The Sub commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, continuing its sessions here today. heard a plea from the World Jewish Congress for launching a thorough study of discrimination in the matter of religious rights and practices. Justice Philip Halpern of Buffalo, the sub commission expert for the United States, had previously urged such a study.
Jews are Interested In that study, declared Dr. Gerhard Jacoby, spokesman here for the World Jewish Congress, because “discrimination against the practices of the Jewish faith has far from disappeared,” There is probably no country in the world where “some governmental discrimination against Jews on religious grounds does not exist, Dr. Jacoby said.
The anti-Jewish discriminations assume different forms, the WJC representative said. In some countries, he declared, “Jews may face difficulties in ritual slaughter, in others they may be compelled to observe the Sabbath of the dominant faith.” Some counties, he said, subject Jewish children to the religious teachings of the “dominant faith” in state schools, while others forbid open worship.
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