The problems of Jewry in Eastern European countries, particularly Soviet Jewry, are being kept “continuously in mind” by leaders of World Jewish organizations, Barnett Janner, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, told a meeting of the board here. He revealed that during his recent visit to the United States he had conferred with leaders of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany on these matters.
In Poland, he said, the Jewish community is being given more elbow room and contact is again allowed with Jews in other countries. No opportunity for contact between Western Jewry and Jews in Poland, USSR or other Communist countries will be missed, Mr. Janner said. He said that the greatest value in the recent visit to Britain of Rumanian Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen was in the reestablishment of a long-interrupted relationship.
Solomon Teff, chairman of the Board’s Israel committee, told the deputies that although the British Government acknowledges its friendly attitude toward Israel it “rather lags behind public opinion” which, he noted, is friendly toward Israel. He hit the Soviet Union’s sale of arms to the Arab countries, noting that the delivery of submarines to Egypt had caused consternation in Israel.
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