cate the decision of the Synagogue Council to their member societies, urging them to carry out the recommendation regarding special services on the Sabbath of March 7.
The special committee appointed by the Synagogue Council, which took these steps, consists of S. Herbert Golden, Chairman, and Rabbis Herbert S. Goldstein, Isaac Landmann, David de Sola Pool, and Jonah Wise. The officers of the Synagogue Council are Rabbi Elias L. Solomon, President, Rabbi Samuel Schulman and Albert Wald, vice-chairmen, Rabbi Israel Goldstein, honorary secretary, Ben Altheimer, treasurer, and Rabbi J. B. Pollak, secretary.
A call for an extraordinary conference of representatives of national and central Jewish organizations to be held at the Hotel Governor Clinton Wednesday evening, February 26, to consider plans for the organization of a nation-wide protest against the suppression of the Jewish and other religions in Russia by the Soviet Government, was issued last night by Bernard S. Deutsch, president of the American Jewish Congress, and Carl Sherman, chairman of the Special Committee on Russia of the organization. The conference call followed a meeting yesterday of the Sub-Committee to Act on Religious Repressions in Russia and was made to all the organizations taking part in the Special Conference held December 8 in protest against Soviet persecution of Jewish leaders.
At the conference plans will be presented for the organization of a nation-wide mass demonstration in which every Jewish community and every synagogue is to take part to express the protest of American Jewry against the suppression and persecution of religious groups by the Soviet Government.
It is expected that among those who will attend the conference will be prominent Jewish communal leaders from New York and other cities.
Among the members of the special committee which, together with the officers of the American Jewish Congress, is making arrangements for the extraordinary conference are: Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Hon. Nathan D. Perlman, Rabbi Moses Hyamson, Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, Rabbi Eliezer Silver, Israel N. Thurman, Jacob Leichtman, L. M. Rabinowitz, Morris Weinberg. Bernard G. Richards, Rabbi Max Raisin, Harry Roggen and Baruch Zuckerman.
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