There is strong anti-Semitic sentiment in the Ukraine, but no anti-Semitism of any significance elsewhere in the USSR, members of a Histadrut delegation which recently returned from the Soviet Union reported today to a meeting of the Histadrut executive. The delegation attended an international conference of cooperative movements held in the Soviet capital.
It was also reported that while the Histadrut delegates were in the Ukraine, 25,000 people joined them in Kol Nidre prayers at Yom Kippur. Though it was asserted that there is no campaign against religion in the USSR, the delegates continued, on the eve of Yom Kippur Radio Kiev commented on the “reactionary character of the Jewish religion.”
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