Max Fisher, chairman of the Interorganizational Committee on Soviet Jewish Emigration, said in a statement released Friday: “The study of Soviet Jewish emigration practices undertaken by our Inter-organizational Committee is still under way. Our Committee is not yet ready, therefore, to make any statement and will not be for some time.”
The Committee, which was set up last July in Jerusalem during the general assembly of the Jewish-Agency to examine the situation of Soviet Jewish emigration and the problem of Soviet Jews who, upon arriving in Vienna decide to go to countries other than Israel, comprises Israelis and Americans.
It includes the chairmen and executives of HIAS, the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds (and its Large City Budgeting Conference), Joint Distribution Committee, United Israel Appeal and the United Jewish Appeal, and has been augmented by the participation of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry and the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council.
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