50 Leading Americans Appeal
to Moscow on Jewish Policy

NEW YORK (JTA) — A group of more than 50 leading United States Senate's condem-
Americans, Jews and Christians, published a full-page appeal nation of such persecution."
"In the past," Sen. Case stated,
Jan. 14 in the New York Times urging the Soviet government "the
State Department has indica-
to end discrimination against Jews in the USSR and calling ted
its opposition to such a reso-
for the restoration of religious and cultural rights to Soviet lution,
but I do not believe that the
Jews.
continued reports, coming out from
The rights cited included Goldberg; Senators Jacob Javits behind the Iron Curtain relate
permission for the free func- and Robert Kennedy of New York; such extreme punishment of Sov-
Mayor Robert F. Wagner; former iet Jewry that the State Depart-
tioning of synagogues and Asst.
Secretary of State Adolf ment will alter its views."
central institutions to serve Berle Jr.;
Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr,
Sen. Case voiced hope that "the
the religious needs of Soviet the Protestant
Dr. Javits-Ribicoff-Case resolution will
Jews, permission for Jewish Harry Emerson theologian;
Fosdick; play- serve as a spur to the Johnson ad-
education in all forms, includ- wright Arthur Miller; novelist Saul ministration to take a strong and
ing- training of rabbis, remov- Bellow; architect Philip Johnson; firm stand in every forum at every
al of obstacles to performance David Callahan, editor of Common- opportunity in behalf of free exer-
of such religous rites as re- weal; historian Richard Hoffstad- cise of religion by Jews and all
ligious burial and circumcis- ter; poet Karl Shapiro and others. others within the Soviet borders."
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A rally took place Sunday at
ion; publication of Hebrew
Bibles. prayerbooks, religious Cong. Zichron Ephraim, oppos- Governor Heads Protest
texts and manufacture of ite the Soviet mission to the by New Jersey Clergymen
Nations. It was the oc-
prayer shawls, phylacteries United
for the dedication of "a
NEWARK, N.J., (JTA) — Gov.
and me7ilzahs; and the re-es- casion
monument to the 3,000,- Richard J. Hughes of New Jersey,
tablishment of Jewish cultur- living
000 suffering Jews_ of the Sov- Mayor Hugh J. Addonizio of New-
al institutions so that Jewish iet Union" Rabbi Arthur Schne- ark,
leading educators and repre-
artists could develop Jewish ier, spiritual leader of the con- sentatives of Catholic and Protest-
culture in Yiddish and He- gregation, and Judge Benjamin ant churches, joined New Jersey's
brew.
Gasman. its president, conducted
major communities in a mass meet-

The appeal also urged Soviet
authorities to permit Jews separ-
ated from their families to leave
Russia to be reunited, to permit
religious and cultural contacts by
Soviet Jews with Jewish commun-
ities in other countries, official
exchange visits and religious pil-
grimages to the Holy Land, and el-
imination of "the anti-Jewish char-
acter that so strongly colors the
official campaign against economic
crimes."
Signers of the appeal included
Supreme Court Justice Arthur

the ceremonies.
The bronze plaque, bearing the
inscription "Hear the Cry of the
Oppressed — The Jewish Commun-
ity in the Soviet Union," will be
attached permanently to the front
of the synagogue under continuous
illumination "so that passersby will
be struck by the solemnity and ser-
iousness of the tragic plight which
confronts Soviet Jewry."
Following the ceremonies, a cap-
acity audience attended a protest
meeting against Soviet anti-
Semitism in the synagogue's sanc-
tuary. Addresses were delivered
by Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller,
VIVO Institute Marks
Mayor Wagner. Senators Javits and
40th Year at Conclave Kennedy; Label A. Katz, national
president of the Bnai Brith: and
NEW YORK (JTA) — The 40th Stanley Lowell, chairman of the
anniversary of the existence of New York City Commission on Hu-
YIVO Institute for Jewish Re- man Rights.
search was celebrated here at the
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
opening session of the three-day Negro civil rights leader and the
annual conference of the Institute,
recipient of the latest Nobel Prize

at the Hunter College Assembly
Hall this week.
Prof. Nathan Reich, chairman of
die YIVO hoard of directors, who
presided at the opening session,
reviewed Jewish cultural life in
the United States. He stressed the
contribution which the YIVO has
made to the strengthening of Jew-
ish feelings among Jews in this
Country.
He reported that, during the 25
years of the functioning of the
YIVO in the United States, it pub-
lished more than 300 books and
other publications dealing with
problems concerning Jews. Adding
that the YIVO library in New
York has the largest collection of
Jewish books and newspapers in
the world, he appealed to Ameri-
can Jewry for increased financial

aid.

