Protests Mount Against USSR Anti-Semitism
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of the yeshivah headed by Rabbi
Levin.
Articles dealing in general with
the political and cultural life of
Jews in the USSR are included in
two successive issues of Soviet
Weekly, a publication in London
for British readers. One is a
lengthy piece by Aaron Vergelis,
edtor of Sovietische Heimland, the
only Yiddish magazine in the US-
SR, giving the usual statistics in-
tended to th h
discriminations against Jews in
his country. This article is illustra-
ted with photographs showing
large audiences attending Jewish
cultural events in Vilma, Lithu-
ania.
Another Soviet Weekly article is
devoted to an effort to disprove
that synagogues in the Soviet
Union have been demolished. This
piece claims that, contrary to re-
ports in the foreign press in the
United States and Britain, the
synagogue in Minsk, reported clos-
ed down, has actually moved to
rented quarters in another loca-
tion, when the city had to raze the
"dilapidated synagogue building"
as well as "other old houses in the
street."
The new leadership of the
Soviet Union is just as adamant
as . the Khrushchev regime was
' in refusing to contribute "a
single kopeck" to the United Na-
tions Emergency Force stationed
in the Gaza area and to the
United Nations peace-keeping op-
erations' in the Congo, Secretary
General U Thant learned here
from Nikilai T. Fedorenko, Mos-
cow's permanent representative.
The USSR has consistently re-
fused to pay anything toward the
operation and upkeep of UNEF
since that force was established in
1956 to guard against Egyptian in-
cursions against Israel on the Gaza
Strip border and Sharm el-Sheikh.
overlooking the Gulf of Akaba.
Similarly, Moscow has refused to
pay for the u4 expenses in the
Congo. It owes the United Nations
$52,600,000 on both those accounts.
In a conference with Thant, Fed-
orenko reiterated his government's
refusal to make any payment on
those accounts which. according <to
Moscow, were • voted "illegally" by
the General Assembly. The United
States has indicated that, unless
the USSR pays up, it should be de-
nied , a vote in the next Assembly.
Meanwhile, postponement of the
opening of the Assembly, schedul-
ed for November 10, is still bein
discussed. At the same time, it
was revealed that behind-the-
Scenes agreement has been reached
on election of the Sudanese ambas-
sador, A. H. Adell, as president
of•the forthcoming Assembly.
Stevenson Criticizes USSR
for Treatment of Jews
NEW YORK (JTA)--Ambassad-
or •Adlai E. Stevenson, head of the
United States delegation to the
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United Nations, criticized the Sov-
iet Union for the discriminations
practiced there against Jews. "The
battle for justice," he said, "has
not been won—not for the Jews
in the Soviet Union and not for the
Negroes in the United States."
He spoke at a dinner at the Wald
orf Astoria Hotel at which he ac-
' cepted the Stephen S. Wise award
of the American Jewish Congress
—an engraved' medallion—for "ad-
vancing human freedom." Awards
f or "strengthening Jewish life"
were presented at the dinner of
Joseph, Michael and Samuel Dar-
off • of Philadelphia, prominent
Jewish philanthropists.
Israel Asks UN Body
to Act On Discriminations
Against Jews In Russia
PARIS (JTA) — Israel called
upon the United Nations Educa
tional, Scientific and Cultural Or-
ganization to intervene with the
Soviet government in an 'effort to
end discrimination against Jews
in that country, particularly in the
field of education.
Addressing the general assemb-
ly here of UNESCO, Dr. Moshe
Avidor, head of Israel's delegation
deplored the lack of cultural faci-
lities for Jewish children in the
Soviet Union, which, he said,
"starts by affecting young, defense-
less children and ends by perput-
ating inequalities, unhappiness and
misery."
Asserting that he was appealing
"not out of recrimination but from
deep anxiety and in the spirit of
UNESCO's principles, "Dr. Avidor
urged that "whatever educational
discrimination prevails in this res-
pect" in the Soviet Union is an
injustice that can and should be
corrected."
Preparations were being com-
pleted here for a French national
conference, which will deal with
the situation of Soviet Jewry. This
conference will be attended by
more than 50 prominent non-Jew-
ish personalities, representing ex-
treme left-wing although non-Com-
munist factions. The meeting will
aim at demonstrating to Russia's
new rulers that the anxiety over
the fate of Soviet Jewry is not a
form of the "cold war" but an in-
terest felt by some of the best
friends of the USSR.
