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Rabbi Tells Rally Of Plight Of Soviet Jews
BONN (WNS) - Hamburg Senator on Internal Af-
_ fairs,,Heinz Ruhnau, addressing the German-Israeli
society here, said, "no German can stand by a second
time and watch millions of Jews be exterminated, for
this is the aim of terrorists led by Libya, Syria, and
' part of Egypt." Assailing the Arab states for their
threatening policies toward Israel and for harboring
terrorists, he said, "I cannot agree that anti-Zionism, -
in its effects, is any different from anti-Semitism."
LONDON (WNS) -Ten Kiev Jews have written tb
President Nixon congratulating him on his re-election0
but complaining they never received replies to two
previous letters appealing to him to use his influence to
help them obtain exit visas, "because power is in your
hands and it is evident that in our world only power can
enforce justice." The letter noted that some Jewish
families in Kiev recently received visas which coin?
cided with the height of your election campaign."
Expressing understanding of Nixon's "efforts directed
toward the establishment of business contacts with the
Soviet Union," the letter said this "may become an
objective factor influencing the fates of Jews of
Russia...fighting for their right to repatriate."
LONDON (WNS) - As the Christmas rush began to
build up throughout Britain Scotland Yard issued a
new letter bomb-warning advising Jewish individuals
and organizations and non-Jews and non-Jewish
organizations connected with Israel to. carefully
examine even small letters not arousing suspicion.
Scotland Yard also alerted police forces in Germany,
Holland, Belgium and Austria to be especially wary of
mail arriving from Singapore and Malaysia,as well as
from India where the last wave of letter bombs
originated. Scotland Yard has reportedly det<
by BILL COHEN
Chronicle Special Reporter
Soviet officials have not let
up on their harassment of
Jewish religion and culture,
according to New York
Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, who
spoke in Columbus at tbe
Pfeethem Now Rally Dec.
12.
Lookstein, who returned
from a trip to Russia two
- months ago, (told a crowd of
more than two hundred at
the Jewish Center that while
some Jews are being allowed
to emigrate to Israel, many
more are losing their jobs
and possessions as they wait
for permission- ta leave.  ■
Lookstein, chairman of the
Commission on Soviet Jewry
for the Rabbinical Council of
America,.showed slides and
told the story of Dr. Roman
Rutman, who finally got to
Israel after a long struggle
with authorities. Rutman
had two doctorate degrees in
math and was a very
wealthy man, until he found
his Jewish identity, applied
for a visa, and worked in the
Jewish' underground in
Moscow.
Lookstein said Rutman,
and his wife then went"
through a year of
bureaucracy, hunger
strikes, and poverty before
they got their exit visas.
After his speech, Lookstein
told The Chronicle, "There is
almost no religion of any
kind in the Soviet Union
today. In a ,city like Moscow
which has 600,000 Jews,
there is one large synagogue
and one very small one."
"In Leningrad," Lookstein
added,    "there    is    one
World Jewish Population
Is Estimated at 14,236,420
NEW YORK, (JTA) - The
world Jewish population is
estimated   at   14,236,420,
Ked-antL*~^. according to the American
Kaplan
de-fused numerous lethal letters since i(s special
branch to coordinate the international drive against
letter bombs went into action early Novemjier.	
OSU Hillel Announces 1973
Schdar-ln-Residence
The O.S.U. B'nai-^frrithV
Hillel Foundation announces
the appointment of Professor
Marshall Sklare as the Rabbi
Harry Kaplan Scholar-in- 7>
Residence for 1973. Dr.
Sklare will be at the O.S.U.
Hillel Foundation Sunday,
Jan. 28 and Tuesday, Jan. 30.
Marshall Sklare,
Professor of American
Jewish Studies at Brandeis
University, is a social
scientist who specializes in
the study of racial, ethnic
and religious gtwups, with
particular emphasis on the
sociology of the American
■ Jew.
Dr. Sklare was formerly
professor of sociology at
Yeshiva University and-has/
served as a visiting
professor at the Hebrew
University, Princeton
Theological Seminary and
Clark University. He was the
director of the Division of
Scientific Researeh of the
American Jewish Committe.
