Rabbi Theodore L. Adams, president of the Rabbinical Council of America, addressing the annual mid-winter conference of that body which is taking place here, today attacked the Soviet regime for its anti-Jewish drive and charged it with “taking a page out of Hitler’s book.”
“We have long known where this totalitarian philosophy of Communism will lead,” Rabbi Adams said. “We have not been misled by their protestations that anti-Semitism was outlawed by the Soviets for we know that religious observance was banned as was the Hebrew language from use in Russia. We must pray for early redemption of our brethren from their yoke of bondage.”
The State of Israel will gladly admit any Jew permitted to leave Russia or its satellite countries, Rabbi Zev Gold, of Jerusalem, declared in an address to the conference. Rabbi Gold, head of the Department of Education, Culture and Torah of the Jewish Agency who is now visiting in the United States, declared: “Now the Soviet leaders seem to have picked anti-Semitism as an instrumentality and under that pretext are not only punishing Russians who are Jews but also Jews as Jews.”
The Rabbinical Council session was opened with the recitation of a prayer for the health and happiness of President Eisenhower and the success of his Administration.
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