Three American rabbis joined today with eight Protestant clergymen and a Buddhist in a denunciation of the South Vietnam Government for its religious persecution of the country’s Buddhists.
Rabbis Julius Mark, Edward Klein and Judah Cahn were among the signatures of a full-page advertisement in the New York Times which reproduced a photograph of a Buddhist priest who committed suicide by fire as a protest against the Government’s policies.
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