Some 200 students took part today in a two hour teach-in for Soviet Jewry at City College of New York sponsored by an ad hoc Soviet Jewry Committee. Dennis Prager, representing the Students Struggle for Soviet Jewry, who visited the Soviet Union last summer, told the students that a pervasive fear affected Soviet Jews. He reported that he and a cousin, an Orthodox Jewess, attended services at a synagogue and they were asked to sit in front of the sanctuary. When the girl protested, the congregation president said that while normally, the ban on mixed seating of men and women was observed, the visitors were asked to sit together in front so that they would not talk to the congregants. Other speakers included Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry, and a former Russian Jewess, Mrs. Laya Slavin, who settled in Israel and has come to the United States to testify before the United Nations Human Rights Commission on the status of Soviet Jewry.
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