State Democrats
Protest Soviet
Anti-Semitism
The Michigan State Democratic
Convention, at the session in Lan-
sing last Friday, adopted a resolu-
tion protesting the anti-Jewish
policies of the Soviet Union. The
resolution, which was introduced
by Albert A. Berger, reads:
The repressive conditions under
which Jews live in the Soviet Union
today are viewed with increasing alarm
by freedom-loving people throughout
the world as reminiscent of the be-
ginnings of Jewish repression in Nazi
Germany in the years before World
War II.
The official government restrictions
imposed on 3,000,000 Jews in the Soviet
Union deny them their freedom of
worship, inhibit and harass them in
their adherence to tradition and iso-
late them from other Jews elsewhere
in the world.
The continuation of such impositions
by the Soviet government in all likeli-
hood will lead to a situation even more
intolerable unless world opinion is for-
mulated in protest against these prac-
tices.
We call upon the Administration to
protest these practices of the Soviet
Government toward its Jewish people
in order they might pursue their re-
ligious and traditional lives without
governmental harassment.
That this resolution be presented to
the Democratic Party in the National
Convention assembled in August of 1964
in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
That the chairman of the Democratic
Party, Mr. Ferency, be instructed to
send copies of this resolution to the
President of the United States, the
Secretary of State and the Senators and
Congressmen and our Ambassadors to
the United Nations protesting to the
Soviet Union against the reprehensible
oppressions and restrictions of religious
worship and education.
* * *
Clergymen Join
Students in Rally
for Soviet Jewry
NEW YORK (JTA) — Jewish,
Catholic and Protestant clergymen
participated in a prayer meeting
calling for an end to the religious
and cultural discrimination against
Soviet Jewry which was held here
Sunday near the office of the
Soviet Mission to the United Na-
tions.
The service was attended by
some 50 Jewish New York City
college students, all members of
the recently organized Student
Struggle for Soviet Jewry. Rep-
resentatives of the student com-
mittee have been staging a
hunger protest near the Soviet
Mission building since last week.
The clergymen read selections
from the Bible and, in an unusual
departure from Jewish practice,
the shofar was blown following a
prayer voiced by Rabbi Steven
Riskin, a teacher at Yeshiva Uni-
versity. The students carried signs
reading: "I am my brothers' keep-
er," "Reopen the synagogues," and
"Freedom now for Soviet Jews,"
* * *
World Jewry Adds
to Appeals to Moscow
MELBOURNE (JTA) — A reso-
lution urging the Soviet govern-
ment to take immediate steps to
restore Soviet Jewry to full cul-
tural and religious rights was
adopted at a mass meeting on the
issue called by the Australian
Jewish Board of Deputies. The
resolution was cabled to the So-
viet Embassy in Canberra for
transmission to Moscow.
LOS ANGELES (JTA)—A Los
Angeles Conference on Soviet
anti-Semitism was held here under
auspices of the Jewish Federation-
Council of Greater Los Angeles.
The conference was sponsored by
local affiliates of 24 organizations.
The conference adopted a series
of resolutions calling on Soviet
authorities to permit Russian Jews
to produce and distribute religious
articles, matzoth, kosher foods, and
to allow them to carry on other
religious and cultural activities.
* • *
MEXICO CITY (JTA) — The
Mexican Jewish community adopt-
ed a resolution calling on the
USSR government to grant Soviet
Jewry the same religious and cul-
tural freedom granted to other
minorities. The resolution was
adopted at a mass meeting.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 19, 1964
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Jews in Babylon 2,000 Years Ago
Conference Is Told
That Export Increase
Is Essential to Israel
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
410,000 Aided by
JDC During 1963
More than 410,000 needy Jews
in 26 countries received relief,
welfare and other aid from the
Joint Distribution Committee dur-
ing 1963, Moses A. Leavitt, JDC
executive vice-chairman reported
in the agency's annual report.
Nearly 90,000 were in Moslem
countries, over 86,000 in Israel
and the balance in Europe and
other areas. This is the greatest (
number reported to have been
aided by the agency since the days
of the D.P. camps, Leavitt said.
JDC's welfare and rehabilitation
operations cost $29,216,000 in 1963,
Leavitt disclosed. For its pro-
grams in some 30 countries in
1964, JDC has adopted a budget
of $30,769,000. JDC has spent al-
most $780,000,000 in its global
assistance programs since its in-
ception in 1914. The agency will
celebrate its 50th anniversary in
December.
JDC receives the bulk of Its
funds from the campaigns of the
United Jewish Appeal. Leavitt al-
so reported a substantial grant
from the Conference on Jewish
Material Claims Against Germany,
as well as smaller contributions
by Jewish communities in Canada,
South America, and by a number
of governmental and intergovern-
mental agencies. Funds from the
Claims Conference represent Ger-
man reparations and are used for
assistance to Nazi victims.
AMSTERDAM—A three-day con-
ference of Israeli economic and
commercial envoys in Western
Europe was opened here with an
address by Akiva Govrin, Israel's
minister in charge of foreign
trade, who called for increase in
exports as essential to Israel's
growing economy.
Among those taking part in the
conference were Israel's Ambas-
sador to the Netherlands, David
Shaltiel, and leading figure in
Israel's ministries of foreign af-
fairs, finance, commerce and in-
dustry.
In his address at the confeernce,
Govrin said that both the Euro-
pean Common Market and the
European free trade area will re-
main for years to come Israel's
main economic outlets.
He predicted that Israel will
be able to widen its recent
agreement with the Common
Market by doubling and trebling
its exports in those categories in
which concessions were gained.
Such an effort he noted would
also help to gain a similar ad-
Scribe writing on a parchment scroll on a porch over-
vance later in additional cate-
looking the Euprates river, with the tower of Baal and the city
gories of goods.
of Babylon in the background, is featured in one of eight dio-
Pointing out that today only 15
ramas depicting Jewish life in different countries of the dias-
per cent of Israel's industrial pro-
pora which will be shown at the American-Israel Pavilion at the
duction is being exported, Govrin
New York World's Fair. Other exhibits will feature a "Journey
said that increase of 25 per cent a
through 4,000 years of Jewish History," including Biblical times
year until 1970 was the country's
and modern Israel.
immediate goal.
This could be achieved, he de-
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