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table.

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The perfect place to learn Jewish history, the
Bible and the Hebrew language. The right
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Beth El will make you feel right about being a family, a Jewish
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UJA Film Documents
Soviet Anti-Semitism

New York (JTA) — Jews
are not just emigrating from
the Soviet Union to Israel,
they are fleeing from a new
brand of Soviet anti-
Semitism, according to a
film released recently by the
United Jewish Appeal and
scheduled to be screened in
Baltimore, Detroit and
Atlanta, among eight other
cities, this week or next.
A new variety of anti-
Semitism is on the rise in
the Soviet Union. It is grass-
roots instead of state-
sanctioned, violent instead
of verbal, and Jews are fear-
ful for their lives.
Post-glasnost anti-
Semitism is documented in
"Anti- Semitism: the Dark
Side of Glasnost," a 10-
minute video filmed in the
Soviet Union over the last
two months, featuring
eyewitness accounts of re-
cent violence against Soviet
Jews.
In the film, Mikhail
Rosenthal, a Soviet Jewish
lawyer, tells the story of how
his daughter was burned to
death and his flat destroyed
in a suspicious fire. He later
discovered tacked to the wall
a note: "Let Jews Die."
Nikita, a Jewish student
in Riga, says that he had
many friends when he was
thought of as a Russian, but
as soon as his Jewishness
was discovered, he was
beaten.
A woman interviewed in
Georgia is afraid of immi-
nent pogroms.
"The Jews in Russia are in
great menace," said Vassily
Paukov, a recent immigrant
to Israel, at the film's open-
ing. "The new anti-Semitism
in the Soviet Union is a
loaded gun ready to go off at
any moment and directed at
the chests of Soviet Jews."
Mr. Paukov, his wife,
Anna, and another recent
immigrant, Ella Tzveyer,
are accompanying the video
on its 11-city screening to
verify the contents of the
film and to tell their own
personal accounts of the
growing anti-Jewish at-
titudes in the Soviet Union.
"Everyday life for Jews in
Russia is full of fear. Jews
are in a permanent state of
nervous tension and fear,
and there are grounds for
it," said Anna Paukov. The
violence, she says, is no
longer just verbal, although
one is bound to receive abuse
"if you happen to look Jew-
ish."
Ms. Tzveyer agreed. "I was

faced with this animal
(called) anti-Semitism all my
life," she said.
A former art historian and
museum tour guide in Len-
ingrad, Ms. Tzveyer became
active in the Jewish
underground after her son
was stabbed in an anti-
Semitic incident.
When Ms. Tzveyer
emigrated to Israel in 1989,
she left behind a Jewish
friend who had survived the
Holocaust and was a
patriotic Soviet. The friend
said that she would never
leave her Soviet homeland.
In response to recent anti-
Semitic activity, however,
she has changed her mind.
"I smell Auschwitz in the
center of Leningrad," she re-
cently told Ms. Tzveyer.
Anti-Semitism, previously
within the domain of the
state, has been unleashed
with the Gorbachev reforms,
particularly glasnost. The
new popular anti-Semitism
is being fueled by
ultraconservative groups,
feeding on the country's
economic troubles and
uncertain future.

Israelis
Smuggling
For Intifada

Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israeli
smugglers are working in
collusion with intifada ac-
tivists to illegally bring
agricultural products from
the administered territories
into Israel.
The contraband produce is
sold illegally as Israeli pro-
duce, according to a report in
Ma'ariv.
The two parties have diff-
erent motives for the impor-
tation. For the Israelis, the
incentive is profit. For the
Palestinians, it is the
dislocation of Israeli
agriculture.
According to Ma'ariv,
Israeli farmers and mer-
chants involved in the
racket provide the smug-
glers with forged bills of
lading.
Chai Binyamini, director
general of the Agriculture
Supervision Authority,
which exposed some of the
smuggling rings, revealed
that "Jewish smugglers who
enter the Gaza Strip at night
are provided with an escort
of intifada guards, to
facilitate their purchase of
merchandise from Arab
farmers and smuggle it into
Israel,"Ma'ariv said.

