An official of the Committee for Jewish Survival repudiated today charges that the committee had been responsible for false bomb threats at the banquet on March 19 of the Mizrachi Organization of America, an Orthodox Zionist group. The committee is an ad hoc group of Orthodox youth formed to fight the present Law of Return of Israel over the issue of official determination of Jewishness in immigrants to Israel.
Joseph Wilenkin of Brooklyn, general secretary of the committee, said “certain newspapers” had conveyed “rumors and impressions” of committee involvement in the bomb threats. He said “not only are we in no way connected with the bomb scare but we unequivocally condemn any such actions.”
Wilenkin said committee members had distributed at the banquet leaflets urging those present not to be misled by Dr. Joseph Burg, the Israeli Interior Minister, and that they carried signs denouncing Dr. Burg’s refusal to abide by the ruling of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate that he leave Israel’s coalition government on the “Who is a Jew” issue.
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