was
elected president of the new
Zionist Federation of Soviet
Jewry. About 400 delegates,
meeting in Jerusalem, chose
Sharansky to head the
Natan Sharansky
organization, which will
serve as an umbrella
organization for various
Soviet Jewish groups.
In accepting his new posi-
tion, Sharansky said "We
fought the officials of the
KGB to make aliyah, and
then we had to struggle here
with the officials who control
absorption. It is time we stop-
ped fighting the bureaucrats
and started to take respon-
sibility for our own affairs!'
Another former refusenik,
Yosef Mendelevich, said the
new organization will allow
the Soviet Jewry movement
to "speak with one voice?'
Mendelevich stressed the
apolitical nature of the group,
and said he hoped its consti-
tuents would be able to set
aside their individual
ideological perspectives and
focus on how to make the
group broad-based and able to
serve the needs of all.
Other prominent refuseniks
who are lending their support
to the new Zionist Federation
of Soviet Jewry are Ida
Nudel, Yuli Edelstein, Alex-
ander Kolmiansky and Yosef
Begun, all of whom will serve
on its executive committee.
Ibpics the Soviet Jewry
federation will address
Sharansky said, include im-
proved housing facilities for
olim from the Soviet Union
and increased programs on
career development and job
training for the new
immigrants.
One of the immediate
issues facing the new federa-
tion may be massive anti-
Semitic demonstrations in
the Soviet Union next month.
Refuseniks, speaking with
contacts in the West, have ex-
pressed fear that such
demonstrations may occur in
conjunction with the upcom-
ing celebration marking the
millennium of the founding of
Christianity in Russia.
Eastern Orthodoxy was of-
ficially adopted by Vladimir,
ruler of Russia, in 988. The
thousandth anniversary will
be observed on June 6.
One visitor who just return-
ed from the Soviet Union
said, "In every house we
visited in Moscow, Leningrad
and Kiev, the refuseniks were
very worried that Pamyet will
use the June 6 occasion as
one to stage an anti-Semitic
demonstration, or maybe
even a pogrom?'
12,000
some
With
members, Pamyet (Memory),
is an antidemocractic, anti-
communist, Russian na-
tionalist group whose
members often blame Jews
for many of the problems in
the Soviet Union.
Meanwhile, the Soviet
Jewry Committee of the
Jewish Community Council
of Detroit is encouraging
everyone to write President
Reagan in support of the ad-
ministration's position on
human rights and Soviet
Jewish emigration.
According to Kathy Ozery,
community affairs associate
at the Jewish Community
Council, Soviet Jewry have
initiated a nationwide letter-
writing campaign to
demonstrate support for
Soviet Jews.
The campaign is being con-
ducted as President Reagan
prepares to meet in a summit
with Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev. The president has
repeatedly asserted that
human rights are on the
agenda for his talks with
Gorbachev.
Those wishing information
on what to discuss in their
letters to President Reagan
may contact Kathy Ozery at
the Jewish Community Coun-
cil, 962-1880.
JTA correspondent David Landau
contributed to this report.
THE JEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF DETROIT
Invites you to attend the
Keter Shem Toy Award Dinner
honoring
SENATOR JACK FAXON
In Recognition of his leadership, many services and con-
tributions to the community, the State of Michigan, the
Nation and the State of Israel.
MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1988
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
27375 Bell Road, Southfield
Dinner: 7 p.m.
Cocktails: 6 p.m.
Couvert $175
General Chairman:
HAROLD BERRY
Dinner Co-Chairpersons:
Leon Cohan
Richard Doerer
Sam Frank
David Handleman
Bob Jacobs
Ira Jaffe
William Kahn
Dr. Charles Kessler
William Kessler
Harold & Barbara Marko
Milton J. Miller
Josep Nederlander
Joel Nosanchuk
Spencer M. Partrich
SUE ELLEN EISENBERG
EDWARD ROSENTHAL
President
JNF Council of Greater Detroit
Executive Director
JNF Council of Greater Detroit
For further information and reservations, please call
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND
(313) 557.7016 or (313) 557.7059
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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