Show '' I r i I b :: I The Salt Lain Tribune :8A 167 Octoi)er :7 Friday - :Russia Today ' :: '' t —' — -- can meet Soviet Jews every day whose reactions to the foreign campaigns ranget from total bewilderment to One a today There are pniet illote Jews in the Soviet Union :than in Israel only the United States has a larger Jewish Jew 1 4 sincere Soviet Union ''But there are mor people eutside Soviet frontiers who Anse: deeply concerned about :6:status of Soviet Jews than P itrcre are Jews in the Soviet ltkson Varying Reactions What has been persecuted Ole Soviet Communists are en:the defensive about the through half a century of the ilrws and they have much to Soviet system is the Jewish be:aelensive about heritage religious practices some world concern is and culture Soviet pressures for assimil)?placed A picture has been etlated of a community of al-- ation strictures on worship troSt three million Jews under limitations on teaching chilperrcution living in daily dren about God geographical misery and fearing for their dispersion plus traditional — lives This picture is wrong if frowned upon — sentiments A : - A ' i i '''-- ----- i " ' 7'''''''''''” - - la : - i' a aaa i IF - - - - ' 4 - ii at rt J - 1 a a ' ' 1 - 11 a a P ' l I ! 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' -- - l i a - a I 11 ''- - f -- ' ‘a '' - " 41 - i a - - ' ' ' L 1 - ' 0 : - f - ') :'' ' 1 ' '' ' ' - i ' area' !i14 - titi' —Toss from 1 a- - k: 'a Sovtoto a 1 - Photo Riders carry the Torahs during a synagogue lerVICe Ja Odessa Old Jewish songs and customs stilliVe o 'Scanning World News i1 0 e ' ::WIIdeat Strikes Threaten i i ' di : British Cabinet Exports 1 I1 ' :J ZON'DON (AP) — Wildcat spread across IF1'Irs ranks Tittirsday with i 1 broad Britain of in open workers apparently revolt against the Labor govrnment they put in power avi even against their own I I '1 trade union leaders The unofficial strike action Wqs holding up more than 500 rllion dollars worth of vital exports endangering national economic recovery and thus jeopardizing the British bid to iti41 the European Common kirket il ' 1 lAbor's Popularity Dips The Labor government's arity rating in the opin Jill polls plunged to its lowest jevel since taking office three Years ago on a platform of restoring the sickly national 111 -- 4 1 I economy The most urgent problem facing the government was the wildcat strike of dockworkers in London and Liverpool the two ports that handle 63 per cent of Britain's exports Reject Union Bid dockers out in voted overwhelm- The 10000 Liverpool ingly Wednesday to continue their strike for parity with London dockers and hooted down n's appeal to theiwork return The Liverpool tieup is now in its sixth week The London walkout spread Thursday with more than 7000 men out also in opposition to the appeals of union leaders In all 143 ships were tied up in the two ports with exports valued at 418 million dollars waiting on the dockside and another 140 million dollars worth tiedl up in the pipeline Shot Heard To und World Fair ' oa society Jewish religious corn- is devoid of energetic muleaderstiny r 1 1 1 MONTREAL (Al') — Expo office has resecurity ceived hundreds of calls since the fair began in April but of ficials Thursday told of one they said tops the list It concerned an Expo maintenance yard employe who called for help one morning shouting that someone was firing a cannon at hint And he was right Security personnel discovered that somehow someone - for Somehow Expo too Express trains the intruders had managed to bring some gunpowder along They probably were just ay LAGOS NIGERIA — Fed- eral troops have killed a white mercenary the first to be positively identified as such and the first proven white casual tY of the ground war in the outskirts of the port city of Calabar IA southeastern Nigeria The man whose name and rationality have not been dis a anyone when real cannon ball roared into the air and tore a hole in the maintenance building below The cannon has been removed Nigerian ‘Troops Kill New York Times Service 1 maintenance