Sharett Sharply Attacks Russia
Seek Appeal of Conviction of Rabbi as Slaver
at Socialist International Congress NEW HAVEN, Conn. (JTA)— ents in the New Haven area, printed many letters from for-

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AMSTERDAM — Soviet Rus-
sia was sharply attacked Tuesday
by Moshe Sharett, chairman of
the Jewish Agency Executive,
in an address delivered at the
World Congress of the Socialist
International which opened here
Monday.
Sharett, who heads the Israeli
delegation to the Congress, said
he felt a "particular obligation"
to record his feelings about the
Soviet part in the achieving of
the test ban "in view of the long
list of grievances of the Jewish
peOple against the USSR."
Enumerating the "inequities
and injustices of totalitarian
Communism toward the Jews and
other minorities," he stressed
before the world's leading social-
ists the denial of rights of So-
viet Jews, "the denial of self-
expression, the absence of any
Jewish cultural life, the suppres-
sion of Jewish education, the
denial of facilities for Jewish
children to learn the Hebrew
alphabet which renders religious
freedom a farce."

He pointed out that the
Bible is not available in He-
brew in the Soviet Union.
He accused the USSR of "de-
liberately exaggerating the
percentage of Jews among ec-
onomic offenders," referring
to "the sinister effects of such
official publicity on the minds
of the Russian public which is
still subject to dark anti-Sem-
itic prejudice." He noted that

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Russian Jews are not per-
mitted to emigrate to Israel,
"except in exceptional cases,"
even for purposes of reunifi-
cation with their families.

A committee organized in New
Haven to seek an appeal of the
conviction of Rabbi David
Shackney on charges of holding
a Mexican family in involuntary
servitude has raised more than
a third of the funds needed for
the appeal, the chairman of the
committee told the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency this week.
Sherman Jacobson, a real
estate investment broker of
Orange, Conn., said that about
$8,500 of the required $20,000
fund had been raised. He said,
in a telephone interview, that he
believed that attorneys for Rabbi
Shackney were in the process of
filing with the Federal Circuit
Court in New York.
Rabbi Shackney was convicted
in New Haven federal court last
spring and sentenced to six
years in prison. The judge sus-
pended all but two months of
the term and imposed a fine of
$2,000. Rabbi Shackney put up
his dairy farm in Middlefield,
Conn., to provide bail and is
now free pending the appeal.

Sharett said he wondered
whether the relaxation of East-
West tensions consequent upon
the partial ban of nuclear test-
ing "would render the Soviet
attitude toward Jews more hu-
mane and civilized. The Soviet
Union," he said, was "a champ-
ion of indivisible peace but when
it could be promoted in a cer-
tain region they are particularly
guilty because the security of
certain countries is exposed by
the Soviet supply of arms to
states openly committed to the
renewal of war there and to the
distruction of Israel."
He criticized the Soviet Union
sharply for the veto it cast last
week in the United Nations
Security Council on the Anglo-
American resolution condemn-
ing Syria by implication. He
charged the USSR with "respon-
sibility for paralyzing the . Secur-
T h e conviction attracted
ity Council by rallying to Syria's
defense after Syria had mur- little attention in the Jewish
dered two Israeli settlers who community until Joseph Weis-
incidently," he said, "were berg, publisher of the Jewish
socialist youths." By that veto, Advocate of Boston, learned
he said, the USSR "was encourag- about the case and investi-
ing Syria to renew firing across gated its background. He in-
terviewed Rabbi Shackney's
the Israeli border."
In conclusion, Sharett ex- son, a student at Harvard Uni-
pressed confidence that peace versity and published the in-
would eventually come to the terview in its entirety in the
Middle East. That, he said, Boston Jewish weekly. The
would result from two processes: son raised a number of points
(1.) Through the awakening of in the case which moved Weis-
social conscience in the Arab berg to appeal repeatedly in
lands bringing about concentra- the weekly for aid for the
tion on the welfare of the com- rabbi.
mon man, and the realization of
As a result, a Shackney De-
cooperation among the states, fense Committee was organized.
including Israel, and (2.) The Jacobson, who Lecame interested
firm adherence to the principle in the case because his daughter
of direct negotiations for the
been a pupil of Rabbi
solution of all pending issues. had
Shackney at Bnai Jacob Syna-
in New Haven and be-
If you count ponds, Michigan gogue
cause
he
himself had been a
has more than 50,000 lakes.
student in one of the rabbi's
adult education classes at the
synagogue, agreed to serve as
chairman.
Jacobson said funds were
coming from two sources. One
is former pupils of Rabbi Shack-
Has A Large
ney, who also taught for several
years at the Flatbush Yeshiva
Selection of
in Brooklyn. Having learned of
the case from various sources,
principally the repeated appeals
in the Jewish Advocate, they
have sent funds to the defense
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committee and are continuing
to do so, he said.

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by the defense committee,
Jacobson said. The letter in-
cludes the text of a statement
issued by nine New Haven
rabbis at the time of forma-
tion of the defense committee.
The rabbis declared, in the
statement, that they believed
that the evidence presented
during the trial in the rabbis
defense was "in such sharp
contradiction to the allega-
tions and evidence adduced by
the prosecution, that we
earnestly look forward to his
appeal to a higher court."

Jacobson said that the com-
mittee had sent out about 2,000
letters, asking for contributions
to the defense fund. He said
that contributions had been re-
ceived from former pupils from
at least a dozen states.
The Jewish Advocate has

mer rabbinical and teaching
associates of Rabbi Shackney,
and from former pupils, all testi-
fying to his character and indi-
cating a sense of shock over the
indictment and conviction.

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