He     is     a*    reknowned
author- and ' editor,   his
most recent work being
America's >       Jew,        a
comprehensive examination
of the Jewish community in
the United States.
Dr.    Sklare    took    his
master's   degree  at   the
:y University of Chicago and
received his doctorate from
Columbia University.
Professor Sklare will give
a  community lecture  at
Hillel at 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan.
28 on "What's Right and
What's Wrong With  the
Professor Marshall Sklare
American Jewish Family?".
Tuesday, Jan. 30 Dr. Sklare
will    speak    on    "Self-
Segregation,' "Acculturation
or     Assimilation:     The
changing      nature  ■   of
American Jewish Identity."
The lecture will begin at 8
p.m. at the O.S.U. Student
- Union. A coffee hour at Hillel
will follow. Dr. Sklare will
also be available to meet
with  the   O.S.U.   Jewish
Studies'     classes,      the,
Columbus Jewish communal
workers, the O.S.U. Campus
Ministry Association and the
O.S.U.      faculty   in   the
sociology    department.
Members' of the  rabbi
Harry Kaplan Scholar-in-
Residence   Committe   are:
Dr.   Theodore   Beckman,
Mrs.  Herman Katz,   Dr.
Marvin Fox (HillelFaculty
Advisor),   Rabbi   Jeffrey
Siegel   and' Mr.    Aaron
Leventhal ^(Hillel Staff), and
student representatives Ms.
Katie Disch and Ms. Nancy
Horwitz. <
Jewish Year Book, whose
1972 edition has just been
published. There are ap-.
proximately 6.06 million
Jews in the U.S., more than
in any other country. These
estimates were compiled by
Leon Shapiro, Associate
Professor of Russian-Jewish
History at • Rutgers
University, who compiled
the overseas demographic
data, and Alvin Chenkin,
supervisor, Statistics Unit,
Council of Jewish'
Federations and Welfare
Funds, who assembled the
figures on the U.S.
After the U.S., countries
with the largest Jewish
populations are: Soviet
Union, .2.644 million, Israel;
2.632 million (it is estimated
that 42,000 immigrants
entered Israel this past
year); France, 550,000;
Argentina, 500,000; Great
Britain, 410,000; and
Canada, 300,000.
Half of world Jewry is
located in North, Central ahd
South America, 29 percent in
Europe 19 percent in Asia,
1.5 percent in Africa, and 0.5
percent  in   Australia   and
New Zealand.
In the U.S;, the Jewish
population has shown an
annual growth rate of 1.07
( percent over the past three
years. "This figure is
comparable to the annual
growth rate of the total
resident population of the
U.S. from 1968 to 1971,"
Chenkin states, and "the
proportion of the total
residenf~"ipopulation
estimated toVbe. Jewish
remained at 2.94 percent."
In Europe, according to
Shapiro, there are more than
4 million Jews, including 2.85
'million in the Communist
area. Figures for European
countries include: Austria.
9000; Belgium, 40,500;
Bulgaria, 7000;
Czechoslovakia, 14,000;'
Denmark, 6000; France,
550,000; Germany, 32,000;
Great Britain, 410,000;
Greece, 6500; Hungary,
80,000; Ireland, 5400; Italy,
35,000; Netherlands, 30,000;
Poland, 8000; Rumania,
100,000; Spain, 9000; Sweden,
15,000; Switzerland, 20,000;
Turkey, 37,000; and
Yugoslavia, 7000. Estimated
population for major centers
RABBIHASKEL
LOOKSTEIN
synagogue for 400,000 Jews.
Leningrad has a 94-year-old
rabbi who is house-ridden.
He cannot come to the
synagogue. There is no
spiritual leadership what¬
soever."
"All the synagogues are
under very strict sur¬
veillance," according to
Lookstein. "Jews do not talk
to you, freely in the
synagogue. They never give
you their last names."
"Whereas it was per-
missable up until about three
months ago for Jews to
gather outside of the
synagogue on Sabbaths and
festivals, now the Russian
authorities have the militia
in the street and they keep
people from standing" on the
sidewalk," Lookstein added.
