Number of Immigrants to U.S. May Be Reduced by New Law
NEW YORK (JTA)—The stricter labor provisions of the landmark Immigration
Act of 1965 which abolished the 40-year-old national-origins quota system dominating
American immigration policy may serve to reduce the total number of immigrants to
the United States, according to a study prepared by Sidney Liskofsky, immigration
specialist of the American Jewish Committee.
"Under the old quotas, the door was open to certain immigrants unless the
Secretary of Labor closed it. Now, with strict schedules of occupations in undersupply
and oversupply, the door is closed unless he opens it," Liskofsky asserted.
The primary change in the Immigration Act of 1965 is its abolition of the
national-origins quotas and of the 'restrictions on persons of half-Asian parentage. In
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addition, it established higher numerical ceilings for immigration visas-170,000 for the
Eastern Hemisphere and 120,000 for the Western—to be granted on a first-come,
first-served basis.
Pro-immigration groups, Liskofsky declared, are generally satisfied with the new
law, but they are concerned about hardships that might ensue from the labor-clearance
provisions and from certain defects, such as the absence of a statute of limitations
on deportation and a visa-review board. "Efforts will doubtless be made in the
future by the pro-immigration groups as well as by the Department of Justice and
the Congressional immigration committees to correct the law's remaining weaknesses,"
he predicted.
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Nationwide Posting of Declaration
of Soviet Jewry's Bights Spearheads
Campaign for Public Opinion on Issue
Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of the American Jewish Conference on Soviet
Jewry, an association of 25 national Jewish organizations, announced that a "Declara-
tion of Rights for Soviet Jewry" will be posted in virtually every Jewish institution
throughout the United States including synagogues and Jewish community centers, dur-
ing the week between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, with communitywide ceremonies
highlighting this event. Jewish Community Councils and Jewish Community Relations
Councils are coordinating this effort in a number of communities.
Rabbis have been called upon by their national congregational bodies to read the
declaration from the pulpit On Rosh Hashana.
The declaration was adopted by the Conference at a leadership conference in
Philadelphia last April. The signatures of the presidents of the 25 national Jewish or-
ganizations comprising the conference were inscribed at that time in a ceremony in his-
toric Congress Hall, where the Bill of Rights was added to the United States Constitu-
tion.
Shown here in abridged form, the declaration will be displayed in large poster
size and will bear facsimilies of the signatures of the 25 presidents.
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e, the representatives of American Jewry, are met today in a Hall hallowed in history, echoing with the voices of men who made
fibe age-OId dream of liberty the law of these United States of America. Here was adopted the Bill of Rights, a lasting legacy of America's
founders to all the generations of their countrymen, a light of hope to those in all parts of the world yet waiting to walk in dignity, to
Eve in freedom. The year was 1791. Nearly two centuries later countless millions throughout the world still wait. Among them are three
tuMion of our fellow-Jews in the U.S.S.R.
n 1917 the Soviet Government came intopower in Russia. One of its first acts was to write the Declaration of Rights of the Peoples
of Russia. This and subsequent declarations promised all the peoples of the U.S.S.R. cultural freedom. Today, nearly fifty years later,
these rights, granted to all other nationalities within the U.S.S.R., are denied only to Jews.
e protest the violation of the human rights of three million of our brethren, citizens of the U.S.S.R. They are victims of a policy
• calculated to weaken the fabric of their lives as Jews by systematically destroying its unique threads. The doors of hundreds of Jewish
tIrtattgogutis are closed. Rabbis and teachers are growing old and there are no functioning institutions for training replacements. Jewish
ling presses are virtually at a standstill. Jewish children are cut off from their heritage and Jewish youth is denied its birthright—the
ride and dignity of belonging to the Jewish people. Jews of the U.S.S.R. are denied the fundamental human rights to lire their lives in
Accordance with the precepts and practices of Judaism, without fear and without hindrance.
e, the representatives of American Jewry, assembled here today, call upon the government of the U.S.S.R.:
ID To restore its Jewish citizens to a position of equality with its citizens of all other nationalities.
(2) To permit its Jewish citizens freely to practice, enhance and perpetuate their culture and religion by removing all discrimin-
atory measures designed to restriathis freedom.
(3) To make available the institutions, schools, textbooks and materials necessary to teach Jewish children the languages, the
history, the beliefs, the practices and the aspirations of the Jewish people.
(4) T6 permit the Jews of the U.S.S.R. freely to develop Jewish communal life and to associate and work with Jewish contmuni-
tie and groups inside and outside the Soviet Union.
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(5) To use all the means at its disposal to eradicate anti•Semitism.
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(6) To permit Soviet Jewish families, separated as a result of the Nazi holocaust, to be reunited with their relatives abroad.
