A bronze plaque on the facade of a synagogue across the street from the Soviet Union’s Mission to the United Nations was dedicated here today, inscribed as “a living monument to the 3,000,000 suffering Jews of the Soviet Union.” The dedicatory ceremonies were conducted at the synagogue, Congregation Zichron Ephraim, by Rabbi Arthur Schneider and Judge Benjamin Gassman, respectively spiritual leader and president of the congregation.
Following the ceremonies, a capacity audience attended a protest meeting against the Soviet anti-Semitism in the synagogue’s sanctuary. Addresses were delivered by Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, Mayor Robert F. Wagner, U. S. Senators Jacob K. Javits and Robert F. Kennedy; Label A. Katz, national president of the B’nai B’rith; and Stanley Lowell, chairman of the New York City Commission on Human Rights. All demanded an end to Soviet denial of the right of Russian Jews to enjoy equal rights in the religious and cultural fields.
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