Lookstein said that in the
past, thousands of Jews
would gather outside the
Moscow synagogue on
Simehas    Torah.     Now,
though, the KGB only allows
the 2,000 Jews who can cram
into the temple to be in the
area, according to
Lookstein. ,;,
He explained he feels the
occassional relaxing of the
head tax on educated Jews
wanting to emigrate is a
move by the Soviets to get a
good trade agreement with-
the U.S.
Asked about President
Nixon's stand on the
situation, Lookstein said, J
"My own uninformed view is
that the President feels
rather strongly about the
plight of Soviet Jews, and
that he has tried through
quiet diplomacy, rather than
through public statements,
to make clear to the Soviet
authorities his feelings."
But he added, "I must
saythat I would prefer that
he be a little bit more public
and more vocal about it, but
I think he has tried to do -
something."
Governor    Gilligan
proclaimed      Dec.      12
"Women's-Plea for Human
Rights for Soviet Jewry.   /
Day."   The. statement's   p1
purpose, according to the/-'
Governor, was to "arouse
public support for opposition
to the policy of any govern¬
ment to subvert or violate
the freedom of religion of
persons in any nation around
the the world."
Rallies in support of Soviet
Jews reportedly took place
in 50 cities across the
country.
C
Says Terrorism Resolution
Cripples UN Effectiveness
i'.a#
Heritage House Planning llth
Annual Meeting January 7th
The llth Annual Meeting
of Heritage House will be
held on. Sunday, Jan. 7, at
1:30 in the afternoon at
Heritage House. Allen
Gundersheimer, Jr.,
Chairman and Mrs. Leon
Schottenstein, Co-Chairman
of the Planning Committee
for the Annual Meeting have >
announced that the theme of
the meeting will be, "A
Sneak Preview of the
Heritage House Expansion
Program. V
Dr.     Herbert     Shore,
Executive Vice President of
the National Association of,
Jewish Homes for the Aged'
and consultant to the
'Heritage House Expansion
Program" will be the guest
speaker.
Accomplished harpist,
Mrs. Allen Gundersheimer,
Jr., will offer a program of
musipal entertainment.
The entire community is
invited to atffend the llth
Annual Meeting of Heritage
House and to share in the
afternoon's program of
activities.    *
\ IN   •
UNITED NATIONS
(WNS) -- Israeli Am¬
bassador Yosef Tekoah has
excoriated a resolution
passed this week by the
General Assembly's Sixth
(Legal) Committee
withholding United Nations
action against international
terrorism pending a 40-State
study of root causes saying it
"has crippled the
organization and rendered it
unable to act equitably and
effectively." Tekoah said the
Afro-Asian-Arab-Soviet
backed resolution was "a
further indication that the
United Nations has reached
a point of virtual incapacity'
to deal seriously, and con¬
structively with the principal
problems which today
..confront the international
community," and that
governments interested in
combatting international
terrorism "must con¬
sequently act on their oywi or
in regional cooperation."
The 15-nation resolution
was seen as a victory for the
Arab-Soviet bloc and non-.
aligned nations which had
sought to thwart any con¬
certed effort curb in¬
ternational terrorism. U.S.
delegate Ambassador W.
Tapley Bennett Jr. warned
that the UN was evaciing its
responsibilities and "an
immediate world problem."
Israeli officials in Jerusalem
said the resolution, following
on the heels of another Arab-
inspired resolution adopted
by the Assembly last week,
has "put a sad end" to
prospects that the UN would
contribute anything to the
> advancement of peace in the
Middle East.
Meanwhile, in New York
Rep. Herman Badillo
(D.NY) urged the U.S. to
take "unilateral action to
protect our own citizens" in
view of the UN's failure to
approve strong international
legal action on terrorism.
Capt. John Ferguson, Air
Line Pilots Association
representative, said -con¬
tinued acts* of air terrorism
could be traced to "the greed
and immaturity of pilots,
airline managements and
govermpents." The Zionist
Organization of America
urged the U.S. to convene a
conference of concerned
nations - outside the.
framework of the UN'- to
enact multilateral anti-'
terrorism treaties. \  7
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