(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
tO The Jewish News)
NEW YORK. The World Con-
ference of Jewish Organizations,
representing leading Jewish or-
ganizations of five continents,
criticized the Soviet Union Wed-
nesday for not allowing . Jews
the "same rights and facilities
granted to other religious and
national groups."
It expressed the hope that
the "recent implied condemna-
tion of anti-Semitism by Pre-
mier Khrushchev" in his letter
to Lord Russell will "exercise
a restraining influence" on
those responsible for the clos-
ing of synagogues and other
prejudicial acts against the
Jews. The resolution was passed
unanimously.
The COJO representatives
also expressed concern over
"the anti-Semitism manifesta-
tions and activities which
have occurred in certain Latin
American countries." The res-
olution, also passed unan-
imously, said "these events
cause particular concern as
there is evidence that the
local anti-Semitic groups and
parties are stimulated and in-
spired by external forces
linked together through in-
ternational networks aimed
at the destruction of the very
foundations of the Democratic
way of life."
The conference called upon
governments, the United Na-
tions and • other international
institutions "to promote polit-
ical, legislative and other meas-
ures to counteract this danger
to democracy and fundamental
human rights."
The resolution on Soviet Jew-
ry voiced the "distress" of
COJO because the Jewish cit-
izens of the USSR are denied
the rights granted to other re-
ligious and national groups. It
went on: "
"We are particularly con-
cerned that facilities are de-
nied to Soviet Jewry to estab-
lish organizations both to un-
ite Jewish congregations for
common religious purposes
and to further develon Jew-
ish cultural activity. We are
equally concerned that facil-
ities granted to other groups
to maintain contact with and
participate in the activities of
international bodies are not
available to Soviet Jewry.
The reference to Premier
Khrushchev expressed the hope
that the letter to Russell "and
its publication in the Soviet
press" will exercise a restrain-
ing influence on "the manifesta-
tions of national prejudice and
religious and cultural intoler-
ance, and on the publicity cal-
culated to make it appear that
Jews are primarily responsible
for economic offenses."
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WASHINGTON — The State
Department came under fire in
the senate Tuesday on charges
by Senator Thomas J. Dodd,
Connecticut Democrat, that the
Department had inadequately
responded to Soviet anti-Semi-
tism.
Reviewing increased evidence
of anti-Jewish tendencies in the
Soviet Unicin, - Dodd said the
facts clearly revealed "Prime
Minister Khrushchev, himself as
the chief condoner, if not the
chief instigator, of the persecu-
tion of the Soviet Jews."
Dodd referred to recent de-
velopments' in Russia in com-
menting on an exchange he had
with the State Department last
summer on the Soviet Jewish
question. In reply to the sen-
ator's recommendation for in-
creased United States diplo-
matic activity on behalf of So-
viet Jewry, Assistant Secretary
of State Frederick G. Dutton
wrote that it was "not possible
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The resolution said that "the Union of equal treatment of
that more cars are sold for less at
restrictions which inhibit and all minorities, but also under
PAUL NEWMAN'S
undermine efforts of Soviet international instruments, in-
Jews to maintain and develop cluding the United Nations'
their religious and cultural ac- Universal Declaration of Hu-
tivity, among them, by the way man Rights, subscribed to by
of example, may be mentioned the Soviet Union." .
the difficulties of obtaining mat-
COJO also appealed to the
zot for Passover, continues to Soviet Union to facilitate the
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distinctive Jewish life.
migration. The resolution stated
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"Jewish communities every- that the appeal to the USSR "is
where, in common with all not related to any political or
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who support human right; will international conflict" but is
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continue by every appropriate based upon "a conception of
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means to urge on the Soviet human right which transcends
authorities the restoration of all ideological differences and
WE AT THE DODGE REGIONAL OFFICE WANT TO CONGRATULATE YOU
rights and facilities to Soviet international conflicts."
