A Jewish couple in Kiev began today a three-day hunger strike to protest attempts to deprive the wife of custody of her ten-year-old daughter by a previous marriage. The couple, Mr. and Mrs. Simon Bernstein, claim the legal proceedings started by Mrs. Bernstein’s former husband, were instigated by Soviet authorities after the Bernsteins applied for visas to go to Israel, Jewish sources in the Soviet Union reported today.
Meanwhile, the British Dental Association has written to the Soviet Ambassador and the secretary of the Soviet Medical Scientific Society in Moscow to protest against the continued imprisonment of Boris Azernikov, a Jewish dentist. The letter was signed by Alastair Mackie, secretary of the Dental Association. Azernikov had applied for a visa to go to Israel.
Gen. Uzzi Narkiss, director general of the Immigration and Absorption Department of the Jewish Agency in Israel, is in the US for a three-week visit to discuss immigration and absorption problems for Americans in Israel. He will meet with leaders of American Jewry and with emissaries to the Israel Aliyah Center in N.Y.
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