The Standing Committee of the Conference of European Rabbis appealed today to the forthcoming Communist Party congress to meet a “historic opportunity and profound humane obligation to remove the disabilities of the Jewish people of the USSR and to restore the rights to which they are entitled. ” The appeal followed consideration of the position of Russian Jews and an expression of “deep concern.”
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