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PODIUM POWER
In his speech, U.S. Vice President George
H.W. Bush asserted “the human rights
issue is now a permanent part of the
U.S-Soviet agenda.” He called on Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev to affirm
glasnost, a policy of political and social
openness, by releasing not just a token
number of refuseniks, but “thousands,
tens of thousands — all those who want
to go.”
Bush ended by famously declaring,
“Mr. Gorbachev: Let
these people go. Let
them go!”
Nobel Peace Prize
Laureate Elie Wiesel
mused that hordes of
European Jews could
have been saved from
Hitler’s fury had there
been a protest as
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dramatic as Freedom
Sunday.
“But too many of us were silent then,”
the Holocaust survivor said. “We are not

silent today.
“We are here because we must be
here: to arouse compassion, not con-
frontation; to tear down walls, not build
them.”
Rally goers had marched two miles
from the Ellipse in front of the White
House to the National Mall speak-
ers’ platform. Dr. Conrad Giles was
Federation president at the time.
“On reflection,” the Bloomfield Hills
resident told the JN, “I believe that few
of us could anticipate
that this day would
help trigger the sea
change in the policy of
the Soviet Union.”
Giles is still in awe
of the “vibrancy, com-
mitment and dedica-
tion” shown by the
Conrad Giles
Detroit delegation,
one of the larger contingents outside the
Eastern seaboard.
As a 7-year-old student at Hillel Day
School, Arianna Gordon joined her
father, Rob, in the Detroit delegation.
Today, she’s a rabbi and director of edu-
cation and lifelong learning at Temple
Israel in West Bloomfield.
Rabbi Gordon reminisced “being part
of something larger than just the Detroit
community.” She
looked back on how
her parents’ commit-
ment to Jewish life has
driven her.
And she shared
that the rally not
only “enhanced my
understanding of what
Arianna
Soviet Jews were fac-
Gordon
ing,” but also that “as I
grew older and former
Soviet Jewish students began attending
Hillel, I think I had greater empathy for
what they may have experienced.”
She added, “I have always been proud
that my father took me to this rally at
such a young age — that he believed I
was old enough to learn the lessons of
what we as Jews do for Jews around the
world, and how we peacefully make our
voices heard.”

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Smiling widely, the former Soviet pris-
oner on trumped-up treason and spying
charges proclaimed to the throngs that
remarkable Sunday, as recounted by
then-Editor Gary Rosenblatt in the JN
on Dec. 11, 1987: “How many times did
I hear it was impossible to get hundreds
of thousands of people to march in
Washington in the winter? And yet look,
it is winter and you are here.
“And how many
times,” Sharansky
continued, “did I
hear that the Soviet
gates of emigration
cannot be opened.”
Sharansky’s pres-
ence proved those
gates would swing
Natan
open,
thanks to a
Sharansky
stirring global pro-
test by Jews.
The Ukraine native urged the crowd
not to be duped that all was well because
the Kremlin had freed some longtime
refuseniks in hopes of curbing the
drumbeat for freedom.

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In celebration of the 25th anniversary of United Jewish Appeal‘s Operation
Exodus, renowned Soviet Jewry refusenik Natan Sharansky will speak at Jewish
Family Service’s annual meeting on Tuesday, May 17, at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek, Southfield.
Marvin Lender, former national chair of Operation Exodus, also will speak.
Detroiter Joel Tauber, a key national player in Operation Exodus, is event chair.
Imprisoned in 1978, Sharansky spent nine years of a 13-year sentence in Soviet
government custody before his release in 1986. He promptly left for Israel, where
he became an absorption activist and government leader.
Today, he’s chair of the executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel. He remains a
human rights ambassador.