“The Jews in Yugoslavia, like other groups, are free to organize themselves as religious and cultural communities and to maintain contacts with like-minded groups in other parts of the world,” Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the American Jewish Congress reported today, following his return to the United States from a two-month trip to Yugoslavia, Turkey and Israel.
“There is no restriction on Jews who may wish to emigrate to Israel,” Dr. Goldstein continued. “These are significant phenomena in a Communist regime and may well serve as an example to Russia and her allies as part of the ‘new look’ of Soviet Communism.”
Concerning Israel, Dr. Goldstein revealed that almost 100,000 of the 230,000 Jews living in Morocco have asked to be transferred to the Jewish State. The Israel Government, he noted, has recently authorized drastic new tax measures to raise some of the revenue needed to transfer the 45,000 Moroccan Jews who are expected to arrive during the coming year. “But it is for American Jewry, through the United Jewish Appeal, to provide the initial costs of transportation and the first year’s temporary accommodations which amounts to $1,000 per immigrant,” he observed.
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