c (fl ti) < ..J < ,D t..> 0 o: 0- 0 C\1 I- 0 en New York Commissioner Soys Russ'ion Jews Still Honossed NEW YORK Nicholas tour, and Stanley H . Lowell, Scoppetta , the city 's chairman of the Greater New Commissioner of Investigation. York Conference on Soviet Jewry. who recently returned from a trip Lowell observed th a t to the Soviet Union, declared that Scoppetta 's report on his meetings ONLY ENGLISH-JEW/SH WEEKLY IN R I AND SOUTHEAST MASS. he found that despite Soviet with Soviet officials reflects the assertions to the contrary, certain " total inconsistency of 'official' _VII, Nl,JMBER 25, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1973 20¢ PER COPY 12 PAGES Jewish scientists and others who explanations for denying Soviet wish to emigrate have been Jews the right to live as Jews in subjected to loss of jobs, police the Soviet Union or to emigrate to surveillance and harassment, and Board Gets New Director fulfill themselves as Jews imprisonment for minor even elsewhere The first-hand infractions. witness of Scoppetta a nd W it~ Eye Towards Young,O/d At a City Hall news conference, Goldstein underscores reports we Scoppetta cited the <;ases of Dr. By PAULA TURANO Schwartz, this is due in part to the have received from Jews in the David Asbell of Moscow, a The new Bureau of Jewish Edu­ many colleges and universities in Soviet Union that the si tuation chemical engineering professor, cation's executive director is not the area. The third reason for the ha s not chang·ed , despite and Dr. Boris Rubinstein of only worried about the children of move to Rhode Island is to be Brezhnev ' s claims to the Leningrad, a physicist, who were the area he is now working in, he nearer their family, most of whom contrary." is also worried about _the elderly. arc located in the New York area. among the Jewish intellectuals he Elliott S. Schwartz wants to Mr. Schwartz has many other met with while in the Soviet Scoppella said a number of start a new program which would programs· he would like to initiate, Union . He said that both governmenl officials asserted that bring the old and the young to­ continue and expand, such as ex­ academicians lost their uni versity the issue wit h regard to the gether in a new learning program panding the current program of positions immediately alter filing emigration of Soviet Jews is one to benefit both groups. He would study tours to Israel from five stu­ applications to emigrate to Israel, created and perpetuated by a nti­ have the elderly meet with the dents per summer to 25. He also apparently in retaliation for doi ng Soviet pro-Zionist interests who youth to teach the trades and hob­ plans to continue and expand the so. wished to bring back the Cold bies they have learned over the program begun by Louis I. Kra­ Scoppella, who has submiued a War era. "They denied that any years. mer, former superintendent of report on hi s trip to Mayor John emigration problem existed at The new director, who assumed Jewish schools, in which the Bu­ V. Lindsay. was joined at the news a ll ." Scoppetta added that "All of his post on August I, feels the reau and the school boards of conference by Manhauan attorney the Jews we spoke to said they young and the old very seldom · various towns and cities in the EUJOTT S. SCHWARTZ David A. Goldstein. hi s former looked to America as their have a chance to understand the state jointly run. a Jewish ethnic coll eague in the M a nhatt a n principal hope in being able to problems of one another. The el­ studies progra m . Classes are supplying a placement service fo r District Allorney's office. wh o modify Soviet policies towards derly either live alone 'or in one of taught in the temples in the eve­ teachers and schools. and organ­ accompanied him on the two-week cm igration. ·• the special communities for the el­ nings and the students are given izing va ri ous interschool acti vities derly that are growing in popu­ credits toward graduation in the among which is the annual Bible Parental Indifference Blamed larity. The . lack of contact can public high schools. So fa