The Military Chaplains Association, composed of 300 chaplains from the United States armed forces, representing all faiths, adopted unanimously today a resolution calling on the Government of the Soviet Union to grant full cultural and religious freedoms to all peoples in the USSR, mentioning specifically the situation of Jews in Russia. The association today concluded its 41st annual convention held here.
The resolution, introduced by Capt. Shimon Pascow, a rabbi serving as a chaplain on the West Coast, declared: “Whereas we the members of the Military Chaplains Association are concerned with the religious and cultural rights of people everywhere, we call upon the Government of the Soviet Union to grant full cultural and religious freedom to all its people. We note with dismay the suppression of Judaism in the Soviet Union, and call upon that government to permit the opening of Jewish religious schools and synagogues, and permit the publishing of religious texts so that the Jewish people will be able to live in accordance with its historic religious traditions.”
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