Later, Soviet discriminations
against Jewish religion were ana-
lyzed at the conference. Dr.
Simon Segal, director of the de-
partment for foreign affairs of
the American Jewish Committee
and member of the VIVO board
of directors, presided at the ses-
sion at which Negro-Jewish re-
lations were also analyzed.
Dr. Erich Goldhagen, lecturer in
political science at Hunter College,
reviewed the fight against Jewish
religion in Russia since the early
days of the Bolshevik revolution
till today. Milton Himmelfarb, di-
rector of Information Service of the
American Jewish Committee, spoke

of the role which Jews play in the
civil rights struggle in this country.

Other subjects dealing with his-
torical developments in Jewish life
were discussed by Prof. Harry M.
Orlinsky of the Hebrew Union Col-
Jewish Institute of Religion,
lege
and Prof. Michael Astour, of
Brandeis University.

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Lordly words are not fitting for
a fool; Much less are lying words
for a lord. —Proverbs

for Peace, called on the Soviet
government to end discrimina-
tion in a letter published Jan.
16 in the New York Times.

The Negro leader endorsed the
published appeal by prominent
Americans and said that he was
"profoundly shocked" by the treat-
ment of the Jewish people in the
Soviet Union.
"I should like to add my voice to
the list of distinguished Americans
of all faiths who have called the
injustices perpetrated against the
Jewish community in the Soviet
Union to the attention of the
world," he declared.
Denouncing the anti-Jewish tone
of the economic trials in the USSR,
Dr. King also urged the resump-
tion of the free functioning of syn-
agogues, the end of interference in
the performance of Jewish sacred
rites and the restoration of relig-
ious and cultural freedom of the
Jewish community.
"In the name of humanity, I
urge the Soviet government to end
all discriminatory measures
against its Jewish community. I
will not remain silent in the face
of injustice," Dr. King declared.
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State Dept. May Drop
Opposition to Resolution

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen.

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Knesset to Start Drive

LONDON (JTA) — The request
for another publication in Yiddish
in the Soviet Union, in addition to
the government-sponsored monthly
Sovietish Heimland, was voiced in
Moscow at a four-day conference
of Jewish writers and literary crit-
ics, according to information from
the Soviet capital.
Speakers pointed out that there
was need for such a publication
to appear in Kiey and Vilna. prov-
incial Jewish centers.
An exhibition of 76 paintings by
12 Israeli artists was opened at the
Pushkin Museum in Moscow, a dis-

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97,000 Israelis Press

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- A peti-
tion bearing 97,000 signatures urg-
ing Israel's parliament to initiate
a worldwide campaign to bring
about an easing of the plight of
Soviet Jewery was presented to the
Parliment.
The signatures were collected
by the Moaz, the Organization for
Soviet Jewery. The petition was
presented to a K.nesset•subcommit-
tee. The petition called for debate
by the Knesset and Knesset action
to harness world public opinion
and world parliaments in the
struggle for Soviet Jewry and for
the right of Soviet Jews to emi-
grate.

Kvutza Ivrit, the Hebrew cul-
tural group, will meet 8:30 p.m.
Saturday at the Jewish Center.
Abraham Klock will speak.

Celebrating Our 25th Anniversary

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ing protesting anti-Semitism in the
Soviet Union.
Both Gov. Hughes and Mayor
Addonizio — the latter in his capa-
city as chairman of a special, state-
wide mayor's committtee — issued
proclamations earlier designating
Jan. 14 as a day of protest against
Soviet Russia's practices of anti-
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Clifford P. Case, New Jersey Re-
publican, said that he believes the
State Department will drop its op-
position to a Senate resolution
against Soviet anti-Semitism and
that he is joining with two sena-
tors of Jewish faith to reintroduce
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Sen. Case said he has notified ,...
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necticut Democrat, and Jacob K.
Javits, New York Republican, that
he would join them in sponsoring

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