15,000 Ybuths
Mark Holiday in
Moscow Square

NEW YORK (JTA)—One of the
most 'unusual demonstrations ever
witnessed in the Soviet Union oc-
curred Sept. 20, when a vast crowd
of Jews—including at least 15,000
young boys and girls—gathered in
a square in front of the Central
Synagogue of Moscow to celebrate
Simhat Torah. it was learned here.
According to- a highly reliable
American who came back from
Moscow today, the crowd in the
square gathered at about twilight
Monday, while inside the house of
worship other Jews were prepar-
ing to observe Simhat Torah
under the spiritual leadership of
Chief Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin.
In a short time, the Jews gathered
in the square numbered many
thousands. By mid-evening, there
were an estimated 15,000 youths in
the crowd.
As the sounds of the official
celebration emanated from the
synagogue, the crowd outside, led
by the youths, started singing and
dancing. Songs were rendered in
Hebrew and Yiddish. The youths
whirled in the square, dancing the
horah and doing other traditional
turns. The dancing and singing
continued until midnight.
The American was told by Mos-
cow Jews that the Simhat Torah
demonstration was the largest and
most enthusiastic witnessed in
Moscow in many years. -Russian
Jews said that the demonstration
constituted a mass answer on the
part of Jews. especially the youth.
to the Soviet government's efforts
to wipe out virtually all traces of
Jewish religious practice. The fact
that many of the songs were in
Hebrew, the Russians pointed out,
indicated not only that the youths
were declaring their friendship to
Israel but showed also that, des-
pite the fact that Hebrew is a for-
bidden language in the USSR,
many Jewish youths know at least
smatterings of the ancient Jewish
tongue.
The celebration was cited by
Bnai Brith president Label A.
Katz as "proof that the calcu-
lated program to erase Jewish
life from the Soviet scene is a
failure."
Addressing the opening session
of the 1964-65 Herzl Institute lec-
ture series, Katz, who is also co-
chairman of the World Conference
of Jewish Organizations, said that
"this new evidence that a cultural
consciousness persists arriong So-
viet, Jews, despite governmental
suppressions, should inspire the
Jews of America to continue their
vigorous protests against anti-Jew-
ish discriminations that exist in
Russia today.
(It was reported here from
Leningrad that, on the night of
Simhat Torah. some 15,000 Jews
in that city also took part in cele-
brations outside the local synago-
gue, which included singing and
dancing in the streets late into
the night.)

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El Al Inaugurates
Scandinavia Service

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

COPENHAGEN — El Al Israel
Airlines began an Israel-Scandina -
via service Sunday with a flight
of a Boeing '707 jet liner on a sche-
dule calling for weekly flights.
Flight: time will be five hours be-
tween Tel Aviv and Copenhagen.
The flights will be inaugurated
formally Oct. 11 and 18 with two
trips from Israel. About 150 per-
sons have been • invited for the
flight, including Transport Minis-
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ister Eliyahu Sasson, tourism offi-
cials, the press and trade and in-
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flight from Copenhagen is plan-
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The airline has opened a Scan-
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