12—Friday, December 16, 1966
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
5,000 New Yorkers Protest Against Russ i a' s Jewish Policy
blame the mass
NEW YORK (JTA)—Five thou- 1
sand New Yorkers participated
here Sunday in a march and rally
protesting against Soviet discrimi
nations against Russian Jewry,
culminated by an address by the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,
Negro leader.
The New York meeting, at
Cooper Union Hall, was one of sim-
ilar actions in 32 other American
communities. involving an esti-
mated 100,000 persons. The rallies
and marches were linked both to
Ilanuka and Human Rights Day, ob-
served by the United Nations.
Dr. King spoke from his home
in Atlanta, Ga., over a telephone
hook-up that reached all of the
various meetings, sponsored by the
American Jewish Conference on '
So vi et Jewry. Addressing the
Cooper Union meeting were also
Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of
the conference, and Rabbi Jacob
Goldberg, chairman of the New
York City Coordinating Committee
for Soviet Jewry.
In his address to the rally, Dr.
King stressed that "a denial of
human rights anywhere is a
threat to every man every-
where." He said that while Jews
in Russia are not being killed as
in Nazi Germany, they are "fac-
ing every day a kind of spiritual
and cultural genocide."
"We must continue to make our
voices heard. The world has a right
to remind Russia it is repressing
a cultural heritage that is part
of world property," he stated.
New York Mayor John V. Lind-
say declared in a statement on the
occasion: "It is a matter of concern
to me, personally and officially,
that human rights are being with-
held from the Jewish population
of the Soviet Union, even as these
rights are guaranteed under the
UN's Universal Declaration of Hu-
man Rights as well as under the
constitution of the USSR."
Last week more than 2,000 stu-
dents and facult. members of all
faiths and representing a number
of institutions of higher learning
m the New York area braved the ,
threat of rain to take part in a
Torchlight Procession for Soviet
Jewry sponsored by the Columbia
University Committee On Soviet
Jewry On the Columbia campus. i
The procession marked the
start of a "campaign of con-
cern" for the Jews of the USSR !
which was launched by the !
sounding of the shofar.
Among the institutions and or-
ganizations whose students. faculty
or members participated in the
procession were the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary of A meric a,
Union Theological Seminary. Gen-
eral Theological Seminary. Yeshiva
University, Hebrew Union College-
Jewish Institute of Religion, City
University, New York University,
Hunter College, Queens College,
Yavneh, the National Religious
Jewish Students Association and
the Student Zionist Organization.
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Another Soviet Paper
Quotes Kosygin on
Reunification Pledge
LONDON (JTA) — Following
articles in Pravda and the Izvestia,
the two leading Soviet newspapers,
:he Komsomolskaya Pravda, organ
of the Young Communists, also car-
ried the text of Premier Kosygin's
-tatement made during his recent
visit in Paris in which he said,
Dec.. 3. that the Soviet government
will permit reunification of fami-
lies by permitting Soviet citizens
to go abroad to join family mem-
bers in other countries.
The text of Premier Kosygin's
,tatement as quoted in the Soviet
newspapers, reads: "As to reunifi-
cation of families, if some families
want for come together, or even
leave the Soviet Union. the way is
open to them and no problem
arises here.''
This official version of Kosy-
gin's remarks differs from the
way' a interpreter rendered
them at the l'aris news conference.
There the premier was quoted as
Israeli Youth Arrested
on Charge of Espionage
(Direct JTA Telegraph
to The Jewish News) Wire
tushenko failed to
TEL AVIV—A 2l-year-old Jeru-
having said: "We will make it . S
... oviet . Yiddish Editor
massacre of , Jews in the Kiev ra- salem youth, a Jew, who was ar-
easy. We will open the road for
vine
of
Babi
Yar
squarely
on
the
rested
immediately aftor his return
E x p la i ns Failure to Print
those who want to leave."
from Jordan on charges of espion-
Nazis.
Yevtushenko's Babi Yar'
Here on a visit, Vergelis held a age, told police Tuesday that he
LONDON (JTA) — Aaron Ver-
2 NY Teacher Seminaries ' gelis, editor of the Soviet Yiddish press conference at which he also had gone to Jordan only for rea-
that the Soviet authorities are sons of economic hardship.
to Join; Plans Announced monthly "Sovietish Heimland," said
According to police, Shaul Al-.
doing their best "to assure the
NEW YORK (JTA) — Plans for published in Moscow. Monday at-
survival of Yiddish" among the fassi, who was unable to get a
the merger of the Herzliah Het). tempted to explain here why he
job after his release from military
in the Soviet Union.
rew Teachers Institute and the failed to publish the famous poem Jews
service, crossed into Jordan and
"Babi
Yar"
by
the
Soviet
poet
However,
he
added,
the
failure
Jewish Teachers Seminary were
returned with instructions to col-
announced Monday by Mendel Ha- Yevgeny Yevtushenko devoted to 1 of Jewish parents to require their
Jews children to be taught in a Yiddish lect security information for the
ber and Jacob Katzman, presidents
Jordanians. He will be tried soon.
in the
outskirts of
of the two respective institutions killed
the tens
of thousands
of Kiev school is to be blamed for the de in Jerusalem District Court.
mice of Yiddish. "We seek a way
, under Nazi occupation.
of higher Jewish learning.
The Yiddish editor said that he to assure the survival of Yiddish,
In order to bring the two did
Dishonesty
not publish this epic poem— and our search is not fruitless. We
Who purposely cheats his friend,
schools under the same academic
which calls for eradication of anti- seek to make it possible for all would cheat
his God. —Lavater
direction, an initial step was
Semitism and has been translated who wish to study Yiddish to do
in many languages—because Yev- , so," he said.
taken this year with the appoint-
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In announcing the projected of Rhode Island, told the annual I in the ecumenical movement in
this country and the establishment
merger, it was explained that both Inter-religious Institute at Loyola this
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The joint effort and pooling of chief stumbling block in the path main the sole concern of the elite • •
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