The international president of B’nai B’rith Women called on the Voice of America today to inform its listeners in Communist countries of the Soviet Union’s discriminatory practices against its Jewish citizens, Mrs. Arthur G. Rosenbluth of Hewlett, N.Y., said that such broadcasts could help remove current restrictive measures imposed on Soviet Jewry “by making Russians of good will aware that Jews receive unequal, unfair and unconstitutional treatment compared with other national groups in the USSR.
Addressing the annual meeting of the B’nai B’rith Women executive board here, Mrs. Rosenbluth said the Voice of America “is in a unique position to help change Soviet policy by broadcasting the truth about Russian Jews to its thousands of listeners.” she noted that protests in Western countries in behalf of Russian Jews, while serving to exert strong moral pressure on the Soviet Union in the international community, “either never reach the ears of the Soviet citizen or are distorted by the Soviet press as cold war propaganda,”
The Voice of America, Mrs. Rosenbluth said, could inform the unknowledgeable Russian of the religious, cultural and communal restrictions imposed on the Soviet Jew and of the discriminatory practices he experiences in education, travel, employment and other areas. It could also help to bring an end to the “vituperative and outright anti-Semitic propaganda” that has appeared in official government and party organs since the Six-Day War, she said.
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