At this "season of our freedom -"
A Call to Detroit Jewry ..
THAT THE JEWS OF THE SOVIET UNION MAY KNOW THAT
THEY HAVE NOT BEEN FORGOTTEN
Jews in the Soviet Union continue to suffer under a government policy aimed
at their religious and cultural extinction. Synagogues, religious schools and cul-
tural efforts suffer under special disabilities not imposed on any other major
religious denomination or nationality grouping in the U.S.S.R. The 3,000,000
Jews in the Soviet Union — the second largest Jewish community in the world
must know that they have not been forgotten. Our protests against these injus-
tices must continue.
*The American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry will meet in
solemn national assembly on April 17-18 in Philadelphia as a
demonstration of its determination to continue its efforts on be-
half of Soviet Jewry and to project new proposals for action on
the national and local level. Persons available to attend this con-
ference are invited to contact the Jewish Community Council,
WOodward 2-6710.
The Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit
in cooperation with the American Jewish Conference on
Soviet Jewry* urges that the following statement be read
at the Seders of every Detroit area Jewish household:
(Constituent Organizations)
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
his is the matzoh of oppression
American Jewish Committee
American Jewish Congress
The leader of the service adds the following comments when distributing the matzoh
after the blessing over the matzoh. He lifts a matzoh, sets it aside and says:
American Zionist Council
American Trade Union Council for Histadrut
B'nai B'rith
Central Conference of American Rabbis
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Hadassah, Women's Zionist Organization of Ameica
Jewish Agency for Israel, American Section
We set aside this "lechem oni"—this matzoh of oppression
—to remember the 3 million Jews of the Soviet Union. Most
of them cannot have matzoh on their Seder tables tonight.
Conceive of Passover without matzoh—without that visible
reminder of our flight from slavery.
Jewish Labor Committee
\,Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A.
21 Labor Zionist Movement—Poale Zion, Farband, Pioneer Women
-
)Religious Zionists of America—Mizrachi-Hapoel Hamizrachi
Mizrachi Women's Organization of America.
National Community Relations Advisory Council
National Council of Jewish Women
Think of Soviet Jews ! They cannot learn of their Jewish past
and hand it down to their children. They cannot learn the
languages of their fathers and hand them down to their chil-
dren. They cannot teach their children to be their teachers,
their rabbis.
National Council of Young Israel
Rabbinical Assembly
Rabbinical Council of America
Synagogue Council of America
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America
United Synagogue of America.
Zionist Organization of America
They can only sit in silence and become invisible. We shall
be their voice, and our voices shall be joined by thousands
of men of conscience aroused by the injustice imposed on
Soviet Jews. Then shall they know that they have not been
forgotten, and they that sit in darkness shall yet see a great
light.
JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT — 163 MADISON AVENUE
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. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Friday, April 1, 1966-7
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