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Russian Discrimination Top Issue
for Jewry, Says World. Jewish VIP

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

BUENOS AIRES—The principal
problem with which world Jewry
must deal today is the deprivation
by Soviet authorities of the cult-
ural and religious rights of Rus-
sian Jewry, Yehuda Hellman, sec-
retary of the World Conference of
Jewish Organizations, said here
Tuesday at a press conference.
Hellman, who is also executive
director of Conference of Presi-
dents of Major American Jewish
Organizations, also told the corres-
pondents that establishment of dip-
lomatic relations between Israel
and West Germany had not closed
the "historic reckoning" between
Jews and the German people but
that it had opened the door be-
tween them. The press conference
was arranged by the Daia, the
central representative body of
Argentine Jews, and the Buenos
Aires Kehilla.
The visiting Jewish officials
also stressed the importance of
cooperation between Jewish or-
ganizations throughout the world
and added that there was need
for a "Dialogue" between Arg-
entine and North American
Jewry.
He expressed surprise at the
absence in Argentina of any res-
triction on Jewish student admis-
sions to universities and at the
fact that Jews may buy property
freely. He then emphasized the im-
portance of a COJO resolution urg-
ing overseas Jewish groups not to
intervene in the internal affairs of
other Jewries—a reference to acti-
vities of the American Jewish
Committee in Latin • American
countries.
One of the activities in which
Hellman participated was a cere-
mony marking the 15th annivers-

sentatives by Soviet officials to
ease some of the restrictions on
Russian Jewish cultural and reli-
gious life would prove to be
"empty gestures."
He urged the Conference's 24
affiliates to send large delegations
to launch a year-long campaign on
Sept. 19, in Washington, for an Et-
ernal Light Vigil on behalf of
Soviet Jews.
Elsewhere:
• SAN FRANCISCO — Jews in
the Soviet Union are living in fear
and suffering persecutions, Prof.
David Weiss, a University of Cali-
fornia bacteriologist just back from
the USSR, declared here. He visit-
ed the USSR as a guest of the Sov-
iet Academy of Medical Science.
In an interview in The Jewish
Community Bulletin, local week-
ly, Dr. Weiss declared that, contr-
ary to official Soviet government
efforts to convince foreigners that
Jews there receive the same treat-
ment given to all other citizens,
Russian Jews are denied religious
rights granted to others.
One Russian Jew told him, the
scientist reported, that acceptance
of a Jewish prayer book from a
foreign visitor could result in long
imprisonment on charges of "pos-
session of subversive material."
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Dr. Weiss sad he could not find any
Yiddish schools, Jewish book stores
officiating in Main Sanctuary
or kosher restaurants anywhere in
the USSR during his visit.
• LONDON — More than 33,000
Soviet children whose -"mother
tongue" is German - are being
taught German in the Soviet Rep-
ublic of Kazakstan, according to
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information received through an
article in a German-language
Cantor — Bernard Schottenstein
weekly, Neues Leben, published in
Moscow by Pravda, the official
in Nusbaum Hall
organ of the USSR Communist
Party.
Observers here noted immedi-
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of verse by the Yiddish poet, Jo-
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Vergelis, currently on a visit to
Latin America, has been issuing
statements, declaring that there
were no anti-Semitic persecutions
in the Soviet Union and that there
are no denials of cultural and re-
ligious rights for Soviet Jewry. In
Montevideo, he is the guest of "Our
Friend," a Yiddish daily news-
paper published here by pro-Com-
munists.
The Jewish community of Uru-
guay is the central body of all
Jewry here, including the f our
main branches — Ashkenazic, Sep-
hardic, German and Hungarian. In
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nounced that Vergelis had been
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ary of the death of his father, Jac-
ob Hellman, who served as head
of the World Jewish Congress Of-
fice in Buenos Aires for 11 years.
The event was attended by a large
number of Jewish communal lead-
ers and friends. Hellman related
episodes from the life of his father
in the Baltic states, Poland and
Palestine.
* * *
NEW YORK (JTA)—Soviet offi-
cials have informed the Jews of
Tallin, in Estonia, that the build-
ing housing the community's syna-
gogue will be torn down to make
way for an urban renewal pro-
ject, and have rejected a request
for permission for a new location
for the synagogue, the American
Soviet Conference on Soviet Jewry
reported.
The Conference, representing 24
major Jewish organizations, also
disclosed that a Conference dele-
gation had reported this informa-
tin about the 4,000-member Jewish
community's problems in Estonia,
to the United States State Depart-
ment.
The delegation told the State
Department that the Tallin syna-
gogue was the 360th Jewish house
of worship shut down by Soviet of-
ficials since 1959. The figure was
based on documents presented by
the Soviets at United Nations
meetings.
The Conference issued an appeal
to the Soviet government against
tearing down the existing syna-
gogue without providing the Jew-
ish communities with facilities for
a replacement.
Rabbi Seymour J. Cohen of
Chicago, chairman of the Con-
ference steering committee, said
that promises made to visiting
Western rabbis and press repre-

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Jew Denounces 'Reactionary' Judaism
at Ukrainian Academy Symposium

LONDON (JTA)—The House of
Science in Kiev recently held a
symposium on "The Ideology of
Judaism," in which a Jewish mem-
ber of the Ukrainian Academy of
Science denounced "the ethics of
Judaism and its reactionary es-
sence," according to information
received here from the Ukrainian
capital.
The Ukrainian Academy of
Science is the organization which,
two years ago, published a violent-
ly anti-Semitic book, "Judaism
Without Embellishment," by a Prof.
T. K. Kitchko. His thesis was sub-
sequently rejected by - some top
Communist leaders in Moscow.
The speaker who attacked
Judaism most forcefully, accord-
ing to the atheist Ukrainian
monthly magazine Liudina I Svit
(Men and Enlightenment) which
reported the symposium, was a
well-known writer on_ atheism,
Shakhnovich, a Jew.
He denounced "bourgeois philo-
sophers who identify Judaism with
Jewish culture." He declared:
"Foreign defenders of religion are
trying to represent atheist propa-
ganda against Judaism as the per-
secution of Jewish believers. They
are deliberately confusing religion,
politics and ethnography, claiming
that every Jew is a follower of the
Jewish faith or a Judaist and that
every Jew is an Israelite."
Elsewhere in the USSR:
Alfons Stonis, a Lithuanian na-
tionalist who collaborated with the
Nazis in the mass murder of Lithu-
anian Jewry and who was sen-
tenced to death by a court in that
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
10—Friday, August 27, 1965

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