Marina Tiemkin the 13-year-old daughter of the Soviet Jewish activist, Aleksandr Tiemkin, who was abducted from her Moscow home last week is still missing, it was reported today by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. It is feared that she is in a “closed institution.” The Municipal Court of Moscow, the NCSJ said, has postponed the father’s appeal and has deprived him of his paternal rights. Aleksandr Tiemkin has appealed to the Red Cross and to Nikolai V. Podgorny to release his daughter. The NCSJ added that he has also appealed to all Jews to help him return Marina. His friends in Moscow have issued a similar appeal.
Rabbi A.H. Lapin, Chief Minister of the Cape Town Hebrew Congregation, criticized the system of migratory labor for Black workers in South Africa as out of keeping with the importance which Judaism attaches to the preservation of family life. In a sermon in the Great Synagogue here he said that migratory labor led to a breakdown of family life and suggested that the government, industry and commerce devise alternatives to the migratory labor system.
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