yards as First White 4 dosed was dressed in a camouflage uniform decorated by the rising sun shoulder patch of the secessionist "Republic of Biafra" when he was killed in a skirmish Monday Ills body was photographed in Calabar Wednesday and the picture was printed In the Lagos Daily Times Thursday morning (Copyright) US Finds Viet Desertion Leaflets BERLIN (AP) — A contain- er full of leaflets urging American soldiers to desert rather than face duty in Viet-trihas been found in the colnpound of the US head114rtors in Berlin -- Some reports said the container was lobbed into the compound by a homemade Imortarlike device A US -erkrmY spokesman Thursday confirmed the leaflets had m been found but said it was not known how they got there There were between 25 and 50 of the pink leaflets he sem included and they these words: "Are you sure you will survive Vietnam" Play safe Don't let them send you there Your government cannot defeat a people fighting for We national independence offer you a stele place in Can- or Denmark" ada Swedn 4b '11 Iiii'' w f' 4- - -- ' '' i r' - --- - magazine in Yiddish Sovetish Ileimland grew from a bimonthly to a monthly in 1964 and in 1968 the editors hope to enlarge it from 160 pages to MI Yiddish folk singers regularly perform in Moscow and other cities Traveling dramatic present companies Yiddish productions including Aleichem Shalom stories even though the permanent er in Moscow Yiddish thel has not been closed by reopened Stalin's great Soviet encyclopedia commented in 1952 with finality that "in the past the Jews of Russia spoke Yiddis h" recent work en the languages of the Soviet Union devotes an entire chapter to Yiddish Among the 3000 letters received by the editors of Sovetish Heimland last year were many from young Jews eager to learn or study Yiddish A five-volu- "I suspect that there are more young Jews studying or reading Yiddish in the Soviet Union now than there are in the United States" said the magazine's Chief Editor Aron N'ergelis Religion Is carefully exclud- ed from the cultural activity Do you print any religious 19 ?- : VN1 '''''' fl't '' ' - - rah-bi- g n 4 ' - A - ) ' '' '''L 0 ir F ) ' ' : 1' zt ' Nr: ' 1 (:Al --1 A Ia L it 0 t '"' ' '' i k " ''1 I t PARROT TULIPS 10:411k Beg 10 for $129 SALE 10 for theological sem- the v-i' - Russian Orthodox clergymen regularly leave the country to attend international conferences Bibles hymnals and prayer books are exchanged But not among Jews The relaxation of the last few years has enabled foreign rabbis to visit the Soviet Union confer with Soviet tab Russian Fete May Open i convene in for a before the (Copyright) i K 1 s' i i c 1 T I —:jovori lito 1 skt:---'- and 4et) - :itz1 '" t 4A1 --4 t-- eK I ' 4611 4 ? 5( 4 LPLUS f' : 1 : V : 5 ' 1 I ' i A - i3OVI(:--' :icithAK MIMI I 4 49e ) if1 - I 4! 1r - seed —Tau from Sovfoto Photo This is the festival of Sim chat Torah On that night in the autumn the young flock to the synagogue they sing old Jewish songs as they dance in circles and pairs Far from hampering the lesWillies the police direct tral fic away from the street — Whatever the Soviet Union's foreign policy may be Jewish pride is not completely dead li During the week of fighting a young Arm" nian told of being nudged on a Moscow bus by a tote stran ger who apparently took him for a fellow Jew "We're really thumping them aren't we!" the stranger said The reply came "Excuse me I am an Armenian" "That's all right" said the Jew "you'll do the same to the Turks!" the in ' (Copyright) ' ‘ 9 01 - 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CrifTRIIIISS Lawns This Vail ua will i- t 1 5 'f !