Rabbinical Council of America, Orthodox Rabbinical body with 600 members in the United States and Canada, today declared the Sabbath of February 5 as a national day of mourning for the two Jews who were executed in Egypt this week. Memorial services will be recited in all allied congregations.
Rabbi David B. Hollander, national president, made public a resolution adopted by the organization which reads: “The Rabbinical Council of America received with profound grief and sorrow the shocking news of the intemperate action by the military dictatorship in Egypt in carrying out the brutal verdict against Dr. Moshe Marzuk and Shmuel Azzar. We strongly condemn the inhuman methods utilized in extorting confessions from these people contrary to all accepted procedures of democratic justice.”
In Canada, the Canadian Jewish Congress and the United Zionist Council of Canada today voiced their sense of “deep outrage” at the execution by the Government of Egypt of the two Jews. The two organizations declared that “the Jewish community of Canada could not remain indifferent to the callous behaviour of the Egyptian authorities in carrying out the sentences which went far beyond the publicized necessities of the case and the supposed demand of Egyptian security.”
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