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JTA News Briefs 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 ■ t - t- •SSMtSum * HI A Weekly Newspaper for Sotttfcera Jewry. Established -j ' VOL. LI One Section, 12 Pages Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, August 8, 1975 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 —TURN TO PAGE 10 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.