Two New York state legislators from this district introduced in the State Legislature today a joint resolution, denouncing Soviet bias against Russian Jews. The measure was presented in fulfilment of pledges made at a mass rally here last Sunday, attended by 1, 000 persons, including spokesmen for the Jewish, Catholic and Protestant faiths.
State Sen. Max Berking, a Democrat, and Assemblyman Anthony Gioffre, a Republican, said their resolution also calls on President Johnson and the Congress to take action against such Soviet practices as closing of synagogues, Jewish schools and cemeteries in the Soviet Union. At the rally Rep. Ogden Reid, a Republican, also denounced persecution of Russian Jews as “a shocking violation of the United Nations charter” and said he would introduce in the House of Representatives a “sense of Congress” resolution calling on the Soviet Government to permit the free exercise of religion and the pursuit of culture by Jews and all others within its borders.”
The rally, which drew participants from three Westchester communities–Port Chester, Rye, and Harrison–and from Greenwich, Conn., was sponsored by the Jewish Community Council of Port Chester and Rye, and held at the Kneses Tifereth Israel synagogue here.
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