, March 30, 1962 — 8
lloscow;lets Israel Chief Rabbi's
Appeal to Rescind Ban on. Matzohs
THE DETRO IT JEWIS H NE WS
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Chief.
Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim appealed
to the Soviet government to
cancel the prohibition of baking
matzohs for Passover. In his
appeal Rabbi Nissim said that
the act depriving Soviet Jewry
of matzohs for the holiday was
a violation of their elementary
law right to maintain a tradition
I which dates back thousands of
years.
Matzohs, the appeal declared,
constitute the principal religious
obligation and symbolic expres-
sion of Jews during the Pass-
over holiday. "It would be griev-
ous and painful to prevent Jews
from the right to maintain ob-
servance which so nobly sym-
bolizes man's emergence from
bondage to freedom," the ap-
peal stressed.
RED EMBASSY ANSWERS .
PLEAS WITH SILENCE
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — In-
quiries at the Soviet Embassy
here regarding what action, if
any, was planned by Ambassa-
dor Anatoly Dobrynin in con-
nection with several Congres-
sional appeals to permit Soviet
Jews to secure matzohs for Pass-
over were politely but firmly
turned aside.
A spokesman told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that he
knows "what has been done
with the requests, but I cannot
say." Piessed for some indica-
tion of how the newly named
Soviet envoy has handled the
requests for his assistance in
getting the Soviet Government
to rescind its reported ban on
matzohs for this Passover, the
spokesman said that this was
"an internal Embassy matter
which could never be dis-
cussed."
0 ff i c i a l l y, the spokesman
would say only that the Em-
bassy "has. no information" on
the reports published that Jews
will be unable to purchase or
bake matzohs. He said no such
reports have appeared in the
Soviet press and therefore the
Embassy "has no knowledge of
what is happening. He declined
JNF Plants Orchards
in Negev; Aids in
Drainage Operations
BEERSHEBA—At Be'rotayim,
a Nahal (pioneer settler corps)
outpost near the Sinai border
in the "deep Negev," a 300-400
dunam fruit orchard will be
laid out by the Jewish National
Fund.
The almonds and pistacio
trees planted there will provide
the first economic foundation
for this outpost.
At Eyn Yahav in the Arava
Valley, the Jewish National
Fund will soon begin to plant
a date palm grove on 200 du-
nams of brackish soil.
At two of Israel's outlying
points. on the banks of Hermon
River in the northeast corner
of the State, and at Sedum, on
the Southern shore of the Dead
Sea, the drainage department of
the .JNF is taking active steps to
make new land available for in-
tensive farming.
In the northeast part of the
Hula Valley, the course of the
Hermon River. one of the main
tributaries of the Jordan, is be-
ing deepened and cleared of
stones to prevent the fertile
Hula lands from being inun-
dated by winter flood's.
Near the Dead Sea at Sedom,
work has commenced on the
digging of a drainage canal to
draw off the waters of brackish
springs in the neighborhood.
JNF Begins Planting in Northern Judea
BEN SHEMEN, Israel.—The area of some 100,000 dunams
Jewish National Fund has be- will be reclaimed in this re-
gun land reclamation and forest gion, once the home of the
for the second time in three the Jewish faith are completely planting operations on the bare Maccabeans who renewed the
days to comment on whether free to pursue a religious life." and rocky hills of the Modi'in free Jewish State over 2,000
Mr. Dobrynin has been in touch He told the Soviet leader that region in Northern Judea. An years ago.
with the Kremlin in an effort his sole concern was that ob-
to confirm the reports. servant Jews should have "a
Congressman Leonard Farb- sufficient supply of matzohs for
stein, acting "on humanita- an appropriate and traditional
observance of the Passover fes-
rian grounds as a private citi-
zen," appealed directly to So-
viet Premier Nikita Khru-
Rep. Farbstein, a member of
shchev to allow receipt of the House Foreign Affairs Com-
American-made matzohs. for
mittee, stressed the need for
Soviet Jews this Passover.
an immediate favorable re-
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The Democratic New York sponse so that the matzoh ship-
Congressman, in a cable to the ment would arrive in time for
Soviet Premier, transmitted the start of Passover. He pointed
through the Soviet Embassy out that the offer of help was
here, disclaimed any desire "to motivated only by "the desire to
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engage in a long-range debate enable observant Jews to cling
over whether Soviet citizens of to their religious identity."
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