The Synagogue Council of America issued a sharp protest today against the Soviet police action in dispersing Jews from the Moscow synagogue. Expressing shock at the action, the SCA stated; “This constitutes an outrageous desecration unprecedented even in the Soviet Union. Coming in the wake of a rash of trials of Soviet Jewish activists it suggests that Soviet authorities are embarked on a new wave of repression that is ominously reminiscent of the Stalinist era.
“The Synagogue Council of America demands that this latest outrage be repudiated by Soviet authorities. A campaign directed at extinguishing what little religious life has survived in that country will trigger world-wide reaction that will dwarf earlier protest activities.”
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