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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern 1 wry — Established 1925
Vol. XLVI
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, July 30, 1971
Red Court Rejects
Petition Of 40
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NEW YORK (JTA)—A peti
tion signed by 40 Soviet Jews
was presented to the Supreme
Court of the Russian Republic
backing up an appeal filed by
the nine Jews convicted at the
second Leningrad trial.
The Soviet court on July 20
rejected the appeal which had
asked only for a reduction af
the sentences. The accompany
ing petition, however, demanded
that the accused be set free be
cause they were innocent of
complicity in an alleged plot to
hijack a Soviet airliner at Len
ingrad in June, 1970. According
to the report, the petition was
presented to the high court by
a delegation of three represent
ing the signers. The petition
claimed that “confessions” and
“regrets” that were obtained
from the defendants were the
results of “long interrogation
and psychological pressure.”
Moshe Decter, coordinator of
the Commission of Inquiry on
the Rights of Soviet Jews has
released the text of a letter
from the Black civil rights
leader Bayard Rustin to United
Nations Secretary General U
Thant. The letter disclosed that
six of the nine defendants at the
second Leningrad trial were
among 37 Soviet Jews whom
the authorities prevented from
presenting a petition to Thant
when he was in Moscow on
Juno -14, 1971. Rustin wrote,
“The very fact of their inabil
ity to petition the United Na
tions, through your person,
must in itself be a matter of
great concern to the organiza
tion.” The petition had asked
Thant to intercede personally on
behalf of Jews prevented from
emigrating from the USSR in
violation of the UN Declaration
of Human Rights to which the
Soviet Union subscribes.
An interfaith delegation rep
resenting the Appeal Of Consci
ence Foundation, retur n i n g
from its fifth visit to the
Soviet Union in five years,
ported that Jewish religious lii
in the USSR has “further de
teriorated” over the past year
because of the “critical short
age” of rabbis and the lack of
teachers, books and students “to
make (a yeshiva) a reality.” The
group nevertheless saw a glim
mer of hope in the future of
religious life in Russia including
that of the Jewish community.
The delegation consisted of
Rabbi Arthur Schneier, of Park
East Synagogue here who is
president of the Foundation;
the Rev. Dr. Harold A. Bosley,
of Christ Church, Methodist;
the Rev. Thurston N. Davis, of
the United States Catholic Con-
Continued on page 5
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\°° By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
vfiief of the JTA Washington Bureau
.rfHINGTON (JTA) — As
t. j first year of the standstill,
cease-fire along the Suez Canal
nears its close, the chief official
American expert on the Middle
East revisited Israel this week in
what a State Department au
thority has probably rightly des
cribed as “just one more in the
process of diplomacy” for re
opening the waterway.
Assistant Secretary of State
Joseph J Sisco’s trip follows
hard on Egyptian specialist Mi
chael Sterner’s visit to Cairo.
From these travels, it can be
assumed that some openings are
present — however slight—for
Communal Leader’s Daughter
Missing on Caribbean Flight
SAN JUAN, P. R. — Search
was continuing here this week
for two couples reported lost on
their twin-engine plane since
last Friday.
Paul Warren was piloting the
plane in which were riding his
wife Delores, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. I. D. Shapiro of At
lanta, and Mr. and Mrs. Jerome
Levine also of Miami.
The party had been island-
hopping for two weeks and was
en route to Barbados when the
pilot radioed the craft was out
of gas and was ditching near a
ship on which the letter “K”
was visible.
By the time the ship had been
identified, it had plied through
the waters for nearly two and
a half hours. It was that long
as well before it could return
to the vicinity of the alleged
ditching. »
By this time nothing of the
tiny plane was visible. It is
thought the two couples may
have used an emergency raft
but daily and extensive search
of the area by plane and ship
have to date produced no clues.
Mrs. Warren, a native of Au
gusta, was married last year.
Mr. Warren is a lawyer and an
experienced sportsman. Her
mother, Louella Shapiro, has
been outstanding through the
years with Hadassah and the
City of Hope.
bargaining and extending Sec
retary of State Rogers’ initia
tive during May for agreement
on the canal issue. In any case,
Egypt has indicated it sanctions
the American activity. Israel,
too, seems to appreciate the
visit since it might result in a
better flow of weapons to coun
ter Soviet hardware along the
Nile as well as allow for dis
cussion of new ideas. Sisco’s
visit, however, comes at a time
when the Arab world has dis
integrated anew by plot, coun
terplot, and maneuver from the
Atlantic to the Persian Gulff.
Within a fortnight, Morocco’s
King Hassan fought off Libyan-
supported rebels; Jordan’s King
Hussein demolished the Pales
tine commandoes in a way that
caused Syria and Iraq to close
their frontiers with Jordan; in
the Sudan, Iraq-backed military
leaders first drove out their old
colleague Gen, Numeiri from
leadership, but in a surprising
turnabout he regained power.
In the aftermath of Arab killing
Arab, Egyptian President Sadat
warned Israel again that this is
the year of decision and his
editorial mouthpiece, El Ahram
charged Bulgarians in Khar
toum with aiding the rebellion
against Sadat’s ally Numeiri.