-- COLLECTION SPECIAL GROUP ONLY not regard it as desirable" The Supreme Soviet ' 'EU:111P r71-71Ail4P- -: SALE Soviet ' 4 now year EDis 3De Beg 149 i:?':: " 7' i-- Mamasa Yellow Kansas W hite I ': ''' - '' 4 t ''' ' '- ''''' 1 ' Gliant Nil i ' ' Piallt Noll' for Spring Garden Beauty ig:f IN ITU BLOOM LARGE PLANTS ':i Holland bulbs will add spring brilliance to your over 100 varieties to choose from 4 all garden 4cturedin full color display CHRYSANTHEMUMS Second the Jewish religious leaders find themselves virtually cut off from Jewish orgaoutside ) ' - 4':- Plant Now for Spring Garden Beauty 1 inaries to prepare its priests Cut Off nizations Union ‘I : - - t It 4 streets outside the Moscow central synagogues comes a vivid display of young Jews eager to identify themselves somehow with a tradition of which they know so little i V ' ' :i''': '' ''' 9 't!i'v - k 4- rt 'S '''- : ti 1 1'0 1r s:' g ' er 'i4t‘ 'z' '? al :' t 1111 ' 's "' Eager to Identify Each ((770 li : Fantasy Firebird Orange Favorite Texas Gold Blue Parrot Jewispulh ate three k Exotic top size bulbs lt 4 1 ' :' i - i: if- outside world would raise in discussions of In the Soviet Union The old Jewish community may exist no more but there are young Soviet citizens who know they are Jewish as well as Soviet ‘ ?:Al N- r 0 !' i- t! - j''''' 1 assurances that there Is no discrimination on the basis of nationality can convince the Jew who sees the Russian or t h e Ukrainian promoted ahead of him or who is refused a place at a university These are the issues that the young engineer wished the SALE! k Moscow yeshiva or seminary founded after a long struggle in 1956 is still without students Officials contend that there are no young people who wish to study to become rabbis The synagogue authorities speak of "temporary" difficulties in obtaining the restdence permits that any citizen from outside Moscow must have to live in the capital The point is that there is no institution known to operate in the Soviet Union where rabbis can be trained With fewer than a dozen rabbis now guiding the religious activity of Soviet Jews all of them over 60 the time may soon come when the world's second largest out a rabbi Even the Russian Orthodox Church Ls authorized to operThe r ' s t' I 'it t 1 t cf' -i''i ' -- ' Jewish community There are fewer than a dozen rabbis guiding Soviet Jews' religion FALL ill Without Students 1 1 S vihiitil li p) ( '' I (s 11 - i 4 l'S' '1 krq 0 1 'i 4 - '"'°''''' ' 'I!' - '' 4 - ' a ' 'ii ' ' --- ''' "? 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Vergelis was asked 'No we print very few articles against religion" he replied with the ideological instincts of an atheistic Soviet editor Ile laughed when it was explained the Question New York Times Service meant to refer to articles favMOSCOW — Tens of thouorable to religion sands of persons held in "The interests of the synaSoviet and labor prisons gogue don't concern us at ramps are expected to be reall" he said leased soon under an amnesty authorities I n honor of the 50th anniversa"When Soviet try to discourage Jews from ry of the Bolshevik rtevoluhon going to synagogue some tot The imminence of an amdenounce them as eignen Actually they are nesty was hinted today by trying to discourage anyone Aleksandr F Corkin chairman of the Soviet Supreme from going anywhere to worCourt Replying to a question ship God at a news conference Gorldn Nationality Designation said that under Soviet law The word "Jew" appears on an amnesty was a matter for official identity documents the presidium of the Supreme This is a legal designation of Soviet (parliament) but then nationality comparable to the he quickly added: Ukrainian Lat"As far as the Supreme designation vian or Uzbek Unlike the HilCourt is concerned we have terian branding of Jews this spoken out favorably on the In itself is the Soviet Union as discriminatory or derogatory Jews complain Religous that there is insufficient cernetery space in Moscow and Leningrad for Jewilh burials r 1 '' ' 1 (-a :if " - f — t' ‘Alibpfi l't 7 ' younger generation Culture Upsurge From a low point in the Yiddish culture early 1 now shows signs of an upsurge The national literary ki ' ' - ' ry osity — among Jews and Gentiles alike — about what being a Jew means To some the Jewish heritage may appear exciting and exotic in the homogeneous Communist society e ' i f' ' t I ! I 7 1 ''''' 3 s' : i kir ' 4r 1V1-- - 1 " - r1IT i: - ws Yiddish Study got into Ft St Helene an historic structure