Famous Torch Light March Marks
Protest Against USSR Prejudice;
'Deep Concern' Shown by Johnson
NEW YORK (JTA)—More than
2.500 leading New York Jews, rep-
resenting 26 major national and
local Jewish organizations, march-
ed Oct. 28 in silent procession to
the headquarters of the Soviet Mis-
sion to the United Nations to pre-
sent a list of grievances against the
treatment of Jews in the Soviet
Union.
The march was sponsored by the
New York Conference on Soviet
Jewry, comprised of all major
Jewish organizations. The march-
ers carried lighted candies on
their way to the Soviet headquar-
ters from Hunter College where
they held a conference at which
they demanded an end to the
"scorn, discrimination and oppres-
sion" suffered by Jews in the
USSR.
The glass-enclosed candles car-
ried by the marchers, known as
"yahrzeit candles" are lighted by
Jews in the memory of the dead,
but a delegetion spokesman said
the candlesN were carried "in the
hope of rekindling Jewish culture
and religious life in the Soviet
Union." The petition brought to
the Soviet Mission called on the
Soviet government to:
I. Eradicate anti-Semitism by a vig-
orous educational effort by Govern-
ment and Party.
2. Permit the free functioning of
synagogues and private prayer meet-
ings.
3. Remove hindrances to the observ-
ance of such sacred rites as religious
burial and circumcision.
4. Make possible the production and
distribution of religious articles such
as prayer shawls and Jewish calendars.
5. Restore all rights and facilities
for the production and distribution of
matzoth and kosher food.
6. Furnish facilities ror the publi-
cation of Hebrew Bibles. prayerbooks
and other religious texts in necessary
quantities.
7. Permit the organization of a
nationwide federation of synagogues.
8. Sanction the right of such a fed-
eration to associate with organizations.
9. Permit Jews to make religious
pilgrimages to the Holy Places in Is-
rael.
10. Make it possible for all qualified
applicants to attend the Moscow Yeshi-
va. to provide facilities for the estab-
lishment of additional seminaries as
needed and to enable rabbinical stu-
dents to study at seminaries abroad.
II. Provide schools and other facil-
ities for the study of Yiddish and
Hebrew. and of Jewish history. litera-
. ture and culture. Permit Jewish
writers, artists and other intellectuals
to create their own institutions for
the encouragement of Jewish cultural
and artistic life.
12. Re-establish a Yiddish publishing
hopse, and to publish works in Yiddish
by classical and contemporary Jewish
writers.
13. Re-establish Yiddish- State thea-
ters in major centers of Jewish popu-
lation and to publish Yiddish language
newspapers with national circulations.
19. Eliminate discrimination against
Jews in all areas of Soviet public life.
15. End all propaganda campaigns
which use anti-Semitic stereotypes,
implied or overt.
16. Halt the discriminatory applica-
tion of maximum penalties, including
the death sentence, against Jews for
alleged economic crimes.
17. Make it possible on humanitarian
grounds for Soviet Jews who are mem-
bers of families separated as a result
of the Nazi holocaust to be reunited
with their relatives abroad.
continuing concern to me, to this
administration and to millions of
thoughtful people throughout the
United States."
The President stated his views
in a telegram to the protest meet-
ing of 2.500 leading New York
Jews.
President Johnson's message was
read to the meeting by former At-
torney General Robert F. Kennedy
who Tuesday was elected to the
U.S. Senate from New York.)
Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, New
York Republican defeated by
Kennedy, also attended the meet-
ing. Both spoke on the plight of
Soviet Jewry, and Sen. Keating
later joined the procession to the
USSR Mission.
In his message, President John-
son warned that "we cannot ignore
the existence of religious or racial
persecution anywhere in the
world." He noted that "anti-Semi-
tism in Russia is a long-standing
historical tragedy. Its roots go deep
into the Czarist era." He said there
have been periods of "relative re-
straint" in mistreatment of Rus-
sian Jews "but in the Soviet Union
today, there is grave governmen-
tal, social and economic pressure
against Jewish cultural and reli-
gious identity."
"All responsible officials in our ,
government continue to search for
practical methods of alleviating the
position of Soviet Jews," he added.
"Thus in February of this year, I
instructed Mrs. Marietta Tree, the
United States representative on
the Human Rights Commission, to
propose an article on anti-Semi-
tism. Over the vigorous objections
of the Soviet delegate, the follow-
ing article was adopted for con-
sideration by the UN General
Assembly this fall: 'States-parties
condemn anti-Semitism and shall
take action as appropriate for its
speedy eradication in the territo-
ries subject to their jurisdiction.' "
vert to true Leninist principles" of
equal treatment for all, without
racial or religious distinctions.
The conference opened with a
message from Lord Bertrand Rus-
sell who called particularly on the
left-wing movements to make their
voices heard on "the intolerable
persecutions reserved to Soviet
Jews." Lord Russell twice appealed
to Nikita Khrushchev when he was
Premier on behalf of Russian
Jewry, and has taken part in other
protests for Soviet Jewry.
"Treatment of Jews in the Soviet
Union causes great worries. "the
British philosopher said in his
cable. "It is intolerable that Com-
munist party publications in a
number of different Soviet Repub-
lics should contain anti-Semitic
material comparable to
Sturmer'." (The worst Jew-baiting
publication of the Nazi-era in Ger-
many.)
The philosopher added that
"the denial of the usual cul-
tural facilities. as well as the
harassing and the charges of
'parasitism' which only serve as
pretexts for anti-Semitic cam-
paigns" in the Soviet Union
"have made a strong impact on
all those who oppose the cold
war and are active in favor of
international understanding."
He asserted that it was a particu-
lar duty of leftist groups and or-
g.anizations to speak out on the is-
sue "so as not to let the cold war
partisans have the exclusive moral
responsibilities for protests direct-
ed against e intolerable persecu-
tions."
Jacques Nanted, the rapporteur
for the conference, reported on a
new Soviet publication which he
said openly incited to hatred. He
said it represented Jews as "the
hereditary enemies" of the Ukrain-
ians. He 1 described h t ,
story, published in October 1963.
in "Dniepro." the organ of the
Ukrainian Young Communist move
ment, which overtly and directly
portrayed Jews as hating and de-1
spising their non-Jewish fellow-
citizens "in the same way," accord-
ing to a review "as the thief hates
and despises his victim."
The rapporteur proceeded to de-
scribe a somber picture of cultural
and educational discrimination of- . 1
fecting Russian Jews. He warned
that some of the anti-Semitic in-
nuendos which have appeared re-;
cently in the Soviet press were
similar to the charges emanating
from the "Doctors' Trial" staged
during the Stalin regime which
sought to link Soviet Jews with
" imperialist espionage. "
Daniel Mayerti chairman for
the meeting, told the partici-
pants that "all • persons here
have been voluntarily chosen
from among friends of Russia.
None of those present harbors
the slightest anti-Soviet or anti-
Communist sentiments." As such,
said Mayer, the president of the
International League for the
Rights of Man, "it is our duty to
help the new Soviet leaders to
draw up a catalogue of their
tasks in the spirit of a return
to Leninist principles. It would
be unacceptable that the plan-
ned return to Leninism should
be realized n all fields but one
—that of anti-Jewish discrimina-
tion."
The former French cabinet
minister stressed that the anti-
Jewish measures could not be con-
sidered as falling entirely within
the Soviet ideological war on reli-
gion because "as far as Jews are
concerned, it is something far more
complex—education, culture, and
language—all that binds a man to
his fellow human beings and to;
life itself."
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"the moral judgment of millions
of people throughout the world
cannot be ignored by any govern-
ment."
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