Immigrant Families from Soviet
Georgia Staged Sit-In at Lod
Former Macon Rabbi to Give
Opening Prayer in Senate
MIAMI — Rabbi Charles M. Isfe’K
Rubel, spiritual leader of Con-
gregation B’nai Raphael, has
been invited by Sen. Hubert
Humphrey to deliver the open
ing prayer at the United States
Senate session Wednesday, Aug.
4.
Rabbi Rubel was born in
New York City and graduated
from the College of the City of
New York with a BA degree,
and received his rabbinical de
gree from the Jewish Theolog
ical Seminary of America. Rabbi
Rubel served in New York at
Beth El Jewish Center of Flat-
bush and Kingsway Jewish Cen
ter of Flatbush. He was then
called too Congregation Sherah
Israel of Macon, Ga., which he
served for a period of 12 years.
Before coming to Miami, Rabbi
Rubel was spiritual leader of
Temple Beth Sholom in Provi
dence, R. I.
The rabbi has been active in
the Greater Miami Rabbinical
Association and is a iormer
member of the executive com
mittee of the Rabbinical Assem
bly. He is an active member of
the North Miami Kiwanis Club
and a member of Conqueror
Lodge, Knights of Pythias in
Brooklyn, N. Y A former mem
ber of the Order of Sons of
Zion, he has been an active
RABBI RUBEL
worker for Zionism for the past
40 years.
Mrs. Rubel, a well-known He
brew pedagogue, is presently af
filiated with Temple Israel of
Miramar.
On Aug. 29, Rabbi Rubel will
also be honored with the title
of Doctor of Divinity by the
Jewish Theological Seminary at
a special convocation to be held
at Park Avenue Synagogue in
New York.
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Four fam
ilies from the Georgian Repub
lic, part of a planeload of Soviet
Jewish emigres arriving here
from Vienna, staged a sit-in at
Lydda Airport to protest the
accommodations offered them
by the Absorption Ministry.
Several of the families demand
ed housing in Lod where they
said they had relatives and
friends. One of them however
refused a flat at Kiryat Atta
although their brother lives in
that town. Press reports that
Soviet authorities have called a
sudden halt to Jewish emigra
tion were questioned by reliable
Jewish sources in New York.
The sources, which have pro
vided accurate information on
developments in the Soviet
Union hitherto, told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that the re
port by Los Angeles Times cor
respondent Richard Reston from
Moscow was not correct. Reston
said that only 180 Jews left the
USSR during the first week of
July and that there has been
virtually no movement at all
since then. He noted that in con
trast, from March through June,
Soviet authorities were permit
ting an average of 1,000 Jews a
month to leave.
Jewish sources in New York
told the JTA that the Soviet
Jewish writer David Markish is
working as a porter since he
lost his job and was ousted
from the writers’ union for ap
plying for a visa to go to Israel.
The sources also reported that
a Jewish economist named
Korncher was fired from his
position at the Plekhanov Insti
tute after he asked for a char
acter reference to apply for an
exit visa. According to the
source he is working as a post
man. A character reference from
an employer or teacher is one
of the documents required be
fore a visa application is accept
ed for consideration by Soviet
authorities.
Sadat may indeed indulge in
some acts of war against Israel
in the new year. But some con
cession with Russo-Ameri can
backing may be arranged to
avert this risk. In the latter
connection, what Sisco may
seek from Israel and Sterner
had possibly obtained from
Egypt are commitments of “in
action” by both. Thus Israel
may agree that Egyptian forces
may cross the Suez into Sinai
but Cairo would pledge in
secret that after a parade or
two to demonstrate its triumph
and authority, the forces Would
return to their previous posi
tions except for a token pres
ence.
Similarly Egypt would agree
to Israeli shipping through the
reopened Suez but after estab
lishing the principle by a sailing
or two, Israel would cease the
movement to allow time for the
understanding to penetrate the
Arab consciousness. In this
agreement, to be outwardly
positive in word but basically
negative in deed, Israel and
Egypt also could arrive at an
understanding on the extent of
Israeli withdrawal from the
Suez and the definite continu
ation of the cease-fire pending
the results of the first two pre
liminaries.
The timing and assurances in
this game, if it is indeed on the
chessboard, will require much
exploration. The ultimate result
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critics in EJgypt that they act
like ostriches with their heads
buried in the sand because they
dislike his talking with Amer
ican officials. With an impor
tant Soviet delegation present
Continued on page 8
Executive Cited For Plans
To Build Israeli Holiday Inns
Importance of the hotel industry to Israel was emphasised by
Economic Affairs Consul for the Southeast Abraham Sharir
when he presented Israel’s “Shalom” Award to hotel magnate
Kemmons Wilson. Wilson, founder and chairman of the board
of Holiday Inns recently announced plans for the erection of
seven franchised Holiday Inns in IsraeL Israeli and American
investors win provide the funds for these first franchises in
Israel, Wilson said.
In making the award for “outstanding contributions to the
hotel industry in Israel,” Sharir said, “Hie hotel industry for
Israel is not like any other Industry, In that it provides not only
money and employment to aid the economy, but also provides ac
commodations to give people the opportunity to see and learn
of Israel.”
The first Holiday Inn in Israel Is under construction at
Klbbuts En Gedi on the Dead Sea. Construction is projected ta
begin In Jerusalem In 19TS and In Tel Aviv In 1973.