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Opposite page.- Bernie Glickman,
left, and David Braunstein, hang signs
on the front of the Iranian United
Nations Mission in New York Sunday.
Demonstrators staged a prayer vigil for
the 13 Jews who are imprisoned in Iran
and fiicinog execution for allegedly
`Spying" for Israel and the United States.
a Baptist minister and former
Democratic presidential candidate.
Jackson stood with Jews in Skokie,
Ill., in 1978, when neo-Nazis
marched, Lauder said. The reverend
went to Geneva to confront Soviet
Premier Mikhail Gorbachev about the
plight of Soviet Jewry. And when
President Ronald Reagan laid a
memorial wreath in 1985 at the SS
cemetery in Bitburg, Germany,
Jackson led the protest held at Dachau
concentration camp.
Taking the podium at Park East
Synagogue on Manhattan's Upper East
Side, Jackson, the president and
founder of the Chicago-based ecu-
menical Rainbow/PUSH Coalition,
committed himself to a new interfaith
partnership on behalf of the "moral
issue" of the Iranian Jews.
He told the assembly, which
included Jewish leaders, synagogue
members and the families of two of
the prisoners, that today "we work
together to set the captives free."
In April, Jackson led a delegation of
religious leaders to Yugoslavia, where
they convinced President Slobodan
Milosevic to release three captured.
U.S. soldiers.
Jackson said he already had started
to set up a network of contacts to the
religious leadership in Iran.
Surrounded on the pulpit by the heads
of leading Jewish organizations,
Jackson said "the world needs to
know" of the Iranian Jews' plight.
Although there are still disagree-
ments between Jackson and the Jews
— including a lingering sense by some
that he has failed to sufficiently
renounce anti-Semitism and to dis-
tance himself from controversial fig-
ures such as Nation of Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan — there appeared to
be no opposition to approaching
Jackson on this issue.
Since word of the Iranian arrests
reached U.S. shores over two months
ago, a task force of American Jewish
organizations — working together
with the prisoners' relatives living in
the United States — has launched a
campaign of quiet diplomacy to bring
about the release of the prisoners, who
were being held without being
charged.
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