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ECEMBER 14, 1972 - TEVES 9
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Soviet Anti-Semitism Is Official
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NEW YORK (WNS) - Clive Barnes, New York
Times dance and drama critic, telephoned to Dr.
Leonid Tarassuk of Leningrad, fired as curator of The
Hermitage muesum after applying for a visa to Israel,
at the first of a series of press conferences sponsored
by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry and Artists
and Writers for Peace in the Middle East (AWPME) at
which celebrities will spotlight the plight of Soviet
Jews. Appealsf sait to Soviet President Nikolai V.
Podgorny and/Culture Minister Ekatecina Ftirtseva
above the signatures of the press conference's par¬
ticipants and tenor Richard Tucker, cited "arbitrary"
rebuffs to Soviet Jews seeking emigration. The writers
asked that on the USSR's 50th anniversary Dec. 30,
amnesty Bb granted to "Soviet Jewish Prisoners of
Conscience whose goal is repatriation to Israel."
NEW YORK (WNS) - The Joint Distribution
Committee's 58th annual meeting here has adopted a
$27,678,000 budget for; 1973 - the highest in ten years,
because it has had to increase its budget expenditures y
for programs related to the immigration of Soviet Jews
to Israel. JDC chairman, Edward Ginsberg, called for .
full support of the United Jewish Appeal's 1973 cam¬
paign which provides the bulk of the funds for JDC's
worldwide programs.
MILWAUKEE, WISC. (WNS) - A neo-Nazi group,
the National Socialist White People's Party, has
recently surfaced here and racist fliers adorned with
swastikas and filled with incendiary terms such as
kike, nigger, and Black pigs, have been placed in
mailboxes, stuck under windshield wipers and slipped
under doors, Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle staff writer,
David M. Iushewitz, has reported. A typical leaflet,
reproduced in the Chronicle, said, in part "The sick,
depraved Jews who monopolize the motionr picture
industry can hardly wait to turn. America into a
mongrel cesspool...If you are tired bf seeing a bunch of
rich jews fatten their bankrolls on the. proceeds of
legalized pornography...then contact us." The address
of the party's National headquarters is given as
Arlington, Va. The party is the successor of the
• ■' American Nazi Party led by Lincoln1 Rockwell before
he was assassinated Aug.,. 1967. . '
' by JOSEPH POLAKOFF
JTA WASHINGTON
BUREAU CHIEF     '
■WASHINGTON* (JTA).' -
Yevgeriy Yevtushenko,
Soviet ipoet-playright,
told "a terrible lie" when he
asserted there is no official
anti-Semitism in the "Soviet
Union, says Dr.
Yuri Glazov, philologist and
Orientologist who recently
migrated to New York from
Moscow via Rome. "Yev¬
tushenko knows he is not.
speaking the truth," Glazov,
said in an interview with the
JTA in Washington:' "He
contradicts what he himself
said in Babi Yar ten years
ago:" Yevtushekni» deplored r
anti-Semitism- in 7 a
celebrated poem -after
visiting the site of the
massScre of Jews and others
outside of Kiev by the Nazis
in World War II. Recently,
Israel Campaigns To Halt
Pro-Arab Draft Approval
JERUSALEM    (WNS)-
Israel is fighting a last ditch
diplomatic battle in world
capitals to block passage of a
pro-Arab draft resolution
sponsored by 18 Afro-Asian
countries   calling   for   im¬
mediate Israeli withdrawal '
from the occupied territories,y
and denial of outside aid to,
"sustain its occupation."
Israel  sees  parts  of  the
resolution as an invitation to
apply   sanctions,   although/
the draft, unlike an earlier
more  extreme   Egyptian
resolution,      does      not
specifically call  for  sane- '■>
tions should Israel refuse to
, comply. Israel also regards
it  as*, a   distortion  of the 7
meaning   and   intent   of :,'•
Resolution 242,  which she
believes can be considered
Lawyer Says That Factors Which Led To
Nazism In Germany Are Present In U.S.
AMHERST, MASS.
