The Senate Judiciary Committee will schedule, probably next February, hearings on the situation involving the arrest and prosecution of rabbis protesting the treatment of Soviet Jews outside the Soviet Embassy in Washington, it was reported today.
According to Rabbi Allan Meyerowitz, Soviet Jewry chairman of the Rabbinical Assembly, Sen, Steven Symms (R. Idaho), a committee member, has informed Edwin Meese, the attorney general, of the committee’s intentions to review the arrests and the District of Columbia statute prohibiting demonstrations within 500 feet of the Embassy.
Five rabbis on Tuesday concluded serving 12 days of a 15-day sentence imposed for demonstrating within 500 feet of the Embassy. The five rabbis chose to do time rather than accept a suspended sentence, probation and a fine as the 37 other rabbis and Lutheran minister, who were tried and convicted of the same offense, did.
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