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Inna Meiman
Dead At 54
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
Inna Meiman of Moscow,
who was allowed to go
abroad last month for treatment of a tumor on her neek,
died Feb. 9 hi the Lombardi
Cancer Research Center of
Georgetown University Hospital. She was 54 years old.
She had refused to leave the
Soviet Union earlier because
her husband, Naum, a re-
fusenik since 1975, was not
allowed to accompany her.
Meiman was admitted to
the hospital on Jan. 20 and
was undergoing tests for the
start of chemotherapy.
When she applied to go
abroad, she said she wanted
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FOCUS ON ISSUES
Israel, Greece Sign
Cooperative Tourism Agreement
NEW YORK (JTA) — Israel and Greece announced last
week the start of an unprecedented cooperative tourism program to attract more American tourists to Israel and
Greece. "We are very excited about this historic venture,
which will link not only the world's oldest civilizations, but
also two of the most exciting vacation destinations in the
world," Simos Dimas of the Greek National Tourist Organization declared in a joint press conference here with Moshe
Shoshani, Israel's Commissioner for Tourism for North
America. j
According to the two officials, the Greece-Israel program
will promote U.S. tourism to both countries. It will encourage
tour operators currently active in this market to expand their
services and induce those not selling such combination packages, to enter the market. The two countries have allocated
$200,000 each for a joint advertising campaign that will implement the program.
Soviet Jewry Activists Attempting
To Assess Recent Policy Changes
(JTA) — Soviet Jewry activists trying to assess recent changes in Soviet policy
on emigration rights and dissidents in general, have welcomed the unexpected release of political prisoners,
including Jewish Prisoners
of Conscience, but remain
strongly skeptical as to
whether these moves indicate a genuine change of direction by the Soviet leadership or are merely a cosmetic device for propaganda
purposes.
ADDITIONAL $500,000 RAISED FOR PROJECT RENEWAL
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1987 Federation Campaign Achievement,
Announced At Closing Luncheon At JC On February 18
Norman L. Traeger, 1987
General Campaign chairman, announced the total for
the 1987 Fedration Campaign achievement,
$6,060,000 plus an additional
$500,000 for Jesse" Cohen
Columbus'Project Renewal
Community in Israel. •■"-'./'
The capacity crowd of 1987
Campaign volunteers, gathered at the Closing Luncheon
on Feb.18, cheered as
Traeger presented a four by
eight foot replica of a check
in the amount of $6,560,000 to
Federation president,
Miriam Yenkin. The check
was appropriately endorsed
by the Columbus Jewish
community.
Traeger said, "Tzedakah,
collectively represented by
the Federation campaign, is
a series of connections that
we have with the residents of
Heritage Village, the children of the pre-school at the
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center, our Kol Ami Community
Hebrew School — Torah
Academy, the youth from
OSU Hillel, the people from
Russia, our Israeli brothers
and sisters and our families
in Columbus."
The Federation campaign
supports 50 humanitarian
agencies and programs in
Columbus, throughout the
United States, in Israel and
33 nations around the world.
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said Traeger, "who are part
of the Federation Campaign
are the link — a link with
thousands of years of past of
the Jewish people — a link
toward Jewish continuity.''
The Federation Campaign
Closing, which honored the
workers and the leadership,
was a celebration of success.
The afternoon concluded
with co-chairwomen Ina Sue
Rosenthal and Jacki Yenkin
inviting everybody to raise
their glasses and drink a
toast, "L'Chaim — to a quality life for our Jewish
brothers and sisters worldwide and our families here in
Columbus."
Miriam Yenkin congratulated Traeger and the entire
Campaign '87 team. She presented him with a distinguished leadership award on
behalf of the Federation officers and board. "You and
your campaign team have
demonstrated a total commitment to the success of the
campaign. You have our
congratulations," said Yenkin. "The spirit of one Jew
taking care of another was
realized in its highest form
today."
In addition to the presentation of the awards to workers
and leadership, highlights
included a musical selection
by concert pianist, Dora
Levenstein, who came to Columbus from the Soviet
Union and was one of 400 resettled by the Jewish Family
Service, beneficiary of the
Campaign.
Marcie Golden described
her experiences in Jesse
Cohen, a neighborhood in Israel that was both physically
and culturally rehabilitated
through Federation funding,',
Traeger, in introducing
Golden, said, "Our partnership with Jesse Cohen, Co
lumbus' Project Renewal
neighborhood in Holon, Israel, south of Tel Aviv, has
meant touching the lives of
9,000 residents—a people-to-
people link.  Our commit
ment to Jesse Cohen has
meant not only the revitali-
zation of the neighborhood
but it has improved the self-
image of the residents," concluded Traeger.
The consensus is that
while the self-proclaimed
Soviet policy of "glasnost".
(openness) gives rise to
hope, much more has to be
done to prove Moscow's good
faith, particularly with respect to Soviet Jewry. Morris Abram, chairman of the
National Conference on
Soviet Jewry observed last
week that "it is imperative
to separate fact from fantasy."
He noted that while the
Soviet Union enacted what it
calls a liberal new emigration decree and Soviet
Foreign Minister Gennady
Gerasimov spoke of a massive acceleration of Jewish
emigration, "only 98 Jews
were granted exit visas in
January, up from. 77 in December, hardly a massive
acceleration."
Reagan Administration
View
The Reagan Administration has taken a similar
view. It urged that the re-
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lease of the 42 prisoners be
followed by the release of all
political prisoners and
POCs, as well as permission
to emigrate to all Soviet
Jews who want to do so.
"As we have consistently
made clear to the Soviet
government, we attach the
greatest importance to improvements in the field of
human rights, including the
right to emigrate," State Department spokesman
Charles Redman said.
"We hope the recant statements by Soviet officials,
that large numbers of Soviet
Jews are being granted exit
permission, will be followed
by steps to allow the departure of all those who wish to
exercise the right to leave,"
Redman said.
He was apparently referring to a statement in Moscow by Samuil Zivs, chairman of the Soviet anti-Zionist Committee, that 500 Jews
were granted exit visas in
January. Fewer than a thousand were allowed to emigrate in/all of 1986;
Redman urged that all
prisoners and POCs in "confinement and exile" be freed
and that they should not be
required to "recant their
past activities or limit future
activities." He stressed that
the U.S. will be keeping a
close watch on Soviet actions
in the human rights area
which "will have a positive
impact on the climate of
U.S.-Soviet relations."
Gap Between Promise And
Performance
Pamela Cohen, president
of the Union of Councils for
Soviet Jews, responded last
week to the unexpected release from labor camp of
POC Roald (Alex) Zelicho-
nok. "We are pleased by the
announcement of Zelicho-
nok's release, but our joy is
tempered with the knowledge that nearly a dozen
other Soviet Jews remain in
prison in labor camps," she
said.
"I call upon the Soviet
leadership to move expeditiously in releasing the remaining Prisoners of Conscience and in processing the
emigration applications of
thousands of Soviet Jews
who wish to leave the
USSR." Cohen stated.
Abram stressed in his
statement the wide gap between Soviet promises and
performance. "Soviet officials are guilty, not only of
massive human rights violations, but of speaking out of
both sides of their mouths,"
he said, " 'glasnost' from
one side, and grievous mis-
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