Religious Zionists Urge U.n., Soviet Union to Act Against Anti-semitism

The Religious Zionists of America today adopted a resolution appealing to the United Nations to “express outright opposition to all forms of anti-Semitism and to adopt appropriate measures to stamp it out everywhere.” In another resolution, adopted at the closing session of the organization’s 54th annual convention here, the delegates called on the Soviet Union to cease discriminating against its Jewish citizens, and to restore religious freedom to the 3,000,000 Jews in the USSR.

The delegates also urged the United States Congress to “ban aid to the Arab states if they continue to exercise hostile acts against Israel and world Jewry.” The organization appealed to Congress “to relax the harsh quota system which hinders immigration into the United States from several parts of the world.” In a resolution on the Middle East, the delegates called on “the nations of the world to safeguard the territorial integrity and independence of Israel, which is the bastion of liberty in the Middle East.”

Rabbi Israel Tabak, of Baltimore, Md., vice-president of the RZA, hailed the recent statement submitted to the Ecumenical Council which “repudiated the historic falsehood associating the Jews with the story of the crucifixion.” He said the statement was a “long-awaited vindication of the innocence of the Jew in this theological struggle, and a definite step in the direction of mitigating the tragic incidents of anti-Semitism in the modern world.” Rabbi Mordecai Kirshblum, of New York, was re-elected president for his third consecutive term.