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spokesman from the West and
Moscow authorities. "W or 1 d
Jewry," he said, "is ready and
eager to assist the Soviet gov-
ernment by explanation, dis-
cussion and removal of misun-
derstandings toward finding a
solution which will be to the ad-
vantage of the USSR no less
than to the 3,000,000 Jewish
citizens in the USSR."
On another topic. Dr. Ger-
hart M. Riegner, of Geneva, di-
rector of coordination for the
World Jewish Congress, told the
meeting that. if the next session
of the Ecumenical Council, at
the Vatican. fails to adopt a pro-
posed statement on improve-
ment of Catholic-Jewish rela-
tion, such a failure "will create
deep and wide disappointment
among Jews" and among other
peoples around the world."
Jacob Halevy, chairman of
the section, told the conference
that the WJC must still con-
tinue to fight anti-Semitism
which, he stated, "is still alive."
Among such manifestations, he
said. is a textbook for school
children recently circulated in
schools in Spain which "poisons
children's minds with anti-Se-
mitic propaganda." The text-
book, he reported, contains
stories against the Jews.
In an apparent attempt to
justify the death sentences
handed down in recent trials
against Jews charged with "eco-
nomic crimes," the S o v i et
Union's Novosti press agency
published letters from Soviet
Jews supporting the harsh ver-
dict of the Moscow court last
week and referring to the Jews
involved as "scum' and "riff-
raff," it was reported here from
Moscow.
The Novosti report, which was
circulated among foreign news-
men in Moscow but was not pub-
lished locally, cited statements
by one Igor Sirkovich, said to
be a Jewish schoolteacher in
Moldavia and one 0. Revutsky,
who was identified only as
as a Jew living in Zagorsk near
Moscow.
A Soviet Lithuanian newspa-
per highlighted Judaism in an
exhortation to atheists to ac-
celerate their fight on all re-
ligions in the Soviet Union, an-
other r e p or t from Moscow
stated.
"At the present moment Ju-
daism is carrying on a persist-
ent struggle for the separation
of the Jewish population from
the workers of other national-
ities, is trying to make the Jew-
ish youth believe that their
motherland is not here, that
Jews are in a special position."
the Lithuanian Soviet organ as-
serted.
It advised atheists to remem-
ber that their main t a r g
should be the dominant Cath-
olic church in the area but that
Orthodoxy and Judaism should
not be forgotten in the battle
for the minds of the young. It
stressed that much progress had
been made in the direction of
atheisin in Lithuania but that
"our otheists are absolutely in-
sufficiently exposing reac-
tionary efforts of Judaism."
20 N. Y. Congressmen
Condemn Discrimination
in USSR Against Jews
WASHINGTON, (JTA)-
Twenty • New York Democratic
members of Congress adopted
a resolution condemning dis-
crimination by the Soviet Union
against Jews in USSR. The res-
olution, introduced by Demo-
cratic Congressman John J.
Rooney, also urged favorable re-
porting to the House on it by
the Committee on Foreign
Affairs.
In an extension of remarks
appearing in the Congressional
Record, representative Seymour
Halpern, Republican of New
York, once again asked Con-
gress to take note of "the subtle,
yet monstrous, discrimination
against the Jewish people - in
the Soviet Union."
A call for the U.S. Govern-
' ment to take the lead in ex-
posing Russia's campaign of
anti-Semitism to "world con-
demnation" was made by Sen.
Kenneth B. Keating in New
I York, in a speech before 1,000
Building for Baking of Matzoth
OK'd in Moscow, Report Confirms
LONDON (JTA)—A spokes-
man for Moscow's Central Syna-
gogue confirmed in the Soviet
capital that the city's Jewish
community has been permitted
to rent a special suburb an
building for use as a matzoh
bakery this year. according to a
dispatch from Moscow.
The statement by the syna-
gogal representative confirmed
a previous report by Novosti, an
official USSR news agency,
which had announced earlier
that Moscow Jews would be per-
mitted to bake matzoh this year.
