Appeal for the Restoration of Jewish Cultural
Rights in Russia Is Made to the USSR After
Protest March hi New York by 500 Rabbis
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Bessin, a Tunisian Jew, has been
elected a member of the Tunisian
National Assembly, it was reported
from Tunis. Bessin had been a
deputy in the first Tunisian As-
sembly.
Abraham Sasson. a 32-year-old
Jew, was named the dean of the
faculty of sciences at the univer-
city here by the Moroccan minister
of education. Sasson is a professor
of science.
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BOARD OF RABBIS MEMBERS OF NEW YORK IN FRONT OF SOVIET EMBASSY IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK (JTA)—More than
500 rabbis—Orthodox, Conserva-
tive and Reform — representing
congregations in New York City
and vicinity as well as in New Jer-
sey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania,
staged an impressive march in pro-
test against Jewish religious and
cultural repressions in the Soviet
Union. They addressed to the
Soviet government a ten-point ap-
peal for the restoration of Jewish
cultural and religious _rights and
an end to anti-Semitism in the
Soviet Union.
An appeal was also addressed to
President Johnson for support of
this protest. The letter to the
President will be taken to the
White House by U. S. Senator
Jacob K. Javits and Senator-elect
Robert F. Kennedy.
After the meeting, a delega-
tion of six rabbis tried unsuc-
cessfully to deliver the appeal to
the USSR authorities at the
Soviet Mission to the United
Nations. The delegation was re-
fused admission to Soviet head-
quarters on the grounds that
only missives from official gov-
ernmental bodies could be ac-
cepted. The Board of Rabbis
then said the protest and de-
mands would be mailed to the
Soviet Embassies in Washington
and New York.
The pleas to the Soviet Union
were backed in addresses at a
meeting held during the march by
Governor r4elson A. Rockefeller,
Javits, Kennedy, New York State
Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz
and Stanley Lowell, chairman of
the New York City Commission on
Human Rights, who appeared also
as the personal representative of
Mayor Robert F. Wagner.
The rabbis started their march
at a street corner near the head-
quarters of the Soviet Union's mis-
sion to the United Nations and
paraded silently, under police
guard, to the headquarters of the
Carnegie Endowment for Interna-
tional Peace, opposite the United
Nations enclave. Preceding Rabbi
Max Schenk, president of the New
York Board of Rabbis, which or-
ganized the protest, were a giant
menorah and one banner express-
ing the rabbinical protest. The ap-
peal to the Soviet government re-
quested:
1. Permission to Soviet Jews
for free functioning of syna-
gogues and private prayer meet-
ings, organization of a nation-
- wide federation of synagogues
and permission for association of
USSR Jews with organizations of
co-religionists abroad.
2. Removal of hindrances to
the observance of sacred rites
such as religious burial and cir-
cumcision.
3. Restoration of all rights and
facilities for the production and
distribution of matzot and other
kosher foods.
4. The provision of facilities
for the production and distribu-
tion of Jewish religious articles
like prayer shawls, mezuzot and
religious calendars as well as
facilities for the publication of
Hebrew Bibles, prayerbooks and
other religious texts "in the
necessary quantities."
5. Permission to Soviet Jews
to make religious pilgrimages to
Israel.
6. Permission to all qualified
applicants in the Soviet Union
to attend the yeshiva in Moscow
and the provision of facilities for
the establishment of additional
yeshivot, as well as permission
to rabbinical students to study at
Jewish theological seminaries
abroad.
7. The provision of schools and
other facilities for the study of
Yiddish and Hebrew, Jewish his-
tory, literature and culture as
well as permission to Jewish
writers, artists and other intel-
lectuals to create their own
institutions for the encourage-
ment of Jewish culture and
artistic life.
8. The re-establishment of a
Yiddish publishing house, Yid-
dish state theaters and Yiddish
language newspapers with na-
tional circulation.
9. Elimination of all discrim-
inations against Jews in all
areas of public life.
10. Permission to Jews sepa-
rated from their families by
World War II to leave the Soviet
Union for reunification with
their families abroad.
"We must renew our protests
until the Jews of the Soviet Union
feel relieved of any vestige of
persecution."
(In Washington. at the 66th bi
ennial convention of the Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations,
Rabbi Bernard Poupko of Pitts-
burgh urged that the appeal to the
Soviet authorities should be "in a
spirit of petition and request
rather than protest." But Prof.
Eric Goldhagen of Hunter College
criticized those who favor "in good
faith" the removal of the problem
from the public view and declared
that "whatever has so far been
achieved in easing the plight of
Soviet Jewry was only because of
pressure from abroad.")
Governor Rockefeller, in his ad-
dress, listed some of the signs of
anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union.
He noted that the number of
synagogues in the USSR has de-
clined from 450 in 1956 to 96 as of
last April; that at least 89 of the
Soviet citizens executed for so-
called "economic crimes," were
"publicly identifiable as Jews";'
that -state publishing houses have
published anti-Semitic works; that
Jewish cemeteries have been
closed down; that the training of
rabbis has been severely restricted,
and that "Jewish cultural life. has
been stifled."
Sen. Javits proposed three
courses of further action: 1. The
reintroduction in the next Senate
of the resolution condemning So-
viet anti-Semitism approved at the
last session of the Senate almost
unanimously; 2. That President
Johnson, at his forthcoming sum-
mit meeting with the leaders of
the USSR "must press on the
highest policy level this represSion
and persecution" of Soviet Jews;
and 3. It must be the policy of the
U. S. State Department to press
the issue of Soviet anti-Semitism
at every opportunity in the United
Nations.
Kennedy told the meeting that
the new leadership of the Soviet
Union must be made aware of the
fact that "Soviet relations with the
West can never be clear as long
as millions in the USSR are denied
the right to worship." He said:
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