UP FRONT

Pollards Solicit Jewish
Support For Son's Case

urging of his parents, Pollard said.
When Jonathan finished his
Staff Writer
studies at Stanford, he entered the
ome boys dream of becoming Navy over his father's objections.
For the first several years,
secret agents. They spend
their days jumping in im- Jonathan thrived in the Navy, Pollard
aginary black cars, slipping on said. He received three superior
sunglasses and pretending they're the citations.
Yet Jonathan was disturbed when
indomitable James Bond.
he saw that the United States had
But not Jonathan Jay Pollard.
Pollard was an idealistic boy who withheld from Israel information
played the cello and loved sports, vital to its security, Pollard said.
Pollard claimed, for example, that
foreign languages and books, his
the
U.S. administration passed to
father said.
Israel
doctored data which resulted in
His fascination with learning was
the
Israel
Defense Force losing almost
encouraged by his parents, who made
one-third
of its men during the Yom
certain Jonathan brought his school
lessons along whenever the family Kippur War.
Had his son revealed information
traveled.
"But the one mistake we (as that would S have hurt the United
parents) may have made was that we States, Pollard said, "I would have
exposed our children . to things been very unhappy." But all the infor-
Jewish, good and bad," said Professor mation Joizathan passed on to Israel
Morris Pollard, speaking this - week "had to do with the defenses of Israel
before the Zionist Organization of only."
Jonathan was arrested in
America.
Among these experiences, he said, November 1985 by the FBI at the
were visits to Bergen-Belsen and Israeli Embassy, where he thought he
would be able to receive immigrant
Dachau.
Pollard said he feared that "in status, Pollard said. He subsequent-
some way, we were contributing to ly was put on trial and received a life
what happened to Jonathan after he sentence.
Pollard does not take issue with
began serving in naval intelligence.
He carried within his soul apparent- his son's guilt. What does anger him
ly this statement that it (the is the sentence his son received and
Holocaust) should never, never hap- the "avalanche of accusations" that
followed his arrest. Among these were
pen again."
Pollard and his wife, Mollie, are that Jonathan was a drug addict — a
traveling across the country to charge his father labeled ridiculous
publicize the case of their son, a because as a top Navy analyst he
former Navy analyst convicted of spy- was tested weekly for substance
ing for Israel and sentenced in March abuse — and that he was a mercenary.
Jonathan received from the Israel
1987 to life imprisonment.
Standing in front of the flags of government money for his expenses
the United States and Israel, Pollard only, Pollard said.
He offered as proof the results of
recalled his son's first visit to the
polygraph exams Jonathan took over
Jewish state.
After graduating from high a nine-month period. The examiner
school, Jonathan spent the summer concluded there was no evidence that
at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot. Jonathan was a mercenary; that he
He was so happy in Israel that he acted with no animosity toward the
returned home only after the constant -Continued on Page 10

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Marc Lindy blows the shofar.

Dial-A-Shofar For Shut Ins
Provided By Synagogue

STAFF REPORT

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hanks to Dr. Marc Lindy,
those who can't get to ser-
vices on the High Holy Days
can dial in the new year with the
sound of the shofar.
The Troy Jewish Congregation
will host the first Dial-A-Shofar at the
urging of Dr. Lindy, a Southfield
podiatrist whose hobbies include long
distance bike trips, the French horn
an _ d making shofars.
Dial-a-shofar comes to 643-6520

on Sunday for erev Rosh Hashanah
and will remain on the line for 48
hours. The recording will return on
Yom Kippur.
Dr. Lindy says he came up with
the idea one day while thinking about
shut ins and members of the disabl-
ed community.
Those who dial the number will
hear an introduction by Rabbi Arnold
Sleutelberg, who on the tape shares
a brief history of the shofar. Next
come the sounds of tekiah, shevarim
and teruah.

ROUND UP

Strike Begins,
Ends. Quickly

Almost as soon as Hillel
Day School teachers went on
strike last week they settled,
and school started on time on
Tuesday.
According to Marcia
Fishman, executive director
of the Conservative day
school, the school and
teachers were close to a settle-
ment on Aug. 31. But after
the teachers met that even-

ing, they decided to strike the
next day. By the end of the
day, however, a settlement
had been reched.
Shula Fleischer, head of the
teachers' negotiating team
said that the teachers went
on strike because "manage-
ment wants to put a wedge
between faculty and faculty,"
between new hires and long-
time staffers. She said that
management also wanted the
teachers to give back some
benefits, including some sick
days.

Fishman said that the
strike was resolved when
each side decided to give up
something, but she declined
to elaborate.

Nudel Raps
Israeli Life

Aviv — (JTA) Former
prisoner of conscience Ida
Nudel is disappointed with
the way Soviet Jews are
treated in Israel and thinks

some of them are better off in
the United States.
Nudel, who won a 16-year
battle for emigration from the
Soviet Union when she arriv-
ed in Israel last Oct. 15, ex-
pressed her disillusinment
while taping an interview for
a television show, "The Year
That Was," to be aired Sept.
13.
"Israel and Israelis are in-
different to immigration from
the Soviet Union," Nudel con-
tended. Soviet Jews "prefer to
be taxi drivers in New York

and to earn money rather
than driving a taxi in Israel
and engaging in self-
degradation," she was quoted
as saying.

A former economist-
engineer at the Soviet In-
stitute for Planning and Pro-
duction, Nudel said, "When
Soviet Jews ask me whether
to immigrate to Israel, I tell
them: If you are an academi-
cian, don't come here before
you learn some menial profes-
sion:'

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