A plea to Americans of all faiths to join in protesting the Soviet Union’s treatment of its Jews was made here by former Senator Kenneth Keating of New York who addressed a rally of more than 2,000 persons called to protest Soviet discrimination against its Jewish minority. The rally was cosponsored by the Cleveland Jewish Community Federation and the Cleveland Council on Soviet anti-Semitism.
Those taking part in the rally adopted a resolution calling on the Soviet Union to end its denial of basic religious and cultural rights for its Jews. Other speakers at the gathering included Rabbi George B. Lieberman, spiritual leader of the Central Synagogue, Nassau Country; the Very Rev. Hugh E. Dunn, S. J., president of John Carroll University and Rev. B. Bruce Whittemore, executive director of the Council of Churches of Greater Cleveland. Dr. Abe Silverstein, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, presided.
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