Declaration of Human Rights' Anniversary
Mtirked With Appeal to Aid Soviet Jews
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French Leftists Criticize Poland for Bigotry
PARIS (JTA) — A French left-
wing organization condemned this
NEW YORK (JTA)—Two ap- 17. The latest murder victim was dent of the American Jewish Com- week the Polish regime's anti-
mittee in a statement issued for Semitic policies and demanded that
a businessman who died in prison
peals bearing on human rights and
Poland's Communist Party chief,
the plight of Jewry were addressed while jailers tried to extract an Human Rights Day.
to Secretary General U Thant of attempted bribery confession
In Santiago, the 1968 Human Wladyslaw Gomulka, honor the
from him.)
the United Nations, coinciding with
pledge
he made last October that
Rights Award of the World Jewish
the 20th anniversary of the Decla-
"In Egypt where hundreds of Congress was presented to Mrs. the campaign against "Zionists"
rationaf Human Rights.
and
"revisionists"
would not take
Jews still languish in jail—their Luise Schaeffer Del Rio, president
A petition of 250,000 signatures families destitute and unprotected of the Chilean Organization for on an anti-Semitic character.
urging Thant to put the question —the pattern has changed from an the United Nations, at a celebra-
The demand was made in a let-
of the violation of human rights of occasional release to a virtual tion of the anniversary of the ter to Gomulka and to Prime Mini-
Soviet Jewry on the current agenda standstill in this last year. In the issuance of the UN rights declara- ster Jozef Cyrankiewicz of Poland
of the General Assembly was pre- past several months only a few tion. Foreign Minister Gabriel by the Movement Against Anti-
sented to Ambassador J. Russell Jews have been allowed to leave Valdes, Justice Minister Jaime Semitism and Racism, which in the
Wiggins, United States representa- Egypt," Rabbi Schacter said. "In Castillo and Justice Osvaldo B- past has often collaborated with
tive to the UN, by the American Iraq, Jews remain subject to im- lanes, president of the supreme extreme-left-wing bodies.
Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry prisonment, harassment and per- court, were among those address-
The organization expressed its
which asked him to transmit it to secution. Denied their civil rights ing the meeting, climaxing a concern and world anxiety over the
and subject to discriminatory legis- series of observances of Human fate of Polish Jews. It said, "The
Thant.
In the second appeal, the Con- lation, this pitiful and impoverished Rights Year.
anti-Zionist policy of the Polish
ference of Presidents of Major remnant of an historical commu-
The presentation of the award government seems to have over-
Jewish Organizations asked Thant nity is the victim of continuing ex- to Mrs. Schaeffer Del Rio, was lapped into other fields and to
in a letter to renew his efforts to ploitation as new governments— made by Dr. Moises Goldman of have caused a reawakening of anti-
send a UN.representative to Egypt, new ministers of the interior— Buenos Aires, chairman of the Semitism in Poland."
Iraq and Syria to protect the re- exact renewed extortions. In Syria, Lntin Americaa Executive of the
A mass protest demonstration
a whole community has been im-
maining Jewish minorities.
against Poland's treatment of the
World Jewish Congress.
prisoned — herded into a ghetto,
Ambassador Wiggins accepted
'Jew,' deprived of suste-
the Soviet Jewry document from tagged recourse
to relief or hope
Lewis Weinstein, chairman, and nance,
Detroit LI 9-6161
of emigration."
Rabbi Israel Miller, past chair-
Meanwhile, Arthur J. Goldberg
man; of the Conference. He prom-
called
on
the
incoming
Nixon
ad-
ised to make sure that the petition
ministration to encourage ratifica-
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reached Thant.
of the United Nations genocide
He recalled a statement by Mrs. tion
and other human rights conven-
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Jean Picker in the General As- tions pending in the Senate and to
(Tell Us If We're Wrong)
sembly's social, humanitarian and submit to the Senate for approval
Cultural committee, in which she the Convention on Elimination of
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voiced U.S. concern over continued
Racial Discrimination.
anti-Semitic manifestations in the
Goldberg, former ambassador to
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Soviet Union and Poland and pro-
tested against interference with the United Nations as well as Su-
President
Pontiac, Mich.
preme
Court
justice
and
secretary
the freedom of any religion.
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of labor, made his appeal as presi-
The document bears the signa-
tures of persons of all races and
faiths. It is reportedly the first
group of signatures to be sent to
the secretary-general on the sub-
ject of Soviet Jewry. It points out
that "Jews are forbidden to publish
religious literature and cannot
produce devotional articles. Semi-
naries and training schools for
rabbis and religious teachers do
not exist. Jews in the Soviet Union
are not permitted a central or
coordinated structure."
The petition noted further that
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin had
failed to carry out the promise he
made in December, 1966 that Soviet
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Rabbi Herschel Schacter,
Presidents Conference chairman,
said in his letter on Jews in Arab
countries that their situation had
deteriorated since the Six-Day
War "with no relief in sight."
He said there has been a new
wave of terrorism in Iraq in re-
cent weeks with new arrests and
the murder by torture of an Iraqi
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members of the extreme left in
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of Jewish Agency Unit
NEW YORK — Encouraging de-
velopments in the reorganization
and expansion of the department
of Tora education and culture of
the Jewish Agency-American Sec-
tion were reported by Moshe Krone
of Jerusalem, recently appointed
global head of that department,
after three weeks of a six-week
visit to the United States.
Krone, who for the past six years
has been secretary general of the
Religious National Party of Israel,
conferred with leading American
Orthodox personalities, among
them Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik,
the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Is-
rael Miller, Rabbi Herschel Schac-
ter, Dr. Emanuel Rackman and
Rabbi Joseph Lookstein on the fur-
therance of tours to Israel by Orth-
odox educators and students and
the increase of an exchange pro-
gram that brings Israeli educators
to American educational institu-
tions.
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