An appeal to world Jewry to continue its pressure in behalf of Soviet Jewry and “not to forget the plight of our brethren in the Soviet Union” was voiced here tonight at the annual conference of the Defense Association for Help for the Jews of Russia.
The conference urged that world Jewry ask the Soviet Union to let its Jews emigrate, and to release all Jews arrested for Zionist activities. Among the speakers at the parley were Haim Shurer, editor of Davar, who recently toured the USSR, and Israel poet David Shimoni.
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