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Jewish Community in Venezuela Appeals to Government to Help Soviet Jews

March 9, 1970
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Venezuