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LONDON (JTA) - The head of the all-Soviet visa and emigration of
fice has told Prof. Aleksandr Lemer, a leader in the struggle of Soviet
Jews for exit visas, that the 35-nation document signed at the Helsinki
European Security Conference would not affect Soviet policy on appli
cations for exit permits for emigration to Israel, it was reported here
from Moscow.
TEL AVIV, (JTA) Premier Yitzhak Rabin returned Sunday from a
weekend conference of II European Social-Democratic leaders at Stock
holm who expressed unanimous opposition to any attempts to oust Is
rael from the United Nations.
Rabin expressed gratification over the stand of the conference and ex
pressed the hope that the entire free world would similarly oppose Arab-
led efforts for Israel’s suspension or ouster.
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israel faces a week of labor strife as strikes are
threatened by salaried engineers, El Al air crew members and the em
ployes of Bank Leumi Le Israel, the nation's largest financial insitut-
tion. The government, the Histadrut and other bodies are trying to avert
the walkouts which would result in no construction work being done, no
permits issued, no inspection by engineers, no fiscal transactions in the
country's largest bank, and the grounding of Israel's national airline.
TRENTON, N. J. (JTA) — Richard F. Schaub, New Jersey State
Banking Commissioner, has warned the state-chartered financial in
stitutions they must refuse ofTers of large deposits or loans if they are
conditioned upon the absence of Jews from their board of directors or
as holders of large amounts of stock.
In his letter of warning issued Friday, Schaub said, “while I have no
indication that this state's financial institutions have received such offers
or that they have consumated similar schemes, it does seem appropriate
to warn them that such agreements are contrary to the state’s Constitu
tion and the law against discrimination."
Senate Majority Leader Matthew Feldman, Democrat of Bergen
County, said he requested the letter to be sent after reading newspaper
accounts of such pressures allegedly being applied by wealthy invest
ors from Arab countries.
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Vladimir Markman, one of the first Jews in
Sverdlovsk to apply for an emigration visa, arrived Sunday in Israel af
ter serving three years in a Soviet labor camp. He will join his wife and
child in Beersheba. Markman said he was arrested on the charges of a
telephone operator who said he had made anti-Soviet comments in a
telephone conversation.
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Nazi war criminal Joseph Kotaella, 67,
will remain in his Dutch jail, a district court ruled in The Hague. His
lawyers demanded suspension of his life sentence.
HOUSTON (JTA) — B’nai B’rith board of governors voted this week
to test Soviet sincerity for the Helsinki declaration calling for the “free
flow” of peoples, ideas and information" by seeking to send an official de
legation to the Soviet Union to meet with both Jewish activists and So
viet officials.
B’nai B’rith President David M. Blumberg, who introduced the pro
posal at the organization's board or governors' biannual meeting here,
said the purpose of the delegation would be to establish regular
religious and cultural ties with Soviet Jews and consult with Soviet
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NO. 32
European Socialist Leaders Oppose
Israel’s Expulsion From The UN
PARIS, (JTA) — An un
scheduled meeting was held Aug. 3
in Stockholm between Israeli
Premier Yitzhak Rabin and
United Nations Secretary General
Kurt Waldheim after Europe’s
Social-Democratic leaders ex
pressed unanimous opposition to
any Third World attempts to sus
pend or expel Israel from the
United Nations, according to
reports here from Stockholm.
Olaf Palme, the Swedish Prime
Minister, who was host for the
gathering of 11 European leaders,
said at a joint press conference, at
the close of the meeting which
Rabin attended, that “we are all
completely unanimous'' that
suspension or expulsion attempts
in the UN against' Israel would
violate the UN charter and would
have “grave consequences” for the
future of the UN.
Participants in the conference at
the press meeting were British
Prime Minister Harold Wilson;
West German Chancellor Helmut
authorities on liberalizing emigration policies, accelerating "reunion of Schmidt, WiHy Brandt, former
families" and restoring Jewish communal life under Soviet law. “If
Helsinki is a step toward genuine detente, then there should be a paral
lel step forward for Soviet Jews,” Blumberg said. His proposal was
endorsed by a large majority of the 102-member board of governors.
Objectors to the move, a small minority, argued that even if Soviet
authorities agreed to a formal delegation, the efforts of the group
would likely be futile in view of past Soviet behavior on human rights
issues.
Chancellor; Francois Mitterand,
the French Socialist leader; Por
tuguese Socialist leader Mario
Soares; Austrian Chancellor
Bruno Kreisky; Prime Minister
Paul Hartling of Denmark;
Norwegian Prime Minister Trigve
Bratteli; The Netherlands Prime
Rabbi Marc Wilson Assumes
Pulpit At Shearith Israel Aug. 15
Rabbi Marc H. Wilson has been
engaged as the new spiritual leader
of congregation Shearith Israel in
Atlanta.
Howard Peck, president, an-,
nounced that Rabbi Wilson will
assume the pulpit leadership on
August 15.
Ordained by the Hebrew
Theological College in Chicago in
June, 1973, Rabbi Wilson had
previously graduated summa cum
laude with a bachelor’s degree in
sociology from De Paul Universi
ty-
During his college years he was
an advisor to several youth groups
in the Chicago area and in 1969
worked at the Jewish Home for the
Aged where he received a
background in geriatric social
work. He is a graduate of the
Joseph Shapiro Teacher Training
Institute of Torah U'mesorah and
is a certified Hebrew teacher.
