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<L> The Southern Israelite x :. . . ' > *v*. •X' The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Jewry VOL. LIV Our 54th Year Atlanta. Georgia, Friday, July 14, 197* Atlantans protest Soviet trial r r< o O ~r~i U CD Jd r O 01 - Ti > -H F. <Z +-> u5 ^ r <U o by Vida Goldgar tod wire genre* report* In Atlanta, almost 400 persons gathered in front of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federation building on Peachtree Street Monday evening to express concern for the fate of Anatoly Shcharansky and 1 Alexander Ginsberg. Grouped on the lawn were young, old, and middle-aged— black and white—Jew and non- la response to an urgent call from the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, several Atlantans will join Jewish leaders fro* around the country in Washington Wednesday, July 19, to meet with State Department officials and Congressional delegations for discussion of the worsening situation of Soviet Jews. Jew. They eagerly crowded around a table to sign petitions protesting the trials. Many of the community’s rabbis and organizational leaders were there to relay the message to those unable to attend.' There had "been little time to spread word of the rally after the trials were suddenly announced last week. Rabbi Juda Mint/ opened the official program by blowing on the Shofar “the clarion call of the Jewish people over the ages.” Youngsters from the Yeshiva High School, the Hebrew Academy and elsewhere joined voices to sing Kachol VLavan, a tribute to the blue and the white of the Israeli flag, written by a Soviet Jew. They werew joined by the audience in a spirited Am Yisrael Chai. “The People Israel Live." Nancy Sigal led the singing. Willis Johnson, president of the Christian Council of Metropolitan Atlanta, pointed out the universality of the protest against “yet another serious attack on fundamental human rights.... “Atlanta’s Christian commun ity,” Johnson added, “joins hands with our Jewish friends in lamenting any and all political systems which stifle and suppress personal and religious freedom.” He expressed concern that events taking place in Russia “may be misinterpreted by many as a ’Jewish* problem,” adding that “Christians by the thousands and those of other religious faiths suffer the same domination and suppression under Godless Russian communism.” Turning to one of the posters which said “Soviet Jews Must Be Free," Johnson said, “I am sorry I don’t have a placard saying ‘Soviet Chrkwians Must bef Others vriio program included Wilson of Congregation Shearith Israel, Gerald Cohen, Federation’s vice president of community relations, Cantor Isaac Good- friend, and Ben Rabinowitz, chairman of the Federation's Soviet Jewry Committee. Rabinowitz gave an impassioned plea to the audience to “Make your voices heard. Do it! Do it!” And the shofar was sounded once more. V4«t.p At a meeting of the Synagogue Council of Atlanta this week, emphasis was placed on strengthening congregational commitment to Soviet Jewry. Special prayers will be offered at area synagogues and temples this weekend for Jews in the USSR. Elsewhere, public opinion was being mobilized in the United States, Israel and Western Europe on behalf of Shcharansky, who went on trial Monday. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance strongly condemned the trial of Shcharansky and other Soviet dissidents and Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan instructed all Israeli ambassadors to alert the countries to which they are assigned to the importance of the Moscow trial as a violation of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and the Helsinki Accords. Shcharansky’s wife, Avital, arrived in Paris Sunday See Protest, page 21. Anti-Semitic JEWISH TAXES ILLEGAL Senator Henry Beilmon of Oklahoma said on 2 October 1969 If the TAXPAYERS 0 ever discover that the Internet Revenue Service operates on NINETY PER CENT BLUFF the whole system would collapse ^ learn how you can save up to ONE HUNDRED PER CENT of your Personal In Learn how you can defend yourself against IRS Agents who are schooled in d Learn what Washington. Jefferson, and F n has to say about T a> Come on Americans WAKE UP' end get the original SPIRIT OF 76 and d have done and REVOLT against your Tax dollars being used against communistic programs and GIVE AWAY welfare and »*d programs that d for the US TAXPAYER r her PATRtOTlC DUTY to writ! THE NATIONAL SPIRIT OF 76 TAX STUDY FOUNDATION P O BOX 70342 ST PETERSBURG. FLORIDA 33702 flyers by Lisa Redaction In the past several weeks, you may have gotten into your car after shopping and found a disturbing piece of anti-Semitic literature on your windshield. “Jewish Taxes Illegal" is bannered across flyers recently distributed in various shopping centers around Atlanta. The flyer purports to tell how “you can save up to one hundred percent of your Personal Income Tax." The insidious literature says, in part: “the l.R.S. operates on Un constitutional grounds since it comes under the Jewish originated Federal Reserve Act, which is itself Un-Constitutional. Learn that the Jewish controlled Federal Reserve System of which the l.R.S. comes under, is privately owned by International Jewish Bankers who don’t have the interest of the United States at heart.” The flyer also cautions that Americans need to “wake up and revolt” against the tax dollars “being used against you to promote Socialistic-communistic hit Atlanta programs and GIVE AWAY welfare and aid programs that do more for our enemies than the U.S. TAXPAYER.” The piece is signed by an organization called “The National Spirit of 76 Tax Study Foundation," shown as located at a post office box in St. Petersburg, Fla. The flyer invites inquiries “for more information.” The flyer also quotes Senator Henry Beilmon of Oklahoma as saying “if the TAXPAYERS of this country ever discover that the Internal Revenue Service operates on NINETY PERCENT BLUFF the whole system would collapse." Marvin B. Schpeiser, of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federation, wrote to Senator Beilmon requesting that he “disassociate himself from the contents of the flyer” and “take some official action in trying to determine who the individuals are behind this slanderous flyer.” Senator Beilmon replied that the quote was falsely attributed to him, saying he referred to the quote in testimony, but the statement was not made by him. The senator also wrote directly to the “National Spirit of 76 Tax Study Foundation" denying the statement. Senator Beilmon also referred the flyer to Senators Lawton Chiles and Richard Stone of Florida for further investigation. The Anti-Defamation League in Atlanta is obviously concerned about the leaflet, as are many others in Atlanta. “We’ve got many people calling who are upset. As far as I know a new group is passing around the material but it is unfortunately not a new concept when Jews are accused of controlling taxes,” said ADL Director Stuart Lewengrub. Where exactly are the flyers being found in Atlanta? “It is pretty well distributed. There were complaints that the literature was being distributed in the Piedmont-Peachtree Crossing Shopping Center, Ansley Mall, Broadview Plaza and across from Sears on Ponce de Leon," Lewengrub said. Martin Kwatinetz of Atlanta became so upset that he sent a copy See Flyera, Page 21.