R , I. JE\', 13!! !! ! STO'.i !CAL AS . QC. 11 2.C, ,;·r:EL L ST. p~~v . b , 0 1. 02906 \ \ \ \ ·11 }I Soviet Police Force 11 Jews To Leave Office l MOSCOW - More than 100 clear that they viewed this latest l Soviet Jews demanding action - the Soviet equivalent of permission to emigrate to Israel a sit-In - as a last-ditch I were forced Wednesday to leave attempt. About 30 Moscow Jews THE ONL y ENGLISH-JEW/SH WE EKLY IN R. I. AND SOUTHEAST MASS . an of!lce building of the Supreme staged a similar sit-In two weeks Soviet that they had been ago and reportedly were gl ven occupying for several hours. permission to emigrate a few I VOLUME LV, NUMBER 2 FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1971 16 PAGES 15c PER COPY J ewlsh sources said that days later. several hundred Soviet policemen Western correspondents said - one source said there had many of the 11:roup entering the '·' Charlie Coken been 400 - had entered and Supreme Soviet bulldlng Wed­ i surrounded the of!lce bulldlng,100 nesday, and a few actually yards trom the Kremlin Wall, and mingled In the ofnce with them told the group, composed mainly briefly. But about 5 p.m., Soviet Works Almost As Hard In Retirement of Jews from Latvia and plainclothesmen began dispersing Lithuania, to leave. The sources the newsmen on the steps of the said that the group had left Lenin Library across from the As Before, But He Enioys It peacefully and that no arrests had building. It houses the r eception been reported. r oom of \he Presidium of the By CELlA ZUCKERBERG Earlier In the day the J ews Supreme Soviet, the coun­ What Is Charlie Coken doing had pledged to remain In the try's highest law-making body. now that he has retired? He's building until they r eceived a No newsman was known to working! Charles Coken of favorable r eply to their have witnessed the eviction of the Hamilton Street (and we doubt If em I g rat lo n petition. It was group from the building. there Is anyone In the city who add{essed to President Nikolai v. The first group to arrive knows him who calls him anything Podgorny and Premier Aleksel N. today, about 60 J ews from the b11t Charlie) has worked several Kosygin. Riga area ln Latvia, entered jobs tor many, many years, Many of the J ews In the group about 11 a. m., presented their Besides his work at the Atlantic told Western newsmen that they petition to the secretary on duty Refining Company, the job from had been applying to emigrate for and said they would wait for a which he has just retired after 43 years without success and It was r eply. years, he has worked for the Touro Fraternal Association for 26 years, and for Temple Beth Rhode Island Committees Pion Israel for many, many years (he was president of the temple from 1962 to 1964 and has served In Demonstration On Soviet Jewry several other offices of -the A demonstration, planned to suspend all talks with the USSR temple,) He has ~lso worked for Jointly by th e Int e rfaith including trade, culture, peace the John Fogarty Center, the Committee for Soviet Jewry and and dis-armament until the Soviet Rhode Island Foundation for the Jewish Defense League, will Union lets Its J ewish captives R e tar ded Children, an begin at 12 noon Sunday, March go." organization with which he still 14, ln front of Veteran' s Sunday's march 1s in con­ spends a great deal of time. Memorial Auditorium. junct l o n with a nationwide According to his wife, Demonstrators plan to march effort · to stage Soviet Jewry Katherine (she Is better known as t.rom the auditorium to the steps protests In every capital city on Kitty), who also works for of the statehouse. Sunday, March 14. several organizations Including Monday, March 8, the Th e s e c a p I t a 1-c l t y the temple, the Fogarty Center sponsoring committees sent a demonstrations will be followed­ and the Jewish Home for the telegram to Gov. Frank Licht up Sunday, March 21, with a Aged, she hasn't the usual Inviting him to be present at the march on the White House, complaint of a woman whose CHARLES AND KITTY COKEN demonstration and urging him "lo sponsored by the J ewish Defense husband has retired. He has so for her. very few from Touro or the notify President Nixon to suspend League. All participants In the many other thlngsto do, he Isn' t More than 200 people attended temple. Rabbi J acob Handler of all talks with the Soviets until March 14 protests are urged to under her feet at all; but now they the· Arco retirement party which Temple Beth Israel, whom Mr. they pledge to free Soviet J ews." attend the March 21 protest. can