Klemsti Floridian
Off Tampa
r^. 5-Number 40
Tampa, Florida Friday, November 25,1983
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Nellye Friedman Appointed Chairman of
Women's Division Lion of Judah Division
kfusemks Mr. and Mrs. Ilya Vaisblit, parents of Alexander
onorousky.
Annual Women's Plea
for Soviet Jewry Dec 5
I The Annual Women's Plea for
leviet Jewry community
ervance will be Monday
tiling. Dec. 5. 7:30 p.m., at the
rish Community Center.
| The national observance, also
own as "Human Rights Day"
\ being sponsored by the Tampa
irish Federation Women's
division, convened this year by
regation Schaarai Zedek
gterhood.
| "The observance coincides
ain this year with Chanukah;
national theme of 'Light
heir Way To Freedom' wiU be
Diured in Tampa," said Lili
aufmann, President of the
?omen's Division. "This will
us to remember that there
;Jews, lots of Jews, millions of
Jews, locked in the Soviet Union
|ho are neither permitted to
ctice their Judaism nor
Jermitted to emigrate to a land
[here they could."
The entire community is
fcvited to observe this Plea;
Uest speaker is Alexander
jonorovsky, now an Israeli but
nerly from Russia.
I Alexander Gonorovsky, born
pugust 11, 1946, lives in
ehovot. Israel with his wife and
hild. He immigrated to Israel in
November, 1978.
i In Moscow, he attended the
(iviation College, Officers Mili-
Courses on Modern
eaponry, and received a
asters degree in English from
W Iniveristy of Moscow,
Faculty of Foreign Languages in
|9"4. Currently, he is employed
Tadiran Systems, in Holon,
|wael. as an English technical
fiter of manuals, engineering
orts. and manufacturing
lures.
[Gonorovsky became actively
nvolved in the Aliyah movement
1971, though he was not
wily a Refusenik. In 1973, he
*wn studying Hebrew with the
iks, Sharansky and other
ell known Aliyah activists and
urim in the Moscow Refusenik
nmunity. He taught English
1 private classes ana among his
udents and included amongst
_ close friends were Tda
Ml, *Iosif Begun, ?Victor
IBrtilovsky. Dina Beuina. and the
lAbramovich and Prestin >fn
H'Today these are Prisoners of
on or former Prisonrs of Zion.)
lii2.0nJ!?v,ky i bare m the
pW States to speak on behalf
* au Refuseniks but also on
Jjnof his father, Ilya Vaisblit,
.65. who has been refused
aion to leave the Soviet
^nn for t, vaors. Mr. Vaisblit
from multiple sclerosis
, 1966, is nearly deaf, half
1 bedridden with
Alexander Gonorovsky
S%%
Nellye Friedman has been ap-
pointed chairman of the Tampa
Jewish Federation Women's Lion
of Judah Campaign Division,
which includes contributors of
$5,000 and up. The announce-
ment was made by Campaign Co-
chairman Bobbe Karpay and
Jolene Shor.
"There were 14 charter mem-
bers of the Lion of Judah Divi-
sion last year," stated Friedman,
"and we hope to double and triple
that this year! The Lion of
Judah, a symbol of strength in
Jewish life, was instituted as a
14K gold pin by the Miami Wom-
en's Division Campaign in 1972.
It was created to serve as a
symbol of commitment for a
woman whose personal pledge to
the annual campaign is $5,000 or
more.
"Communities around the
world have chosen to identify
themselves with the pin using
Miami's guidelines. Seeing some-
one else wearing the pin in unex-
pected locations all over the
Nellye Friedman
world gives one an identity as a
proud, strong supporter of Israel,
and that's the kind of identity of
which anyone can be truly
proud," Friedman concluded.
Nellye Friedman has been a
very viable, visible supporter of
the Tampa Jewish Federation
and the Women's Division for
many years, having served in
many top leadership positions.
She is a past president of Congre-
gation Schaarai Zedek Sister-
hood, member of the Executive
Committee and the Board of
Directors of Congregation
Schaarai Zedek.
Friedman also serves on
various boards of community
services. She is married to Herb-
ert J. Friedman, and her children
are Frances, Bui, Frank, and
Mary (Mrs. Theodore Kramer).
A Dec. 1 Campaign luncheon
for the Lion of Judah Division is
being planned at Nellye's home.
Guest speaker is Dora Roth, an
Israeli who will tell of her person-
al experiences from the con-
centration camps to modern Is-
rael.
False 'Open Letter'
Soviet Jews Circulate Obvious Lie
paralyzed limbs. He was
pronounced 100 percent disabled
by the Soviet authorities in 1976.
Vaisblit is a survivor and his
parents and brothers were
murdered by the Nazis in Odessa
during World War II.
The day's events include a
Proclamation signing ceremony
with Mayor Bob Martinez;
several media conferences; and
the program that evening which
will include an essay contest that
will name a winner and runner-up
from each religious school; a
candle-lighting ceremony with
the Tampa Congregational
Rabbi's participating; and
hearing from Tampa's own
Russian community.
Carter Wants
Concessions
By HENRIETTE BOAS
AMSTERDAM (JTA) -
Former President Jimmy Carter
has listed three concessions he
believes Israel must make to
achieve peace in the Middle East.
In a televkkm interview with the
New York correspondent of the
Dutch NCRV broadcasting com-
pany, Carter called for Israel's
complete withdrawal from Lab*
anon, adding that Syria must do
the same.
Secondly, Carter said. Israel
must be willing to carry out in
good faith, the granting of auto-
nomy to the people of the West
Bank. Carter said.
from Czarist Russia to escape
pogroms to realize that the roots
of national discord have long
been eliminated in the Soviet
Union."
The letter claimed further that
the Soviet Union has been
"falsely reported as being hostile
to the existence of Israel"
whereas it opposes only Zionist
policies. American Jews were
urged to work with the Soviet
people for world peace.
Abram observed that the letter
"was a propaganda offensive
tailored to Western readers .
couched in appeals for 'world
peace' from selected Jews, and
used the standard line that the
Soviet Union has nothing against
the state of Israel except its
'Zionist policies.' He added,
"To claim that one is not anti-
Jewish or anti-Israel while con-
veniently designating as 'Zionist'
a myriad of evils is Orwellian
'double-think' that fools no one."
KRONISH DECLARED:
Continued on Page 4
This photo, circulated by the National Conference on Soviet
Jewry, call* upon Russians to 'Start building the (concentra-
tion) camps according to the models already tried,' The cartoon,
appearing initially in 'Perets,' draws upon stereotypical
features straight out of Nazi propaganda posters and material
used to incite Czarist pogroms, according to Mania Abram,
chairman of CCSJ.
an
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Leaden of the Sovet Jewry
movement here have de-
nounced as blatantly false
n "open letter" from 60
Soviet citizens of Jewish
nationality" addressed to
American Jews urging
them to discount reports of
anti-Semitism in the USSR.
Referring to the "open letter"
which was carried by Tass, the
official Soviet News agency,
several days ago, Morris Abram,
chairman of tea National Con-
ference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ)
said it waa "a blatant example of
Soviet hypocrisy." Herbert
Kronish, chairman of the Greater
New York Conference on Soviet
Jewry (GNYCSJ). called the
letter an "absurd and tragic he."
THE SIGNATORIES are
associated with the "Anti-Zionist
Committee of the Soviet Public"
Their letter said, "We under-
stand that it may be difficult for
some American Jews whose
fathers and grandfathers fled
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