The government of Jamaica announces that the spiritual leader of the Jewish community there, Ernest Henriques de Souza, is the recipient of the Prime Minister’s Medal of Appreciation in the field of religion.
Olof Rydbeck, a commissioner of the United Nations Reliefs and Works Organization, publicly praises Israel for its treatment of Palestinian refugees in areas under its controi, including partsof Lebanon.
Soviet Jewish Prisoner of Conscience Victor Brailovsky, a 48-year-old computer scientist who was arrested and charged with “circulating fabrications known to be false which defame the Soviet state and social system,” is released after three years of internal exile and rejoins his family in Moscow.
Rumanian Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen says in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in Paris that he hopes President Nicolae Ceausescu will intervene to curtail the anti-Semitic campaign which has been launched in certain press and literary circles in Rumania.
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