A mass rally protesting Soviet discrimination against Jews will be held in the auditorium of Hunter College here on October 28 to be followed by a protest march past the nearby USSR Mission to the United Nations, it was announced here today.
The rally, in which prominent Catholic and Protestant laymen will participate, will be sponsored by the New York City Conference on Soviet Jewry. An estimated 2,500 persons are expected to crowd the Hunter College auditorium while thousands more will hear the addresses over loudspeakers outside.
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