complete with cannons which overlooks the surprised '' e' ik 1 ' hurt pressure for gogue come by Stung Charges with the away from meetings In the dwindling supply of There that big even address congregis evidence Moscow of chief Rabbi ations at the synagogues Yehuda Leib Levin with a today's Soviet leaders have rabbis But no Soviet rabbis go feeling of pity for an old and "been stung by the charges of The new of generation abroad no Soviet religious otired man beaten down by reSoviet concerned For the last two years matfficials attend Jewish coligious oppression about social distinctions diszoh has been available at the Of Offers prayer ngresses Rabbi Nods I even books or paper on which crimination in synagogues jobs and It is also impossible to obSoviet Jews could print their schooling though the average Soviet tain any accurate idea of housewife is still not permitown have been firmly re ' Official statistics about the Rabbi Levin's views In his ted to buy flour for her own- fused number of Jews in high places tiny overcrowded office baking except on holidays Deep Concern go only part way toward alle- behind the Central Synagogue Until the political difficulJewish he is invallably surrounded These are matters of deeps ties of the war Per Jews fear capita of the officials congreby lay concern to religious Jews But account for last summer the flow of Jewfar more "speciagadon who carefully recite ish emigration last year and to the young Jewish engineer list" Jobs requiring advanced Soviet policy to foreigners this year was signifi a - early as the Rabbi nod& they are still the wrong education and trainig than cantly enlarged any other ethnic group of the issue' The happy Jew is found And 1967 saw signs of moveSoviet Union of secularization The Judamong the's' who have been ment on the long stalled projGood aism Is taking place in the ect for a new Hebrew prayer Sovietized They are the prodIs it In Union as Soviet book to replace the battered Aleksel As Premier N just ucts of 50 years of Soviet and scarce copies now passed other Jewish communities Kosygin said "Many of them power Soviet citizens first from hand to hand The printLike many reform Jews In occupy very high responsible Jews second US young Soviet Jews ing plant of Sovetish Helm the posts — one of rny deputies confidence feel that They land Interested not cento offered was the is a Jew" are particularly the prevailing atmosphere of Nevertheless no official tralI synagogue for an edition In the ritual use of matzoh or public life will not permit seof "reasonable" size rious manifestations of There are two instancea of for that is tamed discrimination in official poll 4P with Stalinism P': '""'"ICIO reliRecent years have seen a des toward the Jewish other AI: 17::i 7 new interest in Jewry among gion compared with denominations curithe Visitors h ip i "- '"' 4 '' 7: it ) rots ' "4- '' a V44114614110 - - '- - ' a c - ' w el ' ': V‘I 1 ''- ' '' ' 4' 7 ' '' a- - a re ' 1::' 'c' t - - a '' - 1 I ) A ' i' N ' 4 ''1' 'i‘ 4"' ' At ? 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'''''l t A :4 6 0 — ' VI''' coincided with a grain crisis' ' 1 1 ' - :- g ors - 1 ') 1 ' 6 across the country No Soviet 71 " ik 1 ': ' 1: pi citizens could buy flour for I r 41 ''" ' 1 '4- - ? i : 4:4 '''' 14- I' 40' ' i 1 - 11 any purpose Why should ( I fjk -'''' alUand synagogues be 1 -I t ''' I'' I :' V '4 te 't lowed to buy it for religious A :' ' -'N f5‘ )N )4 0 needs? 4:47!:4-'::: 0 : :14:: ::::::! : 71T One of the most tragic pereonal aspects of the status of I Jews is the immense diffi' ''4 01 i t1 $''A cl' -' 41 1 4 in -v y experience they culty t A a I !-i abroad to travel attempting A if " t t i ' '':Lc :iP 11 1 to he reunited even if only for -- 0 t 11' ' N V' N1 : '' a- -1 ''' a visit with their families in I ‘4111 Se':0meo 1114 '' ' 0 Israel and other countries Here again foreign travel restrictions apply to all Soviet Passover service Is conducted In a Moscow synathe nation's citizens Sos let assimilation has ? 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