Fifty-eight Russian Jews signed an open letter to the 28th World Zionist Congress rejecting an attack on the Congress issued yesterday in Moscow by a group of Soviet intellectuals, including Jews. The letter stated, “We too must have the right to express ourselves in the same way as those Jews who were given all the facilities of the communications media to broadcast once again that they have no need of their national existence, of spiritual and cultural ties with the Jewish nation in other lands and with the Jewish national state.” The letter continued, “We are among those Soviet Jews who have decided to bind our future forever together with that of the Jewish State and the Jewish people. For us, taking part in the establishment of a free independent and democratic Israel is a vital necessity and a national duty.”
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