The posting of the declaration and the accompanying ceremonies, which is expected
to involve prominent local personages, governors, mayors, Jewish leaders, churchmen,
civil rights leaders and others, is part of an ongoing campaign by the American Jew-
ish Conference on Soviet Jewry to arouse and maintain public opinion and world pressure
on the Soviet authorities to accord Soviet Jews equal treatment with all other ethnic
and religious minorities in Russia.
The Appeal of Conscience Foundation, an interfaith organization devoted to alert-
ing world opinion to the plight of Soviet Jewry, called on the major political parties of
New York State to join the world-wide protest against anti-Jewish discrimination in the
Soviet Union. In letters to platform committee chairmen of the Democratic, Liberal and
Republican parties, Rabbi Arthur Schneier, of Congregation Zichron Ephraim, head of
the foundation, asked that these parties "join the international and interdenominational
resolution to ameliorate religious and cultural restrictions against Jews in Russia."
JERUSALEM (JTA) — As Israel's Cabinet Sunday lauded Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol and Foreign Minister Abba Eban for the manner
in which they handled the most recent Syrian crisis, Eshkol warned the
government and the country that there is no certainty at all that the
Syrians will now keep the peace. "There is no way of knowing," he
cautioned, "whether they will keep 'peace now or will continue the
aggressions against Israel as their leaders keep saying they will." Then
the premier added: "In the latter case, Israel is ready to defend her
territory and the lives of her citizens."
The crisis on the Syrian border, specifically in the Lake Tiberias
area, has lasted from Aug. 15, the day the Syrians fired mortar shells
against an Israeli Coast Guard vessel marooned on a reef in the lake,
until Friday.
Israel sent its air force aloft on Aug. 15 when the Syrians continued
firing to prevent rescue of the Israeli wounded. Israel's jets knocked
out the two Syrian gun posts behind a hill near the eastern shore of the
lake. hi an ensuing dogfight, Israel shot down two Syrian planes —
one behind the Syrian lines, another
into the lake, with its pilot. On
Competing Drives
Friday, Israel finally refloated its
Face UJA If Party
stranded coast guard cutter, in the
face of Syrian threats to use its
Subsidies Are Cut
massed men and armor near the
Tiberias shore.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A number
of Israel political parties—including
- Sunday, Is r a e l i officials con-
the Liberals, Herut, National Reli-
tinued to display at Tiberias the
gious and Agudath Israel—are con-
crushed wing and part of the un-
sidering launching their own fund-
dercarriage of the Syrian MIG-17
raising campaigns in the United
which was shot down into Lake
States and other countries in com-
Tiberias, together with its pilot on
petition with the United Jewish Ap-
Aug. 15. Israel decided to display
peal, should the Jewish Agency go
through with cutting allocations to
the wreckage as a retort to a Syrian
the parties, it was indicated here Sun-
claim that Syrian frogmen had re-
day. The Agency's executive is sched-
covered the MIG and the body of
uled to decide next month on a pro-
the pilot from the lake, despite
posal by Aryeh L. Pincus, chairman
United
Nations and Israel surveil-
of the Jewish Agency executive, to
lance.
cut subsidies to political parties.
(Aryeh L. Pincus, chairman of the
The plane had been brought
Jewish Agency executive, told the
down close to the northeastern
Jewish Telegraphic Agency Tuesday
shore of Lake Tiberias where the
that contrary to recent reports, the
Syrian border lies 30 feet from the
Jewish Agency never paid subsidies
water's edge. An Israeli spokesman
to Israel political parties for political
said that small pieces of the wreck-
aims. "The grants of $3,000,000 per
-age and possibly the pilot's body
year were given to parties for fur-
might have floated to shore, where
thering such construction aims as
they could have been retrieved by
aliya (immigration) and absorption.
the Syrians. Asked if there was any
These mcnies were, like all other
agency funds, checked by the Agency
truth in the Syrian claim, an Israeli
comptroller.")
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Congress Representedat Knesset Dedication;
Parliament. Honors t•iirs. James Rothschild
Special JTA Teletype Reports to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM—With 44 leaders of parliaments of free countries throughout
the world in attendance, Israel's new Knesset building was dedicated Tuesday at
impressive ceremonies.
The United States Congress was represented by a specially designated dele-
gation. On behalf of the Senate, and as representatives of Vice President Humphrey
as the presiding officer of the Senate, the delegation was composed of Sen. Clifford
Case, New Jersey Republican, and Sen. Donald Russell. South Carolina Democrat.
The House of Representatives was represented by Rep. Frank Horton, New York
Democrat, and Rep. Cornelius Gallagher, New Jersey Rpublican. Two of them
are identified with foreign affairs. Sen. Case is a member of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. Rep. Gallagher is on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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