A resolution protesting against the suppression of religion in Russia, and calling upon the Jews in America to offer special prayers on the Sabbath of March 7, was adopted by a special committee of the Synagogue Council of America, last night, and made public through the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. This Council represents the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, the Rabbinical Council of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Central Conference of American Rabbis, United Synagogue of America, and Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary. The text of the resolution follows:
“The Synagogue Council of America, representing synagogal and rabbinical organizations which comprise millions of Jews of all shades of Judaism, joins with other religious bodies in the United States in solemn protest against the abridgement of religious liberty taking place with increasing violence in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
“In the name of the Jewish people, whose very survival has in every generation been bound up with liberty of conscience, we appeal to the conscience of humanity against the measures which the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is carrying out to suppress Church and Synagogue and to persecute those whose hearts beat with reverence for the Divine Father.
“We call upon our brethren of the House of Israel in this land of freedom to repair to their synagogues on the Sabbath, March seventh, to offer up public prayer that the campaign against religion in Soviet Russia may come to a speedy end, giving way to that brotherhood which is the flowering of God’s spirit on earth.”
It was agreed that, in pursuance of this resolution, the constituent organizations are to be asked to communi-
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