Zionist Federations Urged to Enlist Public Support on Behalf of Soviet Jews

The Jewish Agency Executive called on Zionist Federations all over the world today to enlist the support of public bodies, organizations and prominent individuals in their respective countries in a protest movement on behalf of Soviet Jews. (Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress, and Jewish leaders from Europe, North and South America and Israel met at Nice today for a three-day meeting of the WJC’s governing council on the subject of the situation of Jews in the Soviet Union. The council adopted a declaration which stated that, “The trials that are now taking place are clear evidence of the calculated campaign of the Soviet authorities to frustrate the natural and legitimate exercise by Soviet Jews of their right to maintain their national Jewish identity and to participate in the rebuilding of their ancient homeland in Israel.”)