(WNS)- Arno Herzberg, 65,
. a Jewish lawyer who fled
Germany before World War
II, says factors such as in¬
flation, powerful industries
and labor unions that led to
the rise of Nazism in Ger¬
many are 7 present in
America today. .Addressing
student^ at Hampshire
College who have organized
a course on the Holocaust,
Herzberg said inflation was
a destructive element that
wiped out the German
middle class in the decade
before trie war and may wipe
out America's middle class.
As in Germany, he said,
"large1 .corporations' and
unions, are becoming so
powerful' that it may be
impossible for a democracy
to govern them." .
Another former Jew, Rudy
Blatt, a fashion designer,
told the students that Ger-
- man Jews'complacency and
timidity while Hitler  was
;sigaining power was anbthW' >
tor   leading   tof ;th$
pious old men with whom it
was out of taste to talk about
anything in the real world."
Kurt Enoch, 77, a publishing
onsultant, disagreed saying,
"there were many like,
myself who did not believe"
the Nazi threats. "We were
hoping the regime would not
last."
Charity Newsies In Midst
Of Fund Raising Campaign
Eleven members of the
Jewish Community of
Columbus are members of
The Charity Newsies, now in
the midst of their 66th annual
fund raising campaign and
which will be culminated
With the annual Paper Sale
'; on Saturday, Dec. 16,
;' vBerhjer.-.^iiily; one of the
•:,'. newer: members, is co-
chairman of the Factory and
Business solicitation com¬
mittee, which started work
.several weeks ago. He will
be selling papers on Dec. 16
at Gold Circle, on Hamilton
Bd.
Dr. B.B. Caplan, wheyyas
honored by being name$-aj) (
member
__      Honorary member about,,
fhoioraust"HeMid G<M&$ :fW5 fe is one $&?
Jews held * positions )df^«''*osiestofa,mews,esHenot
Iff
fluence in publishing,
business,, science and the
arts but were afraid to
exercise power against the
Nazis  and   "Rabbis   were
only conducts a pre-sale
campaign on his own, but
will be. stationed at Drexel
and Main in his HIPPIE
outfit on paper sale day. He
is always high on the list of
members that,collect large
amounts each year.
Abfe Wolman, Al Solove
and Herman Sieigel are
Veteran Life members and
sail carry their share of the
load., "■'"'-:'   .  77yy    ...
Charles Margulis, the first
member of the Jewish
Community who served as
president of the Newsies,
Marvin Glassman, Herb
Fenburr, Meyer Huffman
are still on the "active list
' Lou Berliner, an honorary
member, who works with Dr.
Caplan on his drive, helps
with the special edition of the
paper and also works ortfthe
publicity committee, headed
by Bert Charles', !i'rJle;
president in 1968.
Any of the above men¬
tioned men will gladly ac¬
cept your check in.case you
were missed or didn't get a
chance to see the men on
their respective corners.
dead if the draft musters the
-required two thirds vote in
the. General Assembly.
The call for Israel to
vacate the Arab territories
immediately and un¬
conditionally, without a
peace settlement and
without negotiations is seen
here as an attempt by Egypt
and its supporters to have
the General Assembly foist a
pro-Egyptian interpretation
on Resolution 242. Earlier in
the week, U.S. Ambassador
to the United Nations George
Bush urged the General
Assembly to reject any draft
resolution altering the
"careful     balance"     of
" Security Council Re. 242 of
November 22", 1967, the"
frame work for a Middle
East settlement, saying, "It
* cannot'' seek to impose
courses of action on the
countries directly con¬
cerned, either by making
new demands or by favoring
the proposals or positions of
. one side or the other."
Also daring this week's
Middle East debate,. China
and the Soviet Union clashed
when the Chinese Am-'
bassador accused the United
States and the Soviet Union
of conspiring.to allow7"tiny
Israel to "play the bully and
run amok." He charged the
Soviet Union of using" the
Arabs and the refugees as
political pawns to attain
.control of the 7
Mediterranean. The Soviet
Ambassador countered by
alleging that China was
< selling out the Arabs a^d,
helping the Israelis, ^^f..
In Baltimore, Arthur;'J.
Goldberg, former U.S.
