Jews of Russia, Israel Linked on Simhat Tora (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) the beaches to accommodate the visitors. Prayers for rain were offered in the holiday tradition, and the rains came on schedule ending Israel's dry period that lasts from May to October. Thunder claps and a few large warm drops scattered Tora marchers in Jerusalem. It was a brief shower, but the skies threatened a downpour, and most paraders ran for shelter. Participants in the "Hakafot" in Jerusalem included Mayor Teddy Kollek and Sir Isaac Wolfson of Great Britain. The scroll bearers were led in the first round by Chief Rabbis Isser Untermann and Itzhak Nissim. They were joined by Eliabu Katz, the rabbi of Brati- slava, Czechoslovakia, who is visit- ing here. Two cabinet ministers of the Religious Party, Moshe Sha- piro and Zerach Wahrhaftig, also marched. During the day, marchers from various Jerusalem synagogues car- ried the Tora scrolls to the West Wall. Thousands of out-of-towners visiting the city mingled with Hasidim, Yemenites and North African Jews dancing in the streets. In Tel Aviv, an estimated 30,000 people watched a_parade of Jews LONDON—About 12,000 Russian Jews, mostly young people, danced and sang in front of Moscow's Choral Synagogue Tuesday night in celebration of the Simhat Tora holiday, it was reported here from Moscow. They danced the hora, a tradi- tional folk dance of Israel, while inside the synagogue an overflow crowd estimated at 2,000 sang in Hebrew "Hava Neranenu" ("Let Us Rejoice") to the clapping of hands. Simhat Tora is one of the few occasions that Soviet authorities permit Jews to celebrate in the streets of the capital. The practice dates from the Khrushchev period. In the latter years of the Stalin regime, it was forbidden. (The Bnai Brith Youth Organi- zation published an advertisement in the New York Times Tuesday urging Americans "of all creeds and colors" to demand full reli- gious and cultural freedom for Soviet Jewry. The advertisement noted that while Jews are per- mitted to dance in Moscow on Simhat Tora, "Jewish writers, actors and intellectuals have been purged, Jewish newspapers, thea- ters, seminaries and Hebrew book publishing houses have been closed down." It said, further, that "the world's silence during the years of Hitlerism facilitated the physi- cal destruction of 6,000,000 Euro- pean Jews. Now 3,000,000 survivors face spiritual extinction.") Over 3,000 young American Jews gathered on the Central Park Mall at noon Sunday to begin Simhat Tora celebrations several hours in advance of the holiday. The gathering, and similar ones in 27 other cities of the United States and Canada, was a demon- stration of solidarity with the Jews of Soviet Russia. They were organ- ized by the American Jewish Con- ference on Soviet Jewry. The early Simhat Tora celebra- tions also launched a nationwide drive for 1,000,000 signatures on a petition to U Thant, secretary- general of the United Nations, to urge the Soviet Union "to fulfill the promise of individual dignity and liberty inherent in its own Consti- tution and by its signature on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights." The New York and Washington rallies heard statements from Presidential candidates Hubert H. Humphrey and Richard M. Nixon. Both rallies were taped by the Voice of America for broadcasting to Moscow. In addition, Kol Israel, the Israel state radio,, taped the New York rally and will broadcast parts of it to Russia from Israel. According to an informed source, more than a dozen American Jew- ish youths, many from religious groups, flew to Moscow to be with Russian Jews at the Simhat Tora celebration there, and would tell them of the solidarity displays in the West. The petition addressed to Thant points out that Premier Alexei Kosygin's 1966 promise to let Soviet Jews be reunited with their fami- lies abroad has not been carried out; that Jews in Russia are not permitted to publish devotional' literature or manufacture religious articles; that their cultural, educa- tional and communal institutions have been shut down; and that Jews seeking a higher education in the Soviet Union are restricted by a rigid quota system. Meanwhile, a carnival atmos- phere pervaded most of Israel as tens of thousands of persons paraded or danced in the streets or joined in the traditional "Hakafot"—the march with the Tora scrolls — that ended the Simhat Tora holiday. Seaside resorts were packed with Israeli families taking advantage of the last holiday weekend of autumn. An estimated 20,000 persons con- verged on the resort town of Eilat on the Red Sea, which has only about 1,000 hotel beds. Rows of tents were set up along from various countries wearing their traditional costumes and carrying ornamented Tora scrolls behind brass bands. Prime Min- ister Levi Eshkol, addressing a throng, referred to Israel as a melting pot for all the "tribes of Israel." At an army camp, Israel's chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Chaim Bar Lev, joined in the traditional dancing along with his father and chief chaplain, Gen. Shlomo Goren, Goren. Child Study Center Has Residential Section Friday, October 18,, 1968-19 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Sirhan Defense Is Expected to Challenge Jewish or Pro-Israel Jurors in 'Propaganda Forum' LOS ANGELES (JTA)—A Los The jury will be locked up nightly Angeles judge announced that the to prevent it from being influenc- trial of Sirhan Sirhan, a Jordan- ed by outside elements. ian charged with assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, will be- CARS TO BE DRIVEN gin Dec. 9. Some observers believe To any state. 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