ON THE FINE JOB YOU ARE DOING SINCE OPENING YOUR DODGE
Jewry to which it is entitled,
The conference has scheduled
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not only under. the pro- two meetings for the coming 12
claimed policy of the Soviet months, one in summer. and the
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other next January, both to be
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held in New York. They will be
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called to consider a draft pro-
posal which the Executive
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Council of Australian Jewry has
undertaken to write. This is in-
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tended to strengthen COJO's or-
ganizations with the right to
NEW YORK, (JTA) — There abstain. This will be debated
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is still one synagogue open in fully by the organizations con-
Chernovtsy, an Ukrainian city cerned befort the forthcoming
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with a population of between meetings and then acted upon
40,000 and 50,000 Jews, but at the COJO conferences.
ginaw
Communists are making a
Dr. Nahum Goldmann was re-
PONTIAC,MICHIGAN
strong effort to close down that elected chairman of COJO; Ye-
last remaining Jewish house of eral; Label Katz, the president
DODGE - DART
worship through inflammatory huda Hellman, secretary gen-
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propaganda, according to an of Bnai Brith, co-chairman; and
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President
authoritative report from the Sir Barnett Janner, president
Soviet Union received here by of the Board. of Deputies of
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the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. British Jews, vice-chairman.
Chernovtsy used to be known
as Czernovitz when it was the
capital of Bukhovina in prewar
Rumania.
The facts in the case had
been inadvertently confused in
press reports earlier this week,
due to deliberate obfuscation by
The day on the slopes was great.
the zealous propaganda efforts
of " Voyovnichy Ateist" (Mili-
tant Atheist), the Kiev month-
A wonde-rftifnight of dining and entertainment
ly of the Ukrainian Institute
for Dissemination of Scientific
Knowledge of Atheism. The
:lies ahead. But right now there is time
January issue of the atheist
organ had indicated that the
to relax with friends in the company of
last Chernovtsy synagogue had
been closed down in response
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to "demands" by 3,000 atheists,
Seagram's V. 0., expressly made for the
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and "Jewish believers."
Actually, the authorities in
Chernovtsy have not yet taken
finest hours of life! Its bright color and
action to close the synagogue.
The city's "Great Synagogue"
was shut down in 1959. A sec-
clarity, its rare flavor and aroma are
ond Jewish house of worship,
on Russky Street, was closed
down in 1961 and turned into
cherished by mayvinim all over the
an elementary school.
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Expert observers here pointed
out that the misreporting by
world — the unmistakable excellence of
"Voyovnichy Ateist" may be a
prelude to the shut-down of
Chernovtsy's last synagogue_
Canadian whisky at its finest.
The same tactic • was employed
by the Communists prior to the
shut-down, last November, of
the last synagogue at Lwow,
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to deterinine whether Soviet
Jews are deliberately singled
out as Jews for a disproportion-
ate amount of condemnation
and victimization."
Dodd "found it difficult to
understand Mr. Dutton's uncer-
tainty because it seemed to me
at the time that there was over-
whelming evidence that the So-
viet Jews were, in fact, the vic-
tims of special persecutiOn."
The senator recalled that as
far back as 1954 a congression-
al select committee to investi-
gate Communist aggression con-
cluded "that the official and
deliberate policy of Commu-
nism was aimed directly at
forced assimilation of the Jews
as the preferred technique for
exterminating the Jews as a
people."
He said: "Continuing Soviet
IMPORTED CANADIAN WHISKY AT-ITS FINEST!
racism reveals not only to the
world but also to the Soviet
people that Communist deeds
do not match Communist IMPORTED IN THE BOTTLE FROM CANADA, SEAGRAM'S V. 0. CANADIAN WHISKY—A BLEND OF
words."
SELECTED WHISKIES, SIX YEARS OLD • 86.8 PROOF • SEAGRAM DISTILLERS COMPANY, N. Y. C.
7 - THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, March 8, 1963
Jewish Leaders of Continents Express
Mope tn K's Statement on Anti-Semitism