Ruth Aleksandrovich Averbuch, newly wed and in Israel barely a month, will go to the US next week to rally support for Soviet Jews. She will be accompanied by her husband, Isaiah Averbuch. The couple will be the guests of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and will appear at a Madison Square Garden rally Dec. 13 sponsored by the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry to mark the first anniversary of the Leningrad hijack trial. Mrs. Rivka Aleksandrovich, mother of the 24-year-old nurse, will accompany the couple and will appear in the US on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal.
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