Foul Play Suspected in Death ofJewish Student •Paris (JTA)—A second autopsy performed on Roger AUouche, _a 14-year-old J e w i s h schoolboy who died in Toulouse last week, has confirmed his parents' suspicions t h a t the youngster's death was not due to natural causes. According to
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"We have killed the fear" is tbe slogan- of activist leader Mrs. Leila Kornfcld (shown with her 10-year-old daughter Natasba) and her friends in the Moscow Jewish resistance. Mrs. Kornfeld was in Prof. Alexander Lerncr's home when Congressman James Scheuer was arrested. Her husband Ilya, a Mechanical engineer, has been dismissed from his job for applying to go to Israel.
the parents, their son succumbed'to injuries inflicted by fellow students at the St. Nicholas School, a Jesuit institution which the boy attended. A police investigation was : opened at the insistence of the parents after an initial autopsy report said the boy died of natural causes. The principal . of the school had infdrmed the parents that Roger died after a "fainting spell." Roger was to have been buried last Friday but the burial was halted on police orders and a second autopsy was performed; The pathologist's. r e p o r t was jiot made public immediately. According to i n f o r m a t i o n from Toulouse, the pathologist told the boy's father unofficially that "your son did not die of natural causes." The, pathologist reportedly said he found abrasions and bruises all over Roger's body and that his testicles were broken. . Jewish sources reported that, the elder Allouche became suspicious of his son's death because the boy 'had a row. with his English t e a c h e - r at the school several weeks ago. The teacher allegedly called him a "dirty Jew." His father suspected that the boy was assault- • ed by other students because he was Jewish. There was no Immediate explanation ol why a Jewish boy was enrolled in a Jesuit school.
Special City-Wide Meeting in Des Moines This Sunday ' Des- Moines^A community-wide meeting has been called for Sunday, February^, at 11:30 a.m. at Temple B'nal Jeshurun to consider the special problems posed by massive Soviet Jewish immigration to Israel. •,.:._ ; Louis Pincus, chairman of the Jewish Agency and Pinlias Sapir, Israel's Minister of Finance, will talk to members of 160 Jewish communities in the United States via special telephone arrangements. The Des Moines community will participate in the .book-up. Lunch, will 'be served following the telephone call. After lunch, a recent escapee from the Soviet Union will address the group. The Russian, who speaks English, is spending a short time in the United States on a speaking tour before going to Israel to live. ••' All Sunday Schools and Religious Schools will be dismissed by 11 a.m. Sunday so that children and teachers may participate in this special meeting. Arrangements have been made for the care of younger children brought to the meeting by their parents.
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New York (JTA)—American Jewish leaders,, denounced- as "senseless," "shameful" and a setback to the cause of Soviet Jewry. the firebombings" last" week of the offices of impressario Sol Hurok and of Columbia Artists Management, Inc. One woman was. killed and 13
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other persons \yero injured in the fire in Hurok's office. Secretary of State William P. Rogers condemned the incident as "reprehensible and harmful to our national interest." In Jerusalem, Rabbi Meir Kahane, chairman of the Jew-' ish Defense League, said the
On Soviet Jewry Resblution Washington (JTA)—A bipartisan bloc of 45 Senators asked Senator J. William Fulbright (D.-Ark.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, this week; to begin hearings at tho "earliest possible date" on a Senate concurrent resolution regarding the plight : of.-. Soviet Jews. The resolution was referred to Fulbright's committee July .i2,JauLjiaJiearings have been scheduled to date... \ Sen. William E. Brock (RTenn.) and Henry M, Jackson (D-Wash.), the original co-sponsors of the resolution, pointed out in a letter to Fulbright that the House Foreign Affairs Committee had held hearings Nov. •9-10 on the House concurrent resolution. According to the letter, the House resolution '/expresses that it is the sense of Congress that Soviet Jews and all others within the border of that country should bo entitled
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Senator Harold H u g h e s (Iowa) is a co-sponsor of the Resolution. Senators Miller. (Iowa), - Curtis and Hruska Nebraska) are hot among the co-sponsors. the free exercise of religion." The* Senate resolution, Brock and Jackson said in a joint statement issued of the denial of religious freedom in Russia With the- highest levels:of:the Soviet government," arid;"also calls on the State Department to present Soviet violations of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights before the General Assembly."
perpetrators h a d to-be ."Insane" and denied that.anyone connected with^the JDL could have "done this. ' •' Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyvelci, president of the American Jewish Congress, said he was "appalled" at the "abominable attack" and added that the senseless brutality terribly damages 'and compromises the fight for Soviet Jews." Philip E. Hoffman, president of the American Jewish Committee, contended' t h a t "the case of Soviet Jewry is placed in jeopardy by such actions." David M. Blumberg, president of B'nai B'rith, denounced the apparent b o m b i n g s as "shameful.and senseless" and asesrted that "insane violence in the name of Soviet Jews is a cruel disservice to their struggle."
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Rabbi Oscar Groner, assistant national director of B'nal B'rith Hillel Foundations, said college youths wh,o arc militant on behalf of Soviet Jewry were "outraged by such tactics that are undermining to a humanitarian cause." ' •"
P. Schneider to Head Young Adult Campaign / Des Moines—Phil Schneider will serve as chairman of the Young Adult Division of the 1972 All-in-One* Campaign of the Jewish Welfare Federation. Mr. Schnelder.was chairman of the Young Adult Division in 1971 and; associate chairman of the same division in 1970. A member of the United Jewish Appeal cabinet, he was a co-organizer of the 1970' Des M o i n e s Young Leadership Group. He is a member of the 'board of the Community Rela: " tions Commission. ' Mr. Schneider is a law graduate of Drako University and is a tax specialist for Lybrand,
Ross Bros. & Montgomery, CPAs. ; Co-chairman of the Young Adult Division will be .Steve Blank, a member of the.BOard of Governors of the Federation, and a former member of the board of the Jewish Community Center. ' \ Mr. Blank is an executive with Central States Theater Corp.
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Georgian Jews to Settle in Galilee Sharm cl Sheik, Sinai: The Igloos that arc going up at Sharm cl Sheik at the southern tip ottlie Sinai peninsular may be reminiscent of the Arctic, but in fact they arc desert hotel' rooms. Tho rooms will meet the need of the thousands of Israeli and overseas touristswho have been coming. to this area since a new road linking the Israeli Red Sea Port of Eilnt with Sliarm was opened. People use the hotels as a base from which to enjoy the warm tropical waters, or to tour the austere but beautiful Sinai desert. Tho construction'is part of the -vast; hotel building program undertaken by the Israel Ministry of Tourism in preparation for the'25th''Anniversary of Israel in 1973. -,,;;;; ,%; \. • • •:, -
Jerusalem (JTA)—One thousand Jewish immigrant families from Soviet Georgia are to be settled in the Galilee under,a plan worked out by the Jewish Agency settlement department. According to the plan, soine 400; families will settle in a special quarter of the development "So . . . how can I increase town of Carmiel, and GOO in two neighboring rural settlements. my Jewish Welfare Federation ' The immigrants will work maln- Campaign pledge this year?" ' ty iu industry.. . , ,. ,. It's c a s y t . , . (See page 13.)';'
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