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propaganda in reports in the
Soviet press.
The seven-point appeal — a
copy of which was transmitted
to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly
Dobrynin in Washington —
called for immediate action by
the Soviet government on the
following specific proposals:
1. Jewish education in all
its forms should be permitted.
2. Jewish cultural institu-
tions should be reopened and
Jewish artistic life — litera-
ture, theater, music, in Yid-
dish and Hebrew—should be
allowed to develop fully.
3. Central institutions to
serve the religious needs of
Soviet Jewry should be es-
tablished; the closing of syna-
gogues and private prayer
meetings should be halted,
and obstacles to the perform-
ance of sacred rites should
be removed.
4. F o r in a I religious and
Cultural bonds with Jewish
communities abroad should
be allowed, official exchange
visits permitted and the right
to make religious pilgrimages
to the Holy Land granted.
5. Permission for Jews to
leave the USSR, so that they
may be reunited with fami-
lies in other lands from
whom they have been separ-
ated, should be implemented.
6. The anti-Jewish charac•
ter that so strongly colors
the official campaign against
economic crimes should be
eliminated.
'7. A vigorous educational
campaign against anti-Semi-
tism should be undertaken.
"We appeal," the conference
resolution stated, "to all those
in the USSR who genuinely
desire the eradication of the
evils of Stalinism and who,
with us, thirst for truth, justice
and decency. We appeal to the
Soviet authorities to act in this
matter on the basis of their
own ideological, constitutional
and legal commitments. We
issue this appeal in all solem-
nity, as a matter of urgency
and elementary decency. We
cannot keep silent so long as
justice is not done on this
problem."
Associate Justice Douglas of
the U.S. Supreme Court—one
of the co-sponsors of the con-
ference—told the gathering that
anti-Jewish persecutions mani-
fest themselves in the USSR in
many ways, including discrimi-
nation against the use of Jew-
ish personnel "in public serv-
ice." The Supreme Court Jus-
tice cited the absence of Jews
in the Soviet Navy. "Despite
the constitutional facade" of
Soviet laws forbidding discrimi-
nations, he said, Jews are kept
out of certain positions "due
to the fear that Jews might
come into contact with Jewish
communities outside the Soviet
Union."
"But probably the place to
start," he declared, "is with
the religious community. A uni-
versal effort must be made to
have the synagogue restored
and to have the Russian Jews
enjoy the freedom of using
their religious symbols. We
must insist on the restoration
of the synagogues, hope that
that would be a beginning, and
hope that other tangible re-
sults would follow toward the
solution of the Jewish problem
in the USSR."
Prof. Lewis Feuer of the
University of California, who
recently returned from an ex-
tended stay in the Soviet Union,
reported at the conference:
"The Jewish people are allowed
to exist. It is their culture
which is being extirpated. The
Soviet's 'assimilation' of the
Jewish community is planned
from above, directed from
above and enforced through
sanctions and the making un-
available of books and teachers.
This is culturocide—the mur-
der of a culture—and inherent-
ly destructive of human free-
dom."
Other speakers included Prof.
Horace M. Kallen; Arthur
Miller, playwright and author;
Max Hayward, Oxford fellow
and translator of "Dr. Zhivago";
Maurice Hindus, author of
"House Without a Roof," a
study of life in the Soviet
Union; Dr. Meyer Schapiro,
professor of art history at Co-
lumbia University; and Dr.
Moshe Decter, director of Jew-
ish Minorities Research.
In addition to Bishop Pike
and Justice Douglas the spon-
sors of the conference included
the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., a leader of the
Negro integration movement;
Walter Reuther, vice-president
of the AFL-CIO and president
of the United Auto Workers;
Norman Thomas, veteran So-
cialist leader; former U.S.
Senator Herbert H. Lehman;
and Robert Penn Warren, fam-
ous American novelist and poet.
Kennedy Urged to Use
Sale of Wheat to Russia
for Talks on Matzoth
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — An
appeal was addressed to Presi-
dent Kennedy asking him to
negotiate with the Soviet Union
an agreement under which the
Moscow authorities would per-
mit Jewish citizens of the USSR
"to obtain flour, bake, purchase,
or sell matzoth during the
annual Passover holidays."
The appeal was made in a
letter to the President from
Rep. Leonard Farbstein, New
York Democrat, in the context
of the Administration's decision
to permit the sale of vast quan-
tities of American wheat to the
Soviet Union.
"I believe," Congressman
Farbstein wrote, "it would be
singularly appropriate at this
time, in view of the wheat
sale," that the Soviet govern-
ment permit such arrangements
to be made regarding matzoth.
"As you know," the letter
stated, "the Soviet Union has
banned the sale of matzoth on
the grounds that this represents
speculation. However, the ordi-
nary Jewish citizen has no
means of procuring ritual flour
or baking matzoth. Only a
large processor can do this."
(In Chicago, national presi-
dent Label Katz of Bnai Brith
told a press conference here
that he supports the sale of
wheat by the United States to
the Soviet Union on a basis of
both economic and humanitar-
ian considerations, but hopes
the sale would create a new
climate in which world public
opinion might be more effec-
tive in bringing about an alle-
viation of the plight of Soviet
Jewry. He recalled that Bnai
Brith had offered to ship mat-
zoth to Russian Jews but that
the Soviet government had re-
jected the proposal.)
$1,000,000 High School
Building Dedicated on
Campus of Hebrew U.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Dedi-
cation ceremonies and first
classes were held here at the
new Hebrew University High
School, a $1,000,000 structure
on the H e b r e w University
Campus. The National Council of
Jewish Women of the United
States contributed more than
half of the funds for the con-
struction of this latest addition
to Israel's educational system.
Until now, classes of this high
school had been scattered in bor-
rowed quarters in various sec-
tions of Jerusalem.
Mrs. Joseph Willen, of New
York, president of the NCJW,
sent a special message read at
the dedication ceremonies, de-
claring that the high school,
"even working in insufficient
quarters," had become "a shin-
ing beacon for all Israeli educa-
tion, and indeed for much of the
Near East and Africa."
Jews Invited to Moscow
Congress on Ethnography
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
LONDON—A number of Is-
raeli scholars have been invited
to participate in the forth-
coming Congress of Ethnog-
raphy and History to be held
in Moscow, dispatches from the
Soviet capital reported here
Tuesday. One of the Israelis
who has been scheduled to
lecture before the Congress is
Dr. Zvi Harkavi, head librarian
of the Grand Rabbinate head-
quarters in Jerusalem, a noted
scholar in his own right. The
Moscow report made it clear
that he has been given free-
dom to choose his own sub-
jects for his address to the
Congress.
our concern repeatedly ex-
pressed to the Soviet Ambassa-
dor here" about the plight of
Soviet Jewry. The Soviet Am-
bassador had rejected all ap-
peals sent him over the plight
of Soviet Jewry.
* * *
WC Accuses USSR
The Soviet Union was charged
with directing a policy of "cul-
tural genocide" against its Jew-
ish people.
The national board of Work-
men's Circle, meeting at Astor
Hotel, New York, said that the
Soviet Union "is not only
persecuting individual Jews but
seeking to wipe out all vestiges
of Jewishness."
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