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April 01, 1966 - Image 7

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1966-04-01

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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

(This Advertisement Sponsored by Friends)

. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
sir

Friday, April 1, 1966-7
Amormailiw

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