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VOL.64   NO. 50
DECEMBER 4,1986-KISLEV 2
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Soviets' New Written Emigration Code
Analyzed By Soviet Jewry Movement
NEW YORK (JTA) - The
recent Societ Union's codification -<oi emigration procedures was criticized as a
"smokescreen" by some
Soviet Jewry movement
leaders contacted by the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Others, however, saw some
positive development in the
new regulations.
The regulations, to take effect Jan. 1, define acceptable
conditions for ? emigration
and temporary travel, differing significantly from the
departure from the USSR
"for personal reasons." It is
the first time the Soviets officially have recorded their
rules for application to emigrate and, in turn, grounds
for rejections.
Basis Of Consideration
The decree states that visa
applications will be considered based on "reunification with members of one's
family," meetings with close
relative?, marriage, visiting
seriously ailing relatives, resolving  inheritance   issues
The one-woman show, Hannah Senesh, starring Lori
Wilner, will be performed at the Jewish Center on Sunday, Dec. 21.
Critically Acclaimed Play
To Be Performed At Center
The Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center announces that the
original New York stage production of the critically acclaimed play Hannah Senesh
will be performed at: the'
Jewish Center for two performances only, on Sunday,
Dec. 21,at  2p.m.   and,
performance "extraordinary" in its personification
of Senesh.
Hannah Senesh, the person, survives today much as
does Anne Frank, in her
diaries and in her poems.
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current procedure in two respects: having no provision
for repatriation. and a new
rule for quick application for
an emergency visa to visit
ailing relatives.
The regulations, which the
Soviets claim will "easfethe"
process, is known officially
as a Decree of the USSR
Council of Ministers. The
new codification contains an
addendum of 11 provisions to
the Statute on Entry into the
Union of Soviet Socialist Re-
publics andDeparture from
the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics, which was approved Sept. 22, 1970 with 19
provisions or "points."
It is stated that the new
section is added in "consideration of application for
entry" into the USSR and for
7:30 p.m; The staging of
Hannah Senesh represents
the first time the Center has
brought to Columbus a professional New York Off-
Broadway theatre production.
Hannah Senesh is presented by the Center's Cultural Arts and Adult Services Departments. Chairing
the event will be Leon Friedberg, chairman of the Cultural Arts Department, and
Carole Genshaft, Adult Services chairwoman. Funding
for the program comes from
the Columbus Jewish Foundation and the Joint Pnh
gram of the Ohio Humanities
Council and the Ohio Arts
Council.
This one-woman show,
starring Lori Wilner, has
been well received by critics
who have highly praised Winner's performance as Hannah Senesh, a young Jewisb
woman tragically executed
by the Nazis for her heroic
effort to free Hungarian
Jews in World War II. The
story itself haB been termed-
a "powerful jyqrk," a
"touching portrait of a brave
young woman" that is a theatrical tour de force. The
New York Times, touched by
what it termed a "poignant
and fantastically moving experience,"  called Wilner's
Federation's'Night Flight'
To Take Off December 6
"Night Flight takes off this
Saturday, Dec. 6, at 8 p.m.
at Temple Israel," said Barbara Wasserstrom, co-chair
with Jim Wasserstrom for
the Columbus Jewish Federation event. "Night Flight
will provide the opportunity
for? the Young Men's Division, Young Women's Division and the Young Jewish
Professionals to meet and
enjoy a festive and fun-filled
evening — not just your
'plane' old good' time,"
added Jim Wasserstrom.
Highlights for this special
Night Flight include an orchestra for dancing and
entertainment by comic and
singer, Danny Tadmore.
Born in Tel Aviv in 1948, Tad-
more founded the English
Musical Theatre after serving as a lieutenant in the Israeli army during the Yom
Kippur War. He has entertained audiences throughout
the United States, South
America and Europe, The
cost for the evening is $15 per
perspn, Hors d'oeuvres and
dessert bar will be featured
and dietary laws will be observed, • ...'■■ A' 7 777f
The Wasserstroms
stressed that "first class
reservations" can be made
by phoning the Columbus
Jewish Federation, 237-7686.
Danny Tadmore
Night Flight Committee
members, in addition to Barbara and Jim Wasserstrom,
are: Randall Arndt, Neal
Barkan, James Brisk,
Samuel Edelman, Sharon
Edelman, Shelly Igdaloff,
Dawn Schneir; Randy Sokol
and Nancy Wasserman.
