About 200 Jewish youths conducted a Tisha B’av "fast-in" yesterday on the sidewalks across the street from the headquarters of the Soviet mission to the United Nations. Most of the participants–organized by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry–silently sat on low "shiva" stools while a few of them picketed with placards denouncing Soviet anti-Semitism. Part of the demonstration was the display of a 10-panel exhibit depicting the plight of Soviet Jewry.
One of the specific examples of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union cited by the demonstrators was the killing of Rabbi Mozgorshvili, of Souhomi, in the autonomous Soviet region of Abuchazia. The rabbi had been kidnapped; his mutilated body was found hanged in the local Christian cemetery.
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