UN Truce Chief Hears of Israelis in Syria Jail
Israelis Angered at Goldmann Statements
Urging Caution in Criticizing Soviet Policy
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power is not likely to yield. Our
only hope is to arouse support
through personalities and groups
whose opinion is very highly
respected by the Soviet govern-
ment and by establishing con-
tacts with the Soviet government
in an effort to persuade it that
it is against their own interest
to pursue this policy and thereby
antagonize millions of Jews and
non-Jews who feel that it is the
sacred right of the Soviet Jewry
to safeguard its specific char-
acter, maintain its contact with
the Jewish people as a whole
and to allow those who want to
be reunited with their families
in Israel and elsewhere."
Dr. Goldmann said that the issue
Was not the farm of protests, such
as the rallies which are being fre-
quently staged in American cities,
but what was said at the rallies.
He pointed out that Soviet officials
called comparisons between Nazi
and Soviet policy on Jews "impu-
dence" and that attitudes of such
officials had been hardening on
the issue in recent months.
He declared that there had been
Small signs of improvement in the
situation, noting that the number
of Jews leaving Russia, though still
very small—"only in hundreds"—
had doubled in the past year. This
year, in the widening cultural ex-
changes between Russia and Israel,
the Russians are sending top-rank-
ing artists, compared with second-
ranking ones of previous years, he
noted.
Resort to Nazism Charge
Negated by AJC President
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ap-
pealed to all Americans to "speak
out against the persecution of
Jews in the Soviet Union." He
made his appeal in a telegram
sent to a mass-meeting here pro-
testing Soviet suppression of Jew-
ish culture and religion.
Morris B. Abram, U.S. Repre-
sentative in the United Nations
Human Rights Commission and
president of the American Jewish
Committee, told the meeting that
"we do not say that the Soviets
are operating gas ovens or firing
squads against Jews." But, he said,
it was correct to emphatically
charge "that the Soviet Union is
harassing, persecuting and practic-
ing willful discrimination against
every person in its jurisdiction
who was born a Jew and who
wishes to remain one—to practice
his religion, to retain cultural ties,
to remain who he is, to continue
the heritage from which he springs,
and to pass that heritage to his
children." Abram pledged that pro-
tests would continue until dis-
criminatory Soviet practices are
halted.
Anti-Jewish Book on Talmud
Considered 'Insufficient' in Moscow
NEW YORK—(JTA)—An anti-
Jewish book about the Talmud pub-
lished last year in the oviet Union,
was criticized in the latest issue
of "Science and Religion," a Soviet
atheist magazine, for insufficiently
assailing "the ideology and practice
of modern Judaism," is was report-
ed here from Moscow by the New
York Herald Tribune.
The book, "What is the Talmud,"
by Moise Solomonovich Belensky, a
Jewish Communist who has written
a number of books and articles
attacking Judaism, was praised by
the magazine, however, for giving
a "clear picture of the negative
role of the Talmud." Propagandists,
the article added, "will find it use-
ful material for their work."
The review also lauded the book
for its description of the Talmud
as teaching that God "allotted to
the rich and those knowing the
Holy Scripture—that is the clergy
—with the qualities that make
them virtuous."
The Tribune report noted that
the review, with its anti-Jewish
overtones intended for internal
consumption, comes at the same
time that the Soviet government
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 18, 1965-7
has started a large-scale campaign
to convince the world it has no
official anti-Semitic line.
Bnai Zion Convention Protests
Soviet Anti-Jewish Discrimination
MONTICELLO, N.Y. (JTA) —
Delegates to the 56th annual con-
vention of Bnai Zion, the Ameri-
can Fraternal Zionist Organization,
protested the continued anti-
Jewish discrimination in the Soviet
Union and called for speedy im-
plementation of the complete 18-
point program adopted last year
by the American Jewish Conference
on Soviet Jewry.
Edward Shari, who was re-elect-
ed president of Bnai Zion, an-
nounced at the convention that
President Lyndon B. Johnson has
agreed to accept the organization's
1965 Bill of Rights Award "in trib-
ute to his inspiring leadership in
furtherance of the letter and spirit
of the tenents of the Bill of Rights."
The award will be presented to
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli
foreign ministry officials discussed
Tuesday the fate of seven Israelis
Mr. Johnson at the White House in still held in Syrian prisons with
Gen. Odd Bull, thief of staff of
the near future.
the United Nations Truce Super-
Student Meeting in Geneva
visory Organization.
Objects to Russian Persecution
Israel previously had asked the
GENEVA (JTA) — Evidence on UN organization here to ask Syr-
the persecution of Soviet Jews in ian officials about the still unre-
the religious, cultural and eco- patriated prisoners. Five Israeli
nomic fields was presented here
at a mass meeting organized by
the General Association of stu-
dents and the Geneva Union of
Jewish Students.
Jacques Nantet, Catholic writer
and rapporteur of the League for
Human Rights, and Ephraim
Tani, a journalist, both from
Paris, presented documents and
illustrations dealing with the
problems of Soviet Jewry. The
speakers emphasized the system-
atic denial of the existence of the
Jewish community in the Soviet
Union.
Jews and two Israeli Arabs are
known to be held by the Syrians,
some of them for more than 10
years. Israel has protected repeat-
edly against the continued deten-
tion of its nationals.
When an exchange of prisonrs
was negotiated last year, Syrian
authorities said all Israelis had
been released. Most of the 11 who
returned to Israel were half-crazed
from torture.
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