Holly Kastan serves as
1987 Young Women's Division chairwoman. Bradley
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and other reasons." Family
members are defined as
spouse, parent, child or
sibling.
Decisions by emigration
authorities are to be made
within a month unless
"further consideration" is
necessary, when the waiting
period could extend to six
months. The decree states
that denials will be explained, but no provisions
were listed, entitling an appeal of a rejection. Reappli-
cation is allowed six months
after denial.
The state may deny emigration for a number of reasons: an applicant's familiarity with state secrets; if
the basic rights and legal
interests of other Soviet citizens are affected; unfulfilled
obligations to the state or
any organizations; legal
grounds for criminal
charges; conviction of a
crime; if false information
was given by the applicant;
if the person abroad inviting
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Israel Confirms Supplying Arms
To Iran At American Request
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Israel confirmed last week
that it supplied $12 million of
U.S. arms to Iran "in response to an American re-,
quest," but emphatically denied knowing that any of the
funds paid by Iran were
transferred to the Contras,
the Nicaraguan rebel force
supported by the Reagan Administration in their attempt
to overthrow the Sandiiiista
government of Nicaragua.
Israel's policy and the
heed to keep it secret from
Knesset members was vigorously defended by Vice
Premier and Foreign Min-.
ister Shimon Peres in a
lengthy statement to a Knesset angered and dismayed
by the government's clandestine actions.
Israel's official acknowledgement contained in a
Statement released here
shortly after midnight
Nov. 26, local time, differed,,
in several particulars from
the statements made several
hours' earlier by U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese,
at a White House press conference.
Meese said that some
$10-$30 million of the money
Iran paid for arms received
from the U.S. was deposited
by "representatives of Israel" in Swiss bank accounts
set up by the Contras. He
said the money was the
amount Iran paid over the
$12 million cost of the weapons, which were transferred from the Department
of Defense. Meese referred
several times to "representatives of Israel" in that
connection and promptly
corrected himself after referring once to "representatives of the Israel government."  ,
Peres, who was Prime
Minister when the transactions with Iran occurred, addressed the Knesset in response to seven urgent
agenda motions on the issue,
severely critical of: the
government. Several were
introduced by leftist factions, which were the. most
vociferous in their condemnation. But there was
strong criticism as well from
Labor and Likud MKs. Only
Yuval Neeman, leader of the
ultra-nationalist Tehiya
Party unconditionally sup-
Holocaust Museum
Architect Selected
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
James Ingo Freed, of I.M.
Pei and Partner, has been
selected as the design architect for the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum, it was announced here
by Arthur Rosenblatt, the
museum's director.
Freed, 56, was the principal design architect for the
newly completed Jacob
Javits Exposition and Convention Center in New York
City. Born in Essen, Germany, he and his family
came to the U.S. in 1940.
"The Holocaust in its enormity defies language and
art, yet both must be used to
tell the tale, the tale that
must be told," Elie Wiesel,
chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council,
said.- "In James Freed we
have found an architect who
can master this unique challenge."
The Memorial Council is
conducting a $100 million
fundraising campaign for
the museum which will be
located on government
property adjoining the National Mall. The museum
will house a Hall of Witness,
telling the story of the Holocaust; a memorial Hall of
Remembrance; exhibition
halls; a Holocaust library
and archives; a Learning
Center, and two theaters.
Rosenblatt said that plans
now call for the museum to
be completed in 1989.
ported   the   government's
position,
Peres Defends U.S.
Objectives
Flaying his critics as
"hypocrites ... who presume to speak in the name of
a lofty morality," Peres
strongly defended ttie Reagan Administration's objectives which, according to
Meese, were to end the Iran-
Iraq war, reduce Iranian
support of terrorism and
free American hostages held
by pro-Iranian groups in
Lebanon.1
"In life," Peres said,
"there are .often agonizing
conflicts and contradictions
between equally pressing
moral claims," and in the
Iran affair, Israel acted
"solely out of moral consideration," He cited as a
parallel Israel's decision last
year to free 1,150 terrorists
and other security detainees
in exchange for three Israel
Defense Force prisoners of
war in the hands of terrorists
in Lebanon.
He said he had nothing but
admiration for President
Reagan, who "does not rest
for one moment" in his efforts on behalf bf American
hostages. "Israel was asked
to help secretly and it was
glad to do so," Peres said.
There was no question of
"American pressure," he
said.
He dismissed the idea that
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