7,000 Collegians on East Coast
Protest Russian Anti-Semitism
BOSTON (JTA) — Some 7,000
students and faculty at Boston
area colleges have signed petitions
to the Soviet government protest-
ing the denial of cultural and
religious rights to Soviet Jews.
Seven Harvard University deans
are among signers urging that
the USSR put an end to "the
inequitable and discriminatory
manner in which Soviet law is
administered with respect to
Soviet Jewry."
The petitions were initiated by
student members of the Bnai Brith
Hillel Foundations at five of the
colleges, but Rabbi Maurice L.
Zigmond, New England
regional director, said that the
campaign has become interdenomi-
national with students from other
campus religious groups volunteer-
ing to collect signatures.
A booth set up in the cor-
ridor of a Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology building and
manned by officers of MIT's
United Christian Fellowship,
Technology Catholic Club and
Hillel Foundation, brought in
most of the 1,000 names that
were s i g n e d at that school.
Copies of the petitions are also
being circulated in classrooms
Legal Experts Join
Movement to Stop
Bible Amendment ;
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One head count of the 35-mem-
ber judiciary committee, which is
not likely to get down to actual
voting on the prayer issue until
Late this month, showed 16 mem-
bers opposed to any constitutional
amendment. The same poll showed
three more members either ready
to vote against amendments or to
"take a walk." In either case, if
the findings are accurate, no
amendment could be approved.
Sponsors of the major proposal
before the judiciary committee
are reported to be trying to draft
a new version that would be
much less sweeping.
The present version would per-
mit prayers and Bible reading dur-
ing regular classroom sessions
under sponsorship of the teacher.
It is understood some of its
backers would now like to limit
such devotional exercises to hours
outside the regular curriculum,
with no official sponsorship.
Meanwhile t h e American
Jewish Committee has urged
Congress to reject all pending
proposals.
In testimony made public here
and submitted to the _judiciary
committee, Morris B. Abram, presi-
dent of the American Jewish Com-
mittee, warned against the schools
becoming a source of "religious
I conflict, competition, bitterness
and hostility" which would result
from "any attempt to use the pub-
lic schools to encourage religious
literacy or commitment."
On the principle of separation of
church and state, the Committees
statement strongly opposed such
measures as the Becker Amend-
ment which "would weaken re-
ligious freedom" and serve as a
threat to "essential liberties."
(In Los Angeles, James Francis
Cardinal McIntyre, archbishop of
Los Angeles, asserted that the
Supreme Court had misinterpreted
the meaning of the church - state
separation principle in its ban on
prayers. He told a St. Marys Col-
lege audience in Los Angeles, that
the court had "found refuge in
atheistic concepts" in its school
prayer decisions.)
(In Grand Rapids, a group of
parents has filed a federal court
suit against the suburban Jenison
school board, protesting prayer,
Bible reading and other religious
oriented activities in the schools.
The school board has 20 days to
reply to the suit requesting the
board to show cause why it should
not be enjoined from allowing the
religious activities.)
and fraternities at colleges in
the Boston area.
At Harvard and Radcliffe, 2.500
persons—almost half of the un-
dergraduate population —
have joined in the statement de-
claring that "considerations of
humanity and justice required the
Soviet government to end the
manifest anti-Semitism and the
denial to Soviet Jews of the basic
institutions and facilities granted
other religious and nationality
groups within the Soviet Union."
Three thousand other signatures
have been collected at Boston
University and at Brandeis Uni-
versity in nearby Waltham.
The petitions, identical in their
wording at each of the schools,
asks the Soviet government to:
1. Implement its stated policy of
eliminating anti-Semitism in all
areas of public life; 2. Make cer-
tain that the prosecuting of eco-
nomic crimes does not become
"a vehicle for anti-Semitism";
3. Halt anti-Jewish stereotyping
and propaganda campaigns.
