Lt. Col. Eli Schwartz, executive director of the Jewish National Fund, and Dr. Bernard Dishler and Jules Lippert, co-chairmen of the Soviet Jewry Council of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), have announced a new joint project, a tree planting program in Israel for Soviet Jewish refusnik families and Prisoners of Conscience. The threes will be planted in Abu Tor, the Peace Forest in Jerusalem. Individuals wishing to plant trees should call the JCRC Soviet Jewry Council, (215) 545-8430, for the name and address of a refusnik family or POC in the USSR.
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