Soviet Jews' Plight Told at White House
At the Lafayette Square in Washington, marking the issuance
of appeals in behalf of Russian Jewry, are• (from left) Rabbi Israel
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Mapai, Rafi Members Air 6—Friday, September 23, 1966
Possibility of Reunion
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A resolution Montevideo Jew Beaten
calling for the reunion of the Ma-
pai Party and Rafi, the dissident by Anti-Semitic Attacker
former members of Mapai now led
by former Price Minister David
Ben-Gurion, was adopted at a meet-
ing here of representatives of both
groups from agricultural settle-
ments, at which Ben-Gurion sharp-
ly attacked Premier Levi Eshkol.
As a step in the direction of pos-
sible reunification of Mapai and
Rafi, the meeting named a com-
mittee to investigate the possibili-
ties of changing Israel's electoral
system. Such a change has been
one of the main issues on which
Rafi had split from Mapai.
Although there were still sharp
Raft attacks against the present
government and against Prime
Minister Eshkol, at this meeting,
the consensus was that efforts to-
ward a new fusion should be con-
tinued. The meeting also called on
other labor parties to join the effort
at labor unity.
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — A
German Jew who told police he
was a member of "The Jewish
International Organization," Her-
bert Bittner, 31, was in critical con-
dition Tuesday after suffering a
beating from unknown assailants.
Police said they found him near
the English Church here, gagged,
bound and brutally attacked. The
police said they found a sign on the
victim's back declaring: "Let this
be a lesson to all damned Jewish
agents, so they will mind their
own business. Heil Hitler."
The victim said the organization
had its headquarters in Hamburg.
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Miller of New York, who is shown touching the torch , symbolizing
the Eternal Light, as a mark of concern for Soviet Jews; U.S.
HANK NEWMAN
Senator Jacob K. Javits of New York, Aaron Goldman of New
President
York, chairman of the National Community Relations Advisory
Council, and U.S. Senator Robert Griffin of Michigan.
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sent to United Nations Secretary
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help strengthen the survivalist General U Thant urging him on
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ate the plight of Russian Jewry.
Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of
the American Jewish Conference
for Soviet Jewry, detailed the
various discriminations imposed by
Soviet authorities. He reported
that since last year's rally in
Washington, "peripheral conces-
sions have been made by the Rus-
sian authorities, but the central
problem remains."
Rostow expressed the hope
that the USSR would grant the
Jews the rights accorded them
by other nations in Eastern
Europe.
A message to the gathering
from President Johnson ex-
pressed the hope for "an end to
the restrictive polices which _pre-
vent Soviet Jews from full en-
joyment of their heritage."
Rostow was quoted later by Jew-
ish leaders who met with him at
the White House, as indicating
hope that the Soviet Union would
accord Jews the religious facilities
available in other East European
Communist states. A statement is-
sued by Rabbi Miller said:
"Mr. Rostow recalled that on
this very day a year ago, Sept. 19,
the President expressed his deep
and continuing concern about the
discrimination imposed upon Sov-
iet Jewry by the Soviet govern-
ment. He cited recent develop-
ments in Eastern Europe as indica-
tions of how Communist societies
have moved to enable Jewish com-
munities to preserve their identity
and transmit their heritage. He
expressed the hope that such de-
velopments would soon be par-
alleled in the Soviet Union."
Rabbi Miller, accompanied by
leaders assure d the White
House that Jews would persevere
in their efforts to ameliorate the
plight of coreligionists in the Sov-
iet Union. An agreement on the
eurrent situation was made at the
meeting. Rabbi Miller, on behalf
of the group, presented to Presi-
dent Johnson through Rostow the
Declaration of Rights for Soviet
Jewry adopted last April at Phila-
delphia. The Declaration lists six
basic needs of Soviet Jewry. The
rabbi noted sympathetic concern
on the part of Rostow for the prob-
lem of Soviet Jewry.
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