and at all times are that freedom is neither automatic nor guaranteed, and that there has never been a society in which freedom for the majority was safe when any minority group in that society was oppressed.”
Rabbi Solomon J, Sharfman, president of the Rabbinical Council of America, representing 750 Orthodox rabbis, stated that “Passover celebrates man’s yearning for freedom and its achievement. It is most significant that Israel was reborn ten years ago during this same season of freedom.”
Hadassah president Dr. Miriam K. Freund, in her message, urged the United States Government to make every effort to insure that neither use nor threat of the use of force be allowed to disturb the Middle East, in which the historic battle between freedom and slavery continues today. Moses H. Hoenig, president of the National Council of Young Israel, called United Arab Republic President Nasser “the latest representative of a long line of dynastic Egyptian pharaohs who have repudiated the sacred rights of man and the revered standards of human dignity, honor and elevation.”
In a Passover message to the 74th annual Seder held in the shelter of United Hias Service. Carlos L. Israels, president of the organization, assured the celebrants, many of them recent immigrants, that United Hias “will continue to maintain a strong immigrant aid apparatus throughout the world so long as there are Jewish refugees, escapees, expellees, and persecutees who need our help.”
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