In urging the restoration of
Jewish religious and nationality
rights, the petitions specifically
call for removing obstacles to the
existence of synagogues, includ-
ing their right to maintain a na-
tionwide federation; to the pro-
duction of prayer books and ritual
articles; to the development of
cultural institutions, the training
of rabbis and the study of Yiddish,
Hebrew and Jewish history and
literature; to the publication of
Yiddish books and newspapers;
and to formal contacts with Jew-
ish religious and cultural move-
ments abroad.
The students also distributed
fact sheets detailing the discrimi-
nations imposed against Soviet
Jews.
In New York, a hunger fast by
New York City college students
begun this week near the Soviet
mission here as a protest against
Soviet anti-Semitism.
Three students fasted at the
site Tuesday and were replaced
by three other students Wednes-
day. The "relay" fast protest will
continue through Saturday.
Meanwhile, it was reported
from Moscow that the Soviet
Union's KGB, the Soviet security
branch, had ousted the three-man
governing body of Moscow's cen-
tral Synagogue, naming as re-
placements three men listed only
as Fishlovich, Michalovich and
Olitsky. The KBG'S functions in-
clude counteresponage spy re-
cruiting and functions like those
of the FBI in the United States.
It was also reported that a Mos-
cow court rejected the appeal of
Arkady Grinberg, 67, for com-
mutation of a death sentence im-
posed last March on charges of
being mastermind of a 21-member
fraud ring.
Arab Smugglers Unknowingly Assist Science in Israel
A curious story about Arab
smugglers unwittingly aiding the
cause of science in Israel is report-
ed from Rehovoth by the Weiz-
mann Institute of Science.
It seems that despite stringent
Israeli laws and police vigilance,
camel caravans carrying hashish
now and then try for a shortcut by
way of the Negev desert between
Egypt and Jordan. These attempts
to sneak through Israeli territory
are frequently frustrated by the
Israeli police. When the caravans
are caught the police seize the con-
traband narcotic and turn it over
to the Weizmann Institute where it
serves to replenish the supply of
hashish used by the Institute for
one of its research projects in the
Organic Chemistry Department.
Drs. Raphael Mechoulam and
Lamport Award Set Up
for Hebrew Achievement
An incentive award for students
of modern Hebrew in the public
high schools throughout the coun-
try has been set up by the National
Hebrew Culture Council.
The award, which will be pre-
sented annually to the outstanding
student of Hebrew in every pub-
lic high school in the United
States where Hebrew is included
in the regular foreign language
curriculum, is to be known as the
Alexander Lamport Hebrew
Achievement Award.
This presentation, consisting of
a U.S. Savings Bond and an award
certificate, will honor the memory
of Alexander Lamport, industrial-
ist and lover of the Hebrew lan-
guage.
this research project, have already pA r l eizcehoulain has won a chemistry
achieved important results. They
are the first researchers to have
successfully isolated in pure form
the active element of hashish, and
this is expected to be of consider-
able value pharmacologically. For
his part in the research, Dr.
Yehiel Gaoni, who are conducting
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U.S. Backs Claims
for Yugoslav Victims
of Nazism; Rusk Acts
LONDON (JTA) — Secretary of
State Dean Rusk approached West
German Foreign Minister Gerhard
Schroeder in support of the claim
by Yugoslavia for compensation for
Yugoslav victims of Nazism, a
Labor member of Parliament re-
vealed in the House of Commons.
Deputy A. E. Orain asked Robert
Mathew, the parliamentary secre-
tary of state for foreign affairs,
whether he knew about the ap-
proach and whether he would as-
sociate the British government with
it.
Mathew replied he had seen re-
ports "of a message sent by Dean
Rusk to Dr. Schroeder" but that
he had "no precise details" of the
content of the message.
He added that the question of
compensation was a matter for ne-
gotiation of the Yugoslav and West
German governments and that he
did not believe that intervention
by the British government "would
be helpful."
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Friday, June 12, 1964
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