(Copyright 1971 Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) Jerusalem (JTA) — Foreign Minister Abba Eban expressed "great concern" over the fato of about 40 Iraqul Jews reportedly awaiting trial in a Baghdad jail. Reliable sources said at least three of the Jews
face summary execution and that death sentences may be pronounced on several others. Ebafl said "this serious development is yet another reminder of the sad state of Iraqi Jews." He dismissed an "off-the-cuff" denial by the Iraqul Embassy in Paris that
any Jews are being held. "There are rumors that the Iraqi rulers intend to stage executions of Jews," Eban said. "We would like to believo that the Iraqi rulers would not dare to repeat the barbarity of public hangings in the squares of Baghdad and that the civil-
ized world will not stand by idly." He said 'The Israel government has t a k e n and willt continue to take all possible steps and will not rest until there is an end to the persecution Of Jews in Iraq and In other Arab countries and until these Jews are freed." Protests In London, a delegation representing the Board of Deputies of British Jews presented a letter to the Iraqi Ambassador expressing "shock" over the reports. Tiie letter, signed by Board president Michael Fidler and Lord Janner, also referred to other reports that 136 Jewish men, women and children were facing trial in 'Iraq. It appealed to the Iraqi government to act in accordance with human rights concepts permitting any person to leave any country including his own. Jewish students and adults demonstrated peacefully out? side Jhe Iraqi Embassy in London protesting the imprisonment and threatened execution of Jews in Iraq. The demonstration was organized by student groups with the back-
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Des Moines—Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli ambassador to tho United States, will address a meeting of the Paco Setter Division of the 1971 AlUn-One Campaign of the Jewish Welfare Federation. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, Apr. 27, at Johnny and Kay's Hyatt House. Cocktail hour will bo at 7:15 p.m. followed by dinner at 8:15 p.m. Men in the Paco Setter Division are those who contrib-
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ute a minimum of $1500 per person to the Campaign. Sheldon Rablnowitz is chairman of the Division. Ambassador Rabin was born in Jerusalem in 1922 of American pioneer Zionists. He was graduated with honors from the Kadoorle Agricultural School in Lower: Galilee. Shortly thereafter ho enlisted in the Pal*' mach, a unit of tho Haganah, underground citizen army. During 27 years of defense service
Special Service April 22 In Memory of 6 Million
he rose to Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and Commander of the Israel Army In toe Six^Day War, __.-
.. Omaha—A ^city-wide. Service in memory of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Nazi concentration camps, will be held Thursday, April 22, at 8 p.m. at Temple Israel. Participating in the annual service will be Rabbi Myer Kripke, Rabbi Sidney Brooks, Rabbi Isaac Nadoff, Cantor EIchonon Gelberg, Cantor Manfred Kuttner and Cantor Aaron Edgar. A special message will be presented by Rabbi Nadoff. Brief greetings will be offered ' by Aron Zeiderman. Six Ylzkor candles will be kindled by members of the community who were survivors of the Nazi tragedy. Participating in the candle ceremony will be Messrs., and Mmes. Ig-
Student Pickets Protest Sale Of Russian Goods by May Co. Los Angeles (JTA) — The city's largest department store, the May Company, was picketed this week by more than 200 students protesting its selling of Russian vodka, caviar and furs and its giving floor space to a travel agency selling tours . to the Soviet Union. „ The demonstration was co' ordlnated by the Southern California Council for Soviet Jews and the California Students for Soviet" Jews. Zev Yaroslavsky, chairman of the SCCSJ, said the demonstrators had "exposed (May's) complicity with the S o v i e t s ' oppression of Jews" and "we intend to see to it that Americans stop spending American .dollars in the Fascists' dictatorial S o v i e t Union." He added that there
was "an excellent possibility that May Company will take all Soviet - g o o d s off their shelves and will evict the travel agency involved in selling tours to the USSR." „ Should such a decision be made by the store, Yaroslavsky said, it would be "an unprecedented step to a meaningful and significant boycott." But, he added: "If they don't make any concessions then we will make hell for May Company," Si Frumkin, chairman of the CSSJ, declared: "We will be back again not only at May Company but' at any other department* store or travel agency which deals economically with tho Soviet Union." The two demonstrating groups are affiliated with the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews.
ing of the Board of Deputies o! British Jews and other majof Jewish organizations. A demonstration for the im< periled Iraqi Jews was held la front of the Iraq Mission in New York to the United Nations by a group of youngsters representing the Youth Coinmittee for Peace and Democracy in the Middle East. Appeal to Nixon The Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada urged President Nixon to intervene on behalf of the imprisoned Iraqi Jews. A telegram to the President was signed by Rabbi Mosha Feinstein, president of the oi> ganization and Rabbi Meir Co* hen, executive director. It said. "We earnestly appeal to you to make every necessary en* deavor to save the innocent lives of three Jews in Iraq. W$ also ask you- to intervene on behalf of all arrested Jews in that country on false and trumped up charges and oifc behalf of the Jewish population in Iraq and also in Syria ana Egypt who are subject to severe and extensive oppression, and savage torture."
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nac. Grossman, Salamqn Kinstlinger and Carl Rosenberg. Dr. Bennett Flshbain, chairman of the Memorial for 6 Million Committee, urges all members of the community to attend. In a letter to the presidents of the various Jewish organizations in the community, Dr. Fishbain said, "The holocaust is a black page in our history which we. must never permit to be forgotten. The 6 million victims look to us to keep their memory alive. It Is incumbent upon us to join together in this service of memorial. As president of your organization, I hope you will'do everything possible to encourage your membership to be present."
Proposed Bill Would Grant 30.000 Yisas to Soviet Jews Washington (JTA)—Rep: F. legislation to aid refugees, as Bradfords Morse, Republican of in the cases of Hungarians in Massachusetts, said this week 1956, Czochoslovakians in 1963 that legislation introduced to and Cubans for the past three provide 30,000 special refugee year.s. The Massachusetts Repvisas for^Soviet Jews was "a resentative contended that even : challenge to the Soviet Union if the Soviets permitted Jewto permit those Jews who wish " ish emigration on a modest to leave to do so and to show scale, the present American that the United States would quota for Eastern Hemisphere welcome them here." refugees—10,200 a year—would The proposed legislation has bo inadequate. He added that 47 co-sponsors to date. Morse 'enactment of the visa bill might' pointed; out that Congress had • induce other nations to do likela the past put through special wisa, , , „ , . „ . ; . . • , , .,.;.•....,..;-;
New York .'. .Leonard Rlgcrman, recently arrived in this country from the Soviet Union, greets the crowd as "Freedom Flag for Soviet Jewry" is raised at a rally across from U.N. Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman, chairman of the New York Conference for Soviet Jewry, which sponsored the event, stands behind microphone. Russian word for "freedom" appears below the six-pointed red star on field of white. The program was dedicated to Ruth Aiexandrovieh and other imprisoned Russian Jews. New York Congressman Mario Braggl said that, the "cultural and religious genoi clde of the Soviet Jews was not just a Jewish issue, but one of concern to all peoples. The Ru«•laag are only a little more,subtle than ftcf.Npris/'jBO,said>.(,t ;t, w t , , . > j i , , . . . , j n 4 ( | . A,,t -
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