THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
January 16, 1976 15
Britain's Chief Rabbi Attacked for Remarks on Soviet Jewry
JERUSALEM (JTA) — anti-Semitism in the USSR
Chief Rabbi Immanuel Ja- was a sign of -naivete and he
kobovits of Britain has come took issue with the rabbi's
under sharp attack by lead- statement in a Jerusalem
ers of Soviet-Jewish emigre Post interview that life was
groups in Israel and strong, better for Soviet Jews now
if muted, criticism in offi- than under the Czars or
cial circles for his remarks Stalin.
following a nine-day visit to
On Jan. 8 the Chief Rab-
the Soviet Union last month bi's office released a state-
that there was reason to be ment responding. to the
hopeful that the situation of allegations. The state-
Jews there would improve.
ment, by Moshe Davis,
Activists, such as Prof. director of the Chief Rab-
xander Voronel, head of bi's office who accompa-
Soviet Immigrants nied Jakobovits on his
a Committee, claimed Soviet tour, said in part:
the Chief Rabbi had been
"The allegations of naiv-
taken in by clever Soviet ety and superficiality are
propaganda.
absurd and must be consid-
He said a comment attrib- ered against the background
uted to Jakobovits that of the Chief Rabbi's wide ex-
there was no large-scale perience over many years in
official meetings and nego-
tiations with government
figures in several countries
of the world."
The Chief Rabbi's assess-
ment of the situation in the
Soviet Union was also criti-
cized as being "superficial"
inasmuch as he met only
with middle echelon Soviet
officials.
Meanwhile, in London,
the British Communist
Party has published sharp
criticism of Soviet handling
of Jews and dissidents. The
criticism came in an article
by the former leader of the
small British Communist
Party, John Gollan, appear-
ing in Marxism Today, the
party's ideological journal.
This is regarded as par-
ticularly significant on the
eve of the Soviet Party
Congress, especially as the
dissent comes from one of
the more independent-
minded Communist Par-
ties in the West, which is
considered to enjoy some
influence in world Com--
munism.
In New York Stanley H.
Lowell, chairman of the
National Conference on So-
viet Jewry, took issue with
from
President Ford's statement
that Congressional action
relating to the Trade Re-
form Act "has harmed the
opportunity of many to emi-
grate from the Soviet
Union."
from
The President made that
statement Jan. 5 during an
NBC TV program dealing
with U.S. foreign policy in
1976. Without referring to
the Jackson/Vanik Amend-
from
ment, Ford noted that emi-
gration from the USSR was
down in 1975 and observed
that the action of Congress
"was harmful in that re-
gard."
Lowell said the President
was giving a "new interpre-
tation" of what actually oc-
curred and that the actual
events did not square with
Ford's view. He recalled
that on Oct. 18, 1974, after
two years of negotiations,
an exchange of letters took
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tion for the Presidency, ac-
cused President Ford of
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