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Washington (JTA) — Jewish
organizational represent-
atives were among the
estimated 75,000 people par-
ticipating in events here last
weekend commemorating
the 30th anniversary of the
historic civil rights march on
Washington.
This year's march itself
was held on Saturday morn-
ing, which limited official
participation by Jewish
groups, which generally do
not take part in events on
the Sabbath.
But the Religious Action
Center of Reform Judaism
was represented Saturday
afternoon at the events at
the Lincoln Memorial.
Rabbi David Saperstein,
the center's director, spoke
Saturday afternoon, and
Rabbi Lynne Landsberg, the
associate director, was one of
several clergy offering in-
vocations as the events as
the memorial began.
In his remarks, Rabbi
Saperstein referred to the
stirring words of Martin
Luther King's "I Have a
Dream" speech, delivered at
the 1963 march being com-
memorated.
Rabbi Saperstein said that
King would not have given
up hope despite the vast
problems facing the world
today.
"Take heart, for if you will
it, the dream lives on. If you
will it and do not despair,
the dream will yet come to
pass," Rabbi Saperstein
said.
Also limiting participation
in march-related activities
was the almost-suffocating
late-August heat and humid-
ity blanketing Washington.
Small crowds turned out
afternoon for two gun- con-
trol rallies organized with
the backing of the American
Jewish Committee.
AJCommittee, together
with African-American
groups here in Washington,
has been coordinating a
series of rallies outside the
National Rifle Association's
headquarters here.
There was one rally on the
Mall, followed by one at the
NRA building.
Jeffrey Weintraub,
AJCommittee's Washington
area director, also noted that
AJCommittee officials were
present at the march events
Saturday afternoon.
And Robert Lifton, presi-
dent of the American Jewish
David Saperstein:
Spoke at the rally.
Congress, said that he sup-
ported the aims of the dem-
onstrators calling for stricter
gun-control laws.
The original 1963 march,
best remembered for King's
speech, ushered in the era of
civil rights and voting rights
legislation backed by the
administration of President
Lyndon Johnson.
Among the themes of this
year's march were job crea-
tion and an end to discrim-
ination.
The Washington Post re-
ported that the Religious Ac-
tion Center was involved in
a controversy surrounding
Louis Farrakhan, the
Nation of Islam minister
regarded by many as anti-
t Semitic.
The Black Muslim min-
ister did not speak at the
march, and organizers said
that he had not been invited
to do so, the Post reported.
The Post reported that
Nation of Islam represent-
atives at the march were
distributing a letter from
Rabbi Saperstein stating
that if the Rev. Farrakhan
spoke, the Religious Action
Center would withdraw its
support for the march.
A Nation of Islam official
was quoted as saying that
the Rev. Farrakhan had
been invited to speak but
that his invitation had been
revoked.
The Religious Action
Center said that the Nation
of Islam had been
distributing a copy of a pri-
vate message sent by fac-
simile to a march organizer
before the center had even
learned that Farrakhan had
not been invited to speak.
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