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Rabbis Report from Russia
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300,000 Jews, only to discover
one synagogue and two aux-
iliary houses of worship. In
Leningrad, a city with an esti-
mated 200,000 Jews, we found
only one synagogue where, for-
merly, there had been sixteen.
For two years we had heard
About the publication of a new
prayer book; yet we found that
it is not yet ready. The few
prayer books in use are torn in
shreds.
"We have heard of the estab-
lishment of a theological semi-
nary for the training of rabbis
and teachers to serve Russia's
estimated 3,000,000 Jews. How-
ever, we saw no evidence of its
being launched. We found no
religious schools for youth—
indeed, officials of the Council
of Cults declared that the ban
on such institutions is still
strictly enforced. We found no
Jewish cultural institutions, no
religious literature of recent
origin, no community organi-
zations, no Yiddish' or Hebrew
press, no national Jewish
bodies, no Jewish social service
institutions, with o u t which
Jewish life cannot long endure.
The brightest ray of hope is
the still vigorous will for Jew-
ish life even among the unsyna-
gogued; the passionate desire
by many parents to instill in
the younger generation a love
for God and loyalty to Jewish
traditions. Under present con-
ditions, however, they have few
of the bare physical means—
such as religious books—and
little possibility for transmit-
ting a Jewish heritage. They
are desperately striving to build
bricks without straw. And this
is the great darRer for the sur-
vival of Judiaism in the Soviet
• Union.
"We did discover that the
fears of Jews were far more
acute a year and a half ago. In
the last year and a half,. their
fears had somewhat diminished.
Many said that had we come
two years ago, they would not
have felt free to talk to us.
Now the atmosphere is more
relaxed and we are hopeful that
this is the beginning of a trend
that will ultimately make for
justice for our co-religionists
and help recreate the instru-
ments for the restoration and
perpetuation of _Jewish life in
a community which for cen-
turies had been the site of a
most creative Judaism. We also
hope that more and more Jew-
ish delegations will, be invited
and will go to the Soviet Union
and that the Soviet Union in
turn will permit the leaders of
its Jewish community to visit
Jewish communities all over
illt1 the world."
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Freiheit Urges. Russian
Denial of Anti-Semitism
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
pro-Soviet Jewish daily news-
paper "Freiheit" published an
editorial today asking why Mos-
cow does not deny reports pub-
lished. in the American press
during the last few days to the
effect that Nikita Khrushchev,
head of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union, has made anti-
Semitic remarks. It also asks
why there has been no denial
from Moscow of a published re-
port that five JeWs were killed
in a pogrom in Kiev, capital of
the Ukraine, last May.
The paper says that an of-
ficial denial issued through the
Soviet news agency Tass, or
through any other Soviet insti-
tution, "would have been of
help." It points out that the
question of anti-Semitism in the
Soviet Union interests not only
the 5,000,oao Jews in the United
States "but also the great Amer-
ican masses, including the Negro
masses, which are sensitive" to
news of racial and religious
persecution. "The strategy of
ignoring anti-Soviet fabrications
possibly needs revision now,"
the Freiheit suggests.
The New York Times,
in a report from Moscow, said
that American rabbis who last
week visited Odessa found only
one synagogue on the outskirts
of the city, instead of the 65
synagogues that functioned
there before. In Kiev, the rabbis
found one synagogue for the
150,000 Jews who reside there,
and in Leningrad there is only
one synagogue for the 200,000
Jews living there. The rabbis
said they found synagogue
buildings converted to other
purposes including, in. one in-
stance, into a church.
Soviet May Invite
Knesset Delegation
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
question of whether Israel
would agree to send a Parlia-
mentary delegation to Moscow
was discussed here by Soviet
Ambassador Alexander Abra-
mov with Israel's Foreign Min-
ister, Mrs. Golda Myerson.
About four months ago, Joseph
Sprinzak, Speaker of the Par-
liament, indicated that he
would accept such an invitation
from the Soviet government.
Ambassador Abramov
broached the question in the
course of his talk with Mrs.
Myerson who invited him to
the Foreign Offic,e to sound out
Moscow's attitude toward the
continued Egyptian blockade of
the Suez Canal.
Mrs. Myerson also discussed
with the Soviet envoy the in-
creasing tension along the Arab
frontiers. It is this tensi on
which is apparently bringing
Mr. Hammarskjold to Jerusa-
lem where he will confer, with
Israeli leaders and later with
Jordan government officials.
While diplomatic talks were
going on between Mrs. Myer-
son and the Soviet Ambassador,
Israelis heard, for the first time,
Hatikvah and Israeli folksongs
played over the Moscow radio.
The Israel national anthem,
which has been taboo in the
Soviet Union as a symbol of the
Zionist movement, was relayed
over the radio from the Moscow
Dynamo Stadium where an Is-
raeli soccer team was playing
the Soviet team.
Meanwhile it was reported
that the Soviet Embassy here
has asked the economic depart-
ment of Israel's Foreign Minis-
try to arrange for the shipping
to the Soviet Union of 1,000
lulavim, ethrogim and hadassim
for use by religious Jews in
Russia next Sukkot. The whole
consignment must reach Russia
at least several weeks before
Sukkot for distribution among
Jews in various parts Of the
country.
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Simon Sobeloff Is
Victor Over South
•
Hon. Simon E. Sobeloff, U. S.
Solicitor General, former Mary-
land Justice, one-time U. S.
District Attorney for Maryland,
has won a decisive victory over
JUDGE SIMON E. SOBELOFF
the group of Southern Senators
who opposed him for the Judge-
ship of the Fourth Circuit Court
of Appeals.
On Monday, the Senate con-
firmed - his nomination for the
judgeship by President Eisen-
hower by a vote of 64 to 19.
A U. S. Circuit Judgeship is
next in rank to the United
States Supreme Court.
Judge Sobeloff is a brother
of Isidore Sobeloff, executive
vice-president of the Jewish
Welfare Federation of Detroit.
Judge Sobeloff was sworn in
Thursday afternoon. The cere-
mony was attended by his im-
mediate family, his mother, of
Baltimore, his brother Isidore
and the latter's son Jon.
* * *
Student Confesses
Cross Burnings
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — A
24-year-old University of Vir-
ginia student confessed to par-
ticipating in the planting and
burning of crosses in front of
the residences Of Supreme
Court Justices Earl Warren,
Felix Frankfurter, Sen. Herbert
H. Lehman, Solicitor General
Simon E. Sobeloff and an of-
ficial of the National Associa-
tion or the Advancement of
Colored People.
The student, Ronald E.
Rowley, who refused to name
his accomplices, admitted plant-.
ing the crosses to express indig-
nation of the Supreme Court's
deciSion ordering the desegre-
gation of public schools in the
south.
Signs left beside the burning
crosses indicated this sentiment,
but one left before Mr. Sobel-
off's home read "Sobeloff . . .
Jew"—the remainder of the
sign was burned.
Rowley forfeited $20 in bonds
rather than stand trial for mis-
demeanors — the "kindling of
bonfires." He was
.traced
through the license plates on his
car. The FBI was called into the
case by Attorney General Her-
bert Brownell, who reported to
the President on his disposition
of the matter.
Presidential press secretary
James Hagerty said that the
President approved the decision
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