Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg last night condemned the “vigorous anti-Jewish policy” pursued by the Soviet Union. Addressing a dinner at which Mr. Goldberg was presented with the “Man of the Year Award” by the Men’s Club of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, the Labor Secretary said the Russians have closed synagogues, turned them into grain, warehouses, confiscated Jewish funds, banned ritual and private prayer meetings, and destroyed memorials and cemeteries.
Mr. Goldberg said reliable reports of Russian anti-Semitism have been received despite “the protestations of the Soviets that the Jewish people have voluntarily integrated themselves in Soviet culture.” The Jewish people in the Soviet Union face political and social exclusion, he declared. “They are denied in general even those small rights and advantages granted to other minority groups in Russia. They are isolated as a matter of public policy,” Mr. Goldberg stressed.
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