The Jewish Times

              Jewish Interests
Before The Congress
Part 2
See Goldberg's Column on Page Seven
THE   JEUJI5H
VOL. XXVI No. 46 Thursday, July 8,1971 Price Ten Cents
Zand States
Soviet Jewry Must
Seek Emigration Rights
Jerusalem, (JTA)-Prof. Mikhail I. Zand believes the struggle
lor Soviet Jewry must concentrate exclusively on their right to
emigrate to Israel, not merely to alleviate the repression of
Jewish cultural and religious freedom in the USSR.
In  his  first   public   appearance
since he landed in Israel recently,
Zand claimed that the only hope for
the spiritual survival of Soviet
Jewry was in emigration to Israel.
Addressing a session of the Zionist
General Council, Zand said he took
issue with a group of Western rabbis
who had suggested the slogan "Let
my people live" as a corollary of
"Let my people go." He rejected the
implications of the former on
grounds that the Jewish people could
never live as Jews in the Soviet
Union. "There is no future for the
Jewish people in Russia except
assimilation," he said. "The future
is only here. The fight must be for
the right to emigrate, not the right to
stay there.
Zand, a scholar specializing in
Oriental languages, obtained the
right to emigrate only after con-
siderable anguish and hardship for
himself and his family. Earlier this
year his activism got him a 15-day
jail term for "hooliganism" in
connection with demonstrations
against the Leningrad and Riga
trials. He was fired from his job at
the Institute for Eastern Studies. He
was granted an exit visa earlier this
month only to have it revoked within
a few hours on grounds that he had
to be investigated for alleged
"undesirable activities." His new
visa was finally granted only after
pressure was brought to bear by the
academic communities in the U.S.,
Israel and other countries.
Zand  told   the   Zionist   General
Council that he and his family were
escorted to Moscow airport by 100
friends who asked that he convey
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U.S. Aides In Mideast
Continue Peace Efforts
Continuing efforts to reopen the Suez Canal, I Michael Sterner, are in Cairo for talks with
two American diplomats, Donald C. Bergus and | unidentified Egyptian officials.
Bergus and Sterner, who refused
to answer questions about
developments in their diplomatic
quest, were met by reporters and
cameramen rather than by Egyp-
tian Foreign Ministry officials.
Bergus is head of the U.S. interests
section in the Spanish Embassy in
Cairo and Sterner is the State
Department's expert on Egyptian
affairs.
Egyptian officials have been
expecting an answer to their note
asking for clarification of the
American position on the Middle
East crisis. The visit of the U.S.
diplomats has been described as an
attempt to clear the obstructions
blocking the way to an interim peace
agreement between Egypt and
Israel.
In another development, political
circles in Jerusalem see little
News Highlights
SUPREME COURT DECISION
SPURS AJCONGRESS ACTION
New York, (JTA)-The U.S. Supreme Court's decision barring
state aid to private schools will be the basis of suits to halt such
aid in six states which the American Jewish Congress and the
American Civil Liberties Union announced they would sponsor.
Attorneys for the two groups said
suits would be filed challenging
recently enacted purchase-of-
services programs, voucher plans,
tax credits and teacher salary
supplements. Leo Pfeffer, special
counsel of the AJCongress and
ACLU legal director Melvin Wulf,
contended that no form of aid to
elementary and secondary private
schools beyond textbooks and busing
was permissable under the opinion
handed down by the court.
STATIC ANTI-SEMITISM
New York, (JTA)-The proportion
of Frenchmen holding anti-Semitic
attitudes  has  remained relatively
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static during the past five years,
even though relations between
France and Israel have become
strained and the late president
Charles de Gaulle made statements
widely considered anti-Semitic,
according to the findings of an
opinion poll on French attitudes
toward Jews reported here by the
American Jewish Committee.
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ISADORE BROMFIELD of Milton,
has been appointed chairman of the
building committee of New England
Sinai Hospital. He is a director of the
hospital, chairman of the advance
gifts committee of the development
fund, and formerly served on the site
committee. His present appointment
makes him responsible for all
aspects of the proposed construction
in Stoughton of the hospital's new
facility for long-term and chronic
illness. President and treasurer of
the Bromfield Corporation, ship-
builders of East Boston, he is a
director of Commonwealth National
Bank, a trustee of Curry College,
and founder of Metropolitan Yacht
Club, a board member of Temple
Shalom, Milton and he also belongs
to Temple Ohabei Shalom,
Brookline.
chance for success of the projected
new visit to Israel by Joseph J.
Sisco, the American Assistant
Secretary of State for Near Eastern
and South Asian Affairs, as long as
the United States position on the
Middle East problem remains un-
clear and as long as there is no
change in Egypt's position.
Sisco's visit is not yet certain, but
he has intimated his intention to
make the trip. What he has in mind,
according to the reported contents of
his recent conversation in
Washington with Israeli Am-
bassador Yitzhak Rabin, is to spend
a week in Israel for comprehensive
talks aimed at breaking the
deadlock over an interim solution
involving a reopening of the Suez
Canal.
Sisco was in Israel in May when he
accompanied Secretary of State
Rogers on a tour of five Mideastern
countries.
Circles here believe Sisco will try
to "sell" Israel a new State
Department policy advocating a
more extensive Israeli withdrawal
from the Canal line than was en-
visioned earlier. There are also
indications that the State Depart-
ment has abandoned one of the
major points on which it has been in
full agreement with Israel-that no
Egyptian troops may cross the
canal, even after an Israeli
pullback. These fears were reflected
by Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin in a
taped radio interview broadcast
here. Premier Golda Meir and
several Cabinet ministers objected
to the interview, but not necessarily
because they disputed its contents.
Rabin's interview, broadcast over
the Israeli radio for home con-
sumption, was sharply critial of U.S.
Middle East policies and blasted the
United Nations as "an institution for
demagoguery" whose "decisions
are meaningless unless the U.S.
supports them."
According to Rabin, the U.S. is
above all concerned with assuring
its own interests in the Mideast and
did not want a situation in which
Israel's friendship was America's
only asset in the region. He said the
U.S. sought a settlement, even if it
meant stripping Israel of most of the
territories captured in the Six-Day
War.
The Cabinet discussed Rabin's
remarks at its session and took the
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JDL To Open
Headquarters
In Israel
Tel          Aviv,           (JTA)--A
spokesman for the Jewish
Defense League told a press
conference here that the
militant organization which had
its origins in racially tense
neighborhoods of New York
three years ago, will soon open
headquarters in Israel.
According to Neil Rothenberg, a
20-year-old New Yorker who
presented himself as the "in-
ternational coordinator of the JDL
youth movement," its functions will
be entirely educational. Rothenberg
denied reports that JDL was shifting
its headquarters to Israel to escape
harassment by American
authorities. He claimed rather that
the aim is to form a headquarters in
"the international center of the
Jewish nation-Israel" to help by
educational means to "bridge the
gap between various groups."
Rothenberg described the JDL's
principles as "love of Israel" and
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