Ambassador to the UN, said
the pro-Arab resolution is
"unconstitutional under the
United Nations charter and
is "at variance" with Res:
242: Addressing a dinner of
the Baltimore District of the
Zionist Organization of
America, where he received
the District's Justice Louis
D. Brandem Award, said as a
prerequisite of peace the
United States must continue
"to make it explicitly clear
to the Soviet Union that in
our own national interest we
will not permit another
Chechoslovakian tragedy to
engulf Israel."   -
howevepf in a widely
publicized interview in
Playboy magazine.^he said
anti-Semitism doesn't of¬
ficially exist in the Soviet
Union. Glazov was in¬
terviewed immediately after
he had participated last
Sunday in a panel discussion
on - the "Derhocratic
Movement in the USSR" at
.George Washington
University before an
audience of about 1000,,.
mostly academicians' in the
Washington area. With him
on the panel were Alexander
Esenin -Volpin,
mathematician and
sociologist, and Natalia -
Belinkova, editor of Novyj
Kolokol 1972, a literary -
political journal. They also
are recent arrivals from the
Soviet- Union.' Glazov is
Jewish, Esenin-Volpin's
mother is Jewish, and Mrs.
Belinkova's husband was
Jewish, according " to
Professor Helen Yacobson,
of the GWU faculty, a
member of the Greater
Washington Chapter of the
American Association of
-Teachers of Slavic and East-
European Languages, which
sponsored. the gathering.
Although,., the discussion
lasted more than two hours,
no reference was made by
the panelists to Soviet Jewry
except for a fleeting mention
by Glazov that it was among
several, dissident
movements in the USSR. Nor
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AT THE SUEZ CANAL. Members of the Columbus
OPERATION ISRAEL Mission visit one of Israel's
1 military strongholds on the Bar-Lev Line. In the
background is a viw of the Canal and Egypt and in the
foreground is the protective installation of barbed wire
and sandbags. Those on the mission are left to right:
Benjamin Zox, Louis Robins, Sam Altman, Michael
'. Bloch, Dr. Steve Tuckerman, Martin Gold, Professor
George Tobey, and Skip Yassenoff. In the second row
are: Millard Cummins-tour leader, Gilbert Siegel, Hal
Leiner, Victor N. Goodman; Randy Topolosky, Dr.
Kenneth Uretsky, Gerald Swedlow, an Israeli Military
Attache,1 and and And Robert Bender. Absent are Ir¬
ving Baker and Dr. Herbert Urell.
Study Mission To Israel
Led By Millard Cummins
Several members of the
'Jewish Community were ■
privileged to participate in
an exciting special study
mission to Israel which left
New York Nov. 26 and
returned Dec. 3. The mission
was co-sponsored by the
United Jewish Fund and
Council and the United
Jewish Appeal. Operation
Israel Mission coordinator'
was Mr. Millard Cummins.
Participating with Mr.
Cummins on the Mission
were,: Sam Altman, Irving
Baker, Michael Bloch,.
Robert Bender, Victor
Goodman, Martin Gold, Hal
Leiner, Louis Robins,
Gilbert Siegel, Gerald
Swedlow, Professor'George;
Tobey, Dr. Stevfc Tucker-,,
man, Randy Topolosky, Dr.'
Kenneth > Uretsky, ; Dr.
Herbert Urell, Skip.
Yassenoff,  Benjamin  Zoic.
This was a unique op¬
portunity to enable con¬
cerned members of the
Columbus community to
obtain an in-depth picture of
the social and economic and
military conditions in Israel
at this time, particularly in
light of the military
stalemate and the ac- '
celerated immigration from
Russia.
' Those on the Mission were   *
told by Jewish Agency of-  '
fitials that 90,000 new im¬
migrants were anticipated to
arrive in Israel
in 1973, half of them from the
Soviet Union. The officials
appealed to the assembled
American leaders to return -*?
to their communities with a
renewed  determination   to
help meet the 1973 budget of
$785 million for immigration,
housing, welfare, education,
job  retraining   and i other unoi*<j
services for the 'riejir''.im-ilimn'-'
migrants as well as fpr the tn >» .
continuing needs of/earlier'.>>,    u
immigrants.
The group had a moving
and heart-warming ex¬
perience when.they visited
an Absorption Center and
met first hand many of these
new immigrants from
Russia. There they met a
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