have lun c h together was given for him on Saturday, Coken praised greatly, did attend. The protesters will ask Gov, Providence J ews will leave In occasionally, or he can do some January 23, at the Venus de MIio. Mr. Coken started working for Licht to send the following buses from Marvel Gym at 12:15 of the family chauffeuring once In And Mr. Coken remarked that the Atlantic as a stock ledger telegram to President Nixon: a.m. Sunday, March 21 , to go to a while which makes life that these were mainly close relatives clerk at $20 a week ( which In "The freedom of the Soviet Washington, D, C. Interested much easl.er and more pleasant and men he had worked with, and (Continued on page 14) Jews Is In your hands. I urge you persons may call 272- 2985. Ladies' Association To Present Original Musical C~medy A musical comedy, "The Tante Makes a Shldduch," (The Aunt Makes a Match"), will be presented at 12 noon Wednesday, March 17, at Temple Emanu-EJ Meeting House. Mrs. Elliot Revkln Is chairman. The play, directed and narra ted by Mrs . Martin Rosenthal, will be performed at the annual Donor Luncheon of the Ladles' Association of the Jewish Home for the Aged. Proceeds will go for maintenance of the home. Rabbi Leslie Y. Gutterman of Temple Beth-El will give the invocation. Past presidents, Mrs. Max Leach and Mrs, · Semon Weintraub are on the advisory committee. Assisting Mrs.- Revkln are Mrs. Perry Summer, co­ Mr1. Elliot Rovlcin chalrm a n; Mr s . Bernard Daniel Podrat, Mrs. Arthur Gladstone, luncheon; -Mrs. Rosen and Mrs. Perry Summer. William Fellner, treasurer; Mrs. Captains Include Mrs. Leo Morris P. Schwartz, Goldberg, Mrs. Julius Krasner, reservat ions; Mrs. Harry Mrs, Maxwell Lopatln, Mrs, Greenspan, contributions; Mrs. Isador S, Low, Mrs. Aaron Harry Seltzer, Jlllbllclty. Nemtzow, Mrs. Norman Others are Mrs. Harold Pomarantz, Mrs. Louis L. · Stvdent·Michael R. Katz Works Kelman, hostesses; Mrs. Adrian Rottenberg, Mrs. Alvin V!!nokoor, Horovitz, decorations. On the Mrs. Joseph Waksler and Mrs. s ouvenir Journal committee are Herman Wasserman. ' 'Mrs. Barney Goldberg, chairman; Hostesses are Mrs . Irving As lnt.ern To Attorney General Mrs. L eo Gr eenberg, co­ Abrams, Mrs, Myer Bedrlck, By CAROL W. SNAPP people who care, Mr. Katz does Inmates. chairman and Mrs. Ben Poulten, Mrs . John Dannln, Mrs. Samuel Michael R; Katz - now more than s it and talk about how "They told me t!Je report editor. Fabrlcant, Mrs. Barney there's a name to remember - much he cares over a cup of would be no good if I didn't follow · The Woonsocket commltt-ae Goldberg, Mrs. Adrian Horovitz, he may be famous someday, He' s coffee. He acts. It up, so I felt I had a moral includes Mrs. Myer Bedrlck, Mrs. George Ludman, Mrs. Important 'already, and someday Rece n t 1 y he Initiated a obligation to follow It up," he chairman; Mrs. David Daniels, Aaron Nemtzow, Mrs. Leo Rosen, when he's no longer a student and tutoring program at the Adult said, Thus, the tutoring program. Mrs. Shepple Dressler, Mrs. Mrs. Louis L. ~ottenberg, Mrs. he's able to devote run time to Correctional Institute (AC!) In The political science major Philip J,. Macktez, Mrs. N.athan Joseph Waksler, Mrs. Leonard his efforts In the field of Justice, Cranston. At first, he. did a presently Is participating In a 12- Tlchton and Miss I. Esther Falk, White and Mrs. Ell Winkler. he'll more than likely be famous research project on the AC!, and week Internship to R.I. Attorney N!!WJX>rt chairman ls Mrs. John In the chorus are Mrs. Louis as well as Important. Included In It some plans for General Richard J, Israel. The Dannln. Brown, Mrs. Joseph Chernick, He ls Important now, be.cause rehabl.Jltatlon. While he was tutoring program Is one of his secretaries are Mrs. Irving Mrs. Bernard Gladstone, Mrs. he cares a great deal about preparing the project, the Roger projects during the Internship. Abrams, Mrs . Walter Axelrod, David Horovitz, Mrs. Sandra Improving various aspects of the Williams College Junior had an Mrs. George Ludman, Mrs. Kaufman and Miss Susan Zarum, field of Justice, but unlike many opportunity to talk with several · ( Continued on page 14) 2 nrn RHODE ISLAND HERALD, FRIDAY.MARCH 12, 1971 AFL-CIO labor federation, Hlstadrut. We MIAMI BEACH - 1lle urge our government to give executive council of the AFL-CIO Israel full diplomatic, political meeting here adopted a resolution and economic support In her that stressed the Important role efforts to secure a just peace of the United States In settlement." A second resolution guaranteeing world .peace.