His involvement in the suburban
community northwest of Chjcago
began in 1970 when he was asked
to become the founding principal
of the Morton Grove Community
Hebrew School. During the past
four years, the student body has
grown to more than 300 children.
Minister Joop den Uyl; and Rabin.
While both Rabin and
Waldheim refused to discuss
details of their 90-minute talk,
held under tight security at a room
at the Stockholm airport,
Waldheim said they had discussed
all aspects of the expulsion issue as
well as U.S. efforts to bring about
a second Sinai interim accord.
Before leaving for Israel after the
Waldheim meeting, Rabin said it
was vital that Israel make clear its
views on the expulsion issue.
Before leaving for Israel Aug. 3,
Rabin said that he was “very
satisfied” with the Social
Democrats’ declaration of opposi
tion to any expulsion by the UN of
Israel.
Rabin was asked at Ben Gurion
airport Friday, before he departed
for the Stockholm conference,
whether Israel could sign any
agreement with Egypt before the
issue of Israel’s UN status was
clarified. He said Israel's policy of
conducting negotiations for a se
cond interim accord “is in no way
connected with fighting the
attempt to have Israel suspended."
The Premier added, however,
that if proponents of Israel's
suspension were successful, which
he said he doubted would happen,
that would have “implications” for
“all the elements” of the UN, and
“all the processes" conducted un
der UN auspices.
Boosted By OAU Failure
Meanwhile, Israel received a
boost in its fight on the expulsion
threat Friday when the Arab bloc
in the Organization of African Uni
ty was unable, at the African sum
mit meeting in Kampala, to win
endorsement of a resolution calling
for Israel's expulsion frpm the
UN.
After 12 hours of frequently
sharp debate, the OAU summit
meeting approved a watered-down
resolution calling on the OAU
countries “to lake the most ade
quate measures to reinforce the
pressure exerted on Israel at the
United Nations and its specialized
agencies, including the possibility
of eventually depriving it of its
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Claim Soviet Jewry Demonstration
In Helsinki Achieved Goal
RABBI WILSON
This prompted the formation of a
Hebrew high school, which he
directed on a part-time basis.
Although he had not been for
mally ordained, in June, 1973, he
was invited to serve as rabbi of
Adas Shalom Congregation. As
the congregation grew from 30 to
140 families, he supervised
programming for adult education
courses, a Hebrew school
preparatory Sunday school of over
100 students, a young peoples' in
stitute for teenagers, activities for
younger children as well as men’s
club and Sisterhood activities.
He has served as “scholar-in
residence" at Oak Park Temple,
guest speaker for the dedicatory
banquet for Congregation Yehuda
Moshe in Lincolnwood, III., and
keynote speaker at an American
Jewish Committee's seminar on
the Jewish family and the rabbi.
In June, 1970, he married Meta
Goldmeier, a graduate of Stern
College for Women. They have a
daughter, Chana Yehudid, 3.
by MARK SEGAL
LONDON, (JTA) — The
demonstration last Wednesday in
Helsinki by the International
Women's Campaign for Soviet
Jewry achieved its goal of focusing
unprecedented attention on the
plight of Soviet Jewry, one of the
demonstrators said here Friday.
Mrs. Doreen Gainsford, one of
the driving forces in the campaign
for Soviet Jewry in Britain, told
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that the Russians will now have to
improve the situation of the Jews
in the Soviet Union and that the
one matter that was certain was
that Soviet Jews would learn of the
Helsinki protest and that it would
greatly encourage them in their
struggle.
Nine women, including Mrs.
Gainsford, were arrested near the
II.S. Embassy by Finnish police but
they were treated well and released
without charges, she said.
The others were Genya Intrator
of Canada, Gitta Karp of Den
mark, Mirae Grave of France,
Estelle Stern-Eilers of West Ger
many, Dr. Hazel Boland of
Ireland, Ruth Berlinger and
Charlotte Ettlingcr of Sweden and
Anne Robinson of the United
States. Mrs. Gainsford said each
was prominent in Jewish and
Soviet Jewry campaigns in their
countries.
The women greeted Soviet
Communist Party Secretary
Leonid Brezhnev with banners say
ing, “USSR Honor the Agreement
— Give Human Rights to Soviet
Jews.” Mrs. Gainsford said she
used her “loud voice” to shout in
Brezhnev’s direction, “you are
signing and at the same time
persecuting Soviet Jews." At that
point, Finnish police arrived and
arrested the women before the
world's mass media represen
tatives.
She said the group learned that
Brezhnev would be traveling in a
Cadillac-style limousine and thus
they were able to pick out that car
among the 14 which conveyed the
Soviet leader to the U.S. Embassy.
Another demonstration, near the
mooring of the Soviet ship, the
“Mikhail Kalinin,” which the
Soviets were using as a floating
hotel, also ended after Finnish
police intervened.
The delegation managed to send
a letter explaining their actions to
Finnish president Urho Kekkonen,
who was chairman of the Euro
pean Security Conference. In the
letter, the women asked Kekkonen
to urge the Soviet government to
adhere to the terms and spirit of
the agreement which the Soviets
helped prepare and to show their
“honest intentions" by allowing all
Soviet Jews who wanted to
emigrate to be allowed to da so
promptly.