282 Congressmen Sign an Appeal to Moscow;
Study Mission Sees Dim Outlook for Soviet Jews

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Passover Message in Russian
ly two-thirds of the members of in Leningrad, Rabbi Lubanov is ' prac ticed against Jewis h religious ,
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the U.S. House of Representatives, 86: and Rabbi Israel Schwartz- and cultural life in the USSR.
NEW YORK (JTA) — A special
representing all 50 states of the Matt of Odessa is 54.
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In a cable to the top Cons- Passover message in the Russian
Union, joined last weekend in a
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Major communities like Kiev,
munist Party officials of Bel-
language was beamed Monday ngiht t, ,
Passover eve appeal to the Soviet with a Jewish population of 200,-
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Union to ease religious and cul-
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with 10,000, have no rabbis. No
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natories included Speaker of the
House John McCormack, Massa-
chusetts Democrat; Chairman
Thomas Morgan, Pennsylvania
Democrat, of the House Commit-
tee on Foreign Affairs; House
Minority Leader Gerald Ford of
Michigan, and House Majority
Leader Carl Albert of Oklahoma.

concern to Peter Makartsev,
member of the Council on Reli-
gious Affairs of the Soviet Coun-
cil of Ministers, and suggested
that since the yeshiva in Moscow
is still not functioning, that for
the time being, Jewish students
be given permission to study at
seminaries in Europe, as Rus-

lation."

The rabbi spoke at a pre-Pass-
over news conference sponsored
by the Conference on the Status
of Soviet Jews. The Conference, a
nonsectarian group, is sponsored
by U.S. Supreme Court Justice
William 0. Douglas; Prof. Merle
Fainsod of Harvard University;
(A not her Congressman from
sion Orthodox and Baptist semi- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Pro-
Michigan who sponsored the resolu-
narians are allowed to do," Rab- testant Episcopal Bishop James A.
bi Schneier said.
tion was Jack McDonald, Repub-
Pike; Dr. Eugene ' Rabinovitch,
lican from the 19th District (Liv-
"Mr. Makartsev agreed in prin- president of the Federation of
onia, Farmington).
ciple. He said that it would be Atomic Scientists; Walter Reuther,
The joint statement condemned necessary to comply with the usual president of the United Automo-
"the suppression of Jewish spiri- regulations for such a venture, bile Workers. AFL-CIO; Norman
tual and cultural life in the but thought that there would be Thomas. veteran Socialist leader;
USSR." Last• year 90 of the 100 'no problem.' " and Robert Penn Warren, Pulit-
members of the Senate signed a
The members of the mission said zer Prize novelist and poet.
similar ._statement. This year's that the foundation had offered In his cable, Rabbi Feinberg
statement charged that "The gov- scholarships to approximately 25 spoke of "objective evidence, in-
ernment of the USSR continues to candidates for the rabbinate to eluding much data from Commun-
Pursue a program calculated to study in countries approved by the ist and other sources friendly to
destroy the means of Jewish cul- Soviet Union.
the USSR." indicating an official
tural and Spiritual survival, and
Makartsev was asked whether it Soviet policy of "passive indiffer-
to break the will of Soviet Jewry would be proper for
the members ence and even what seems at
to live as Jews."
of the mission to invite representa- times to be active app-oval of dis-
The signatories called for emi- tives of the religious groups whom crimination."
gration of Jews who want to leave they had visited in the Soviet
out of his "concern for
the Soviet Union. The statement Union to visit them in the United
It wa asnd human
an rights every-
every-
cited the expression of Premier States, specifically if the chief
p
wrec
re
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Rabbi
said, that
Alexei Kosygin in which the Rus- rabbi of Moscow could join with where," •
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he
was
appealing
for
the
Jews
of
sion leader said Jews were free to other religious leaders in a visit
depart from his country to join and again Mr. Makartsev felt that the USSR.
relatives abroad. The Congressmen there would be 'no problem,' Rabbi
Rabbi Feinberg told the Coin-
said "We await translation of those Schneier said.
munist leaders he was "prepared
words into deeds."
The interfaith mission received to go anywhere at any time to dis-
The Congressional expression a "flat declaration" from Makart- cuss with you the problems of
charged that Russia has singled soy, that the new prayer books, Soviet Jewry."
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Jews out from other minority which have been promised for
groups by denying schools, federa- several years, will be available in
A prayer for the "full freedom.
Lions, contacts with Jews abroad, time for the High Holy Days.
honor and pride" of Soviet Jewry
and by inhibiting Jews from pro-
Just as there is a need for
testing by "a systematic campaign prayer books, so also is there
of intimidation."
one for prayer shawls (talesim),
The possibility that the Soviet
the mission emphasized. Noth-

government might drop the de-
ing has been done about the
signation "Jew" from Soviet
manufacture of prayer shawls in
identity documents this year,
the Soviet Union, but the minis-
during the celebrations of the
ter of religious affairs of the
50th anniversary of the Soviet
Latvian Republic, said that the
Revolution, was indicated in
need is being met by "gifts from
Moscow to an American inter-
outside." This was the first indi-
faith study mission sponsored by
cation that gifts of religious ob-
the Appeal of Conscience Foun-
jects from the outside, which
dation, it was reported at a press
had been banned until now,
conference in New York by Rab-
would be permitted and accept-
bi Arthur Schneier, president
ed, the mission stated.
of the foundation and member
The mission found that the
of the mission which just re- monuments on mass graves did
turned from the Soviet Union. . not mention that the Nazi victims

It was the unanimous opinion of buried there were Jews — "this in
the mission, Rabbi Schneier report- contrast to the fact that Jews have
ed. that "the outlook for the reli- on their identification cards the
gious survival of the Soviet Jews designation "Jew," Rabbi Schneier
was dark." In addition to the rah- said. It was at this point that he
bi, the fact-finding mission in-; reported that "there was some in-
cluded Dr. llarold A. Bosley, dication that during this 50th an-
minister of Christ Church Metho- niversary year of the Russian Re-
dist, vice president: Father Daniel volution, the designation "Jew"
Flaherty, executive editor of the might be dropped from the in-
Jesuit .weekly, America; and for- ternal passports."
rner Congressman Francis E. Dorn.
A night and day Passover
secretary-treasurer of the founda-
for Soviet Jewry will be

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In his message, Rabbi Lieber- H
man spoke of the meaning and
significance of Passover and voiced
satisfaction with the news that !W
Russian Jews were permitted this
year to have matzo baked. He
concluded the message with the
traditional hope of "next year in
Jerusalem."

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held in New York from 9 p.m.
"Because of the lack of teachers Saturday to 5:30 p.m. Sunday at
and rabbis and, especially the lack Hammarskjold Plaza
in the
of educational facilities to train shadow of the United Nations.
such religious leaders, Judaism as
Thirty-eight Jewish communal,
Thirty-eight
a religion is pathetically weak and religious and youth groups are

growing weaker," Rabbi Schneier
told the newsmen at the press con-
ference which took place in the
Overseas Press Club.
"We get sonic notion of the
depth of despair in which they
operate when we realize that the
lay members of the synagogue
councils are resigned to the fact
that they will have to learn to

participating in this special demon-
,tration.
Rabbi Jacob Goldberg, New York
Coordinating Committee chairman,
announced that similar vigils would
be held simultaneously in 15 other
cities in the U.S.: Atlanta. Boston.
Camden. Charleston, Cincinnati,
Detroit, (story page 8) Hartford,
operate under lay leadership unless Highland Park, Indianapolis,
some arrangements can be worked Newark, New Brunswick, N.J., New
Orleans, Springfield, Mass., Utica,
out for the training of rabbis."
Presently there are only three N.Y.. and Waterbury, Conn.
Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg of
rabbis—one each in Moscow, Len-
ingrad and Odessa—for the entire Toronto, an outspoken critic of
American
policy in Vietnam who
Jewish community in the European
part of the Soviet Union where met with Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi
most of the 3,000,000 Jews reside. last January called Monday on the
The rabbi in Moscow, Rabbi Ye- Soviet Union. to lift the "hostile

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