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U.S. Students Protest; Protocols Revived
In Most Recent Series of Soviet Outrages

NCRAC Sees Danger in
Ending Program for Poor

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, November 10, 1967-9

NEW YORK (JTA)—The House
of Representatives was criticized
Tuesday in a statement by the
of fine
USSR against Soviet Jewry. Dane- Jewish conspiracy for world
National Community Relations Ad-
mg in front of the embassy, the
imported
worsteds
domination.
visory Council for threatening to
demonstrators sang Hebrew songs
This is the tone of "Zionism, a "dismantle the Office of Economic
tailored by
affirming that "the people of Tool of Imperialism," an article Opportunity and scuttle the anti-
Israel live.")
by Trofin Kichko that appeared in poverty program." The NCRAC
Meanwhile, it was learned that the Oct. 4 edition of Komsomol- acted on behalf of its nine national
the last remaining synagogue in
skoye Znamaya, official publica- Jewith organizational affiliates
Tallin, capital of Estonia, has
tion of the Young Communist and 81 local Jewish community
been confiscated by Soviet au-
League of the Ukraine. Kichko, the councils that are council members.
thorities. But owing to the pres-
American Jewish-Committee point-
The NCRAC declared that Pres-
sure of public opinion, a small,
ed out in a report on the article,
old wooden but on the outskirts
was the author of a viciously anti- ident Johnson's request for funds
Regularly Sold at $139.50
of the city has been made avail-
Semitic book, "Judaism Without for the anti-poverty program was
able to Tallin's Jewish commun-
Embellishment," which was pub- "modest to begin with" and said
SPECIALLY
ity of some 4500 persons.
Newest stripes
lished in 1963 but withdrawn by that efforts to cut the funding
PRICED
and plaids with &sr
Reports that the Soviet authori- Soviet authorities after it aroused "must be quickly repelled if the
a
world-wide
storm
of
protest.
subtle
suppression'?
ties were planning to seize the
war against poverty is not to be
synagogue, located at 23 Kretsvalt-
The selection of Oct. 4, Rosh turned into a war against the poor."
seh St. in the center of Tallin, Hashana, for publication of the
The Jewish organizations warned
first reached the Western press in article appears to have been no
September 1965. The building be- coincidence. Another newspaper, that "those who have been crying
Fine Clothing for Over 30 Years
havoc
about metropolitan riots
longed to the Jewish community Komsomolskaya Pravda, daily
15200 W. 7 MILE RD.
which had once been one of the organ of the Communist Youth and now contribute to the scuttling
of the anti-poverty program will
3 Blocks East of Greenfield
most notable in Eastern Europe. League in Moscow, selected the
Corner of Sussex
The bitter anti-Israel campaign same date for publication of an ar- have to bear a major share of the
responsibility for further and even
Open Daily 94
which had been stepped up in the ticle called "Lackeys at Beck and
Monday and Thursday to 9
more disruptive disorders, if they
Soviet press right after last June's Call," by Ye. Yevseyev. The arti- have their way in Congress."
Bankard and Security
Six-Day War is not abating but, cle was a 3,000 word denunciation
in fact, growing more virulent and of American Jewry as part of "an
taking on unmistakeable tones of international Zionist Conspiracy."
racial anti-Semitism, with the ap-
Jewish Minorities Research,
proval if not the outright collusion which, among other things, moni-
of the highest Soviet authorities.
tors the Soviet press, pointed out
ONLY
that Komsomolskaya Pravda is
This was the consensus of vari-
one of the most authoritative and
ous organizations and groups in
influential
Soviet
newspapers,
New York which have made a
ranking behind only Pravda,
detailed study of the Soviet gov-
Izvestia and possibly Trud."
ernment-controlled press. They
Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of
expressed particular alarm over
the American Jewish Conference
a recent spate of articles which
appear to be nothing less than on Soviet Jewry, a caalition of 25
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an updating of the long discredit-
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tions, saw in this and similar ar-
ed Protocols of the Elders of
ticles an attempt "to terrorize the
Zion, a notorious forgery that
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Soviet Jews to avoid any signs of
originated in Czarist Russia.
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affinity with Jews outside the
The Protocols alleged a global
Soviet Union, and serve as a warn-
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Jews for the 50th anniversary. The
rabbi was quoted as replying: "In-
finite love for the Soviet Mother
Country that gave us freedom and
happiness."
The embassy's release was one
of a series that sought to quiet the
outcry in world public opinion be-
cause of the anti-Jewish and anti-
Israel campaign in Russia, and
mounting evidence of the systema-
tic destruction of Russian Judaism
as a faith and culture.
In New York, a demand that
the Soviet government "break
the chains of oppression of Soviet
UN Mission headquarters during
its celebration.
The youngsters, draped in
prayer shawls, sat an mourning
benches in symbolic protest
against the treatment of Jews in
the USSR, chanted Hebrew songs
and read recitations.
The demonstration was sponsor-
ed by the Student Struggle for
Soviet Jewry and the Center for
Russian Jewry, which demanded
the release of thousands of Jews
confined to Soviet forced labor
camps merely because they de-
sire to live as Jews. They also de-
manded that the Soviet authorities
"grant the instifotions of a free
people to Soviet Jewry" and fulfill
Premier Kosygin's public promise
made in Paris in December 1966
to permit Soviet Jews to be re-
united with their families."
Another demand was that the am-
nesty for criminals given by Mos-
cow to Soviet "thieves and swind-
lers" be extended to "The thou-
sands of Jews imprisoned only be-
cause they are Jews."
The Soviet Mission to the United
Nations barred all Jewish journal-
ists, including representatives of
American and foreign newspapers,
from its celebration. The absence
of Jewish correspondents from the Pennsylvania Aid Bill
invitation list regardless of their
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — The
nationality or the media they rep- Pennsylvania Committee for Legis-
resent, was considered unprece- lation to Aid Hebrew Day Schools,
dented by observers here and at an organization composed of Or-
the UN. In past years, Israeli thodox rabbis and laymen and
newspapermen and correspondents nfficials of the Beth Jacob School
for several Jewish newspapers here, have come out in support
were invited to the annual Soviet of the Mullen Bill now pending in
Mission celebrations.
the state's general assembly. The
(In Ottawa, 600 young Jews from bill would bypass existing consti-
Montreal and Ottawa staged a tutional provisions against use of
demonstration in front of the state funds for religious schools
Soviet Embassy in the Canadian by setting up an authority to pro-
capital protesting against "spiri- vide educational services under
tual genocide" inflicted by the contract.

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