J e wish Communist leaders
. from a number of Western coun-
tries urged the new Soviet gov-
ernment to "correct" the Mos-
cow policy of supressing Jewish
culture, and to intensify offici-
al efforts to combat anti-Semi-
tism in the country.
k The Communist leaders, who
came here to celebrate the 30th
anniversary of the Paris Yiddish
Communist daily Neie Presse, re-
portedly agreed at a meeting last
Sunday that "there is something
to correct" in the policy toward
Jews in the Soviet Union.
(In Mexico City, Yaacov Hazan,
a Mapam member of the Knesset,
Israel's Parliament, severly criti
cized the Soviet Union for dis-
crmunatiOn against Jews in the
USSR. He voiced his criticism at
a press conference.)
Indiana Senator Appeals
to New Soviet Rulers on Jews
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (JTA)
—The new Soviet government was
urged here by Sen. Vance Hartke
to abolish oppression of Jewish
religious and cultural life in the
Soviet Union. The senior Indiana
senator spoke at the Bnai Brith
Hillel Foundation.
Sen. Hartke , poined out that, in
protesting against the Soviet policy
on Jews, Americans are not act-
ing with malice but in the interest
of all mankind. The senator is a
sponsor of the Senate resolution
passed last year which, condemned
Hospital Seeks $2,500,000
MINNEAPOLIS (JTA) -- Mount
Sinai Hospital has launched the
first capital funds drive in its 17-
year history, seeking $2,500,000 for
expansion and improvement of its
facilities.
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Friday, October 30, 1964-45
religous persecution in the Soviet
Sen. Kenneth Keating, New York
Union. The resolution called on the Republican, and Robert F. Ken-
Soviet Union, "in the name of de- nedy, fromer attorney general,
cency and humanity to cease ex- spoke at the conference, sharply
ecuting persons for alleged 'eco- criticizing Soviet treatment of Rus
nomic offenses, and fully permit sian Jewry. Former Federal Judge
the free exercise of religion and Simon H. Rifkin, presided.
the pursuit of cultun by Jews and
Represented in the conference are
all others within itsi,iorders."
local affiliates of the• American Jewish
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Committee. American Jewish Congress,
American Trade Union Council for His-
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National Jewish
Groups Protest
Soviet Prejudices
tadrut, American Zionist Council, Bnai
Brith Metropolitan Council, Brooklyn
Jewish Community Council, Central
Conference of American Rabbis, Far-
band Labor Zionist Order, Hadassah,
Jewish Labor Committee. Jewish War
Veterans, Religious Zionists of America,
National Council of Jewish Women,
National Council of Young Israel, Jew-
ish Welfare Board, New York Board of
Rabbis, Rabbinical Assembly of Amer-
ica, Rabbinical Council of America,
Synagogue Council of America, Union
of American Hebrew Congregations,
Union Synagogue of America and the .
Zionist Organization of America.
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
NEW YORK—More than 2,500
delegates representing every major
Jewish organization in the metro-
politan area met here Wednesday
night and adopted a statement de-
manding that the Soviet govern-
ment restore the cultural and re-
ligious rights of RusSian Jewry.
The conference, sponsored by
the New York Conference on So-
viet Jewry, ended with a silent
march to the headquarters of the
Soviet Union Mission to the United
Nations to transmit the statement
to Soviet officials.
The statement demanded the
lifting of official Soviet govern-
ment bans on the teaching of
Hebrew, the publication of reli-
gious texts, the training of rabbis
and cantors, the maintenance of
fraternal relatiosis with Jews out-
side the Soviet sphere- and permit-
ting other cultural and religious
practices and traditions n o w
specifically banned.
British Zionist Movement be WV
tablished.
Another resolution proposed a
policy of maximum Zionist. move-
ment involvement in alt phases of
Hebrew education in Canada and
urged the new ZOC executive to
strengthen the Hebrew day school
movement. It also called for a na-
tional survey to determine present
and future needs of Hebrew and
Zionist education at all leVels.
Another resolution urged the
new executive to explore the pos-
sibility of organizing a Canadian
Zionist youth commission to co-
ordinate the activities of the vari-
ous Zionist growth groups in Can-
ada.
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The delegates in a resolution
on aliyalt recommended the es-
tablishment in Israel of homes
for Canadian immigrants on easy
terms and that a policy of gen-
erous subsidization of moving
costs for Canadian settlers in
Israel along the lines of the
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