The Moscow dispatch quot-
ed Novosti as also announcing
that Jews in Kiev have al-
ready been provided with
matzoh for this year's Pass-
over. Kiev has the third larg-
est Jewish population among
cities in the USSR, with Mos-
cow having most Jewish resi-
dents and Leningrad next.
(In Jerusalem, Dr. Israel
Goldstein said he had received
a cable from Moscow, informing
him that a celebration would
be held at the Great Synagogue
in Moscow honoring Rabbi Ye-
huda Leib Levin on his 70th
birthday. The cable, signed
"Community Executive," de-
clared: "We want your greet-
ing and wish for an enhance-
ment of Torah and peace." Dr.
Goldstein said he had cabled
a message in reply.)
Jewish Population Static
in Omaha; Totals 6,951
OMOHA, Neb. (JTA) — The
Jewish population of this city
(total population 301,958 as of
1960) has been fairly static in
the last six years, numbering
6,951 as of the end of 1963, ac-
cording to the annual popula-
tion census conducted by the
Jewish Federation of Omaha.
The statistics showed that the
number of Jews here has hover-
ed close to the 7,000 mark since
1956, totaling 6,791 in that year,
going up to 7,025 and 7,045 in
1960 and 1961, then declining
slightly to 6,969 in 1962 and
6,951 as of Dec. 31, 1963.
at the annual Purim Festival of "I am not sufficiently ac- several years ago, stating they
the Council of the Religious quainted with capital punish- would settle in the Soviet Union
permanently. All have, since,
Zionists of America. He criti- ment, so I cannot answer."
sought to return to this country.
cized the Senate Foreign Rela- Many Brazilian Jews
Many of the disillusioned ex-
tions Committee for not hold- Leave Soviet Union;
patriates are Jewish.
ing hearings on a resolution Repatriated to Brazil
condemning the Soviet drive
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RIO DE JANEIRO. (JTA)—A
against those of Jewish faith.
total of 231 Brizilians, including
Soviet Union Rabbis
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many Jews, have been repatri-
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ated to this country from the
In Moscow, Kiev, Odessa
Soviet Union, official figures
UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T
LONDON, (JTA)—There will disclosed. However, it was indi-
FIND A FINER WINE THAN
not be enough matzoth for Jews cated that 800 Brazilians seeking
needing the unleavened bread repatriation are still in the
for Passover this year in the four Soviet Union.
More than 1,000 Brazilians
leading Jewish centers of the
USSR — Moscow, Leningrad, gave up their Brazilian citizen- .
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Moscow Chief Rabbi Yehuda
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in the Central Synagogue of the
Soviet capital that, although
permission was received this
Urgently appeals to the Jewish community in
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quarters in a' Moscow suburb,
employed and all indigent cases known to all public
the permission came too late
and private relief giving organizations.
since the location needs "con-
siderable repairs" before it can
Our people depend upon us for the basic neces-
be used as a matzoth bakery."
sities with which to observe the traditional Passover
Rabbi George Joseph Lieb,
and we depend upon you to make this possible . . .
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the the problem surrounding
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The Moscow report said that
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Cushing Urges Interfaith
Protest Against Moscow •
his service to his many regular and B'nai B'rith major
JERSEY CITY, N.J., (JTA)-
Richard Cardinal Cushing, Arch-
medical policyowners.
bishop of Boston, proposed here
the formation of an interfaith,
organization in the United
States to "protest and publicize"
the persecution of Jews and
other religious groups in the
Soviet Union.
1963
U Thant Evades Stand on
Death Sentences in Moscow
MAN OF THE YEAR
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.,
(JTA)—United Nations Secre-
For the
tary-General U Thant evaded
comment on the death sen-
tences imposed in the Soviet
Union upon Jews and others
charged with "economic crimes."
He was asked at a luncheon
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Russian Anti Jewish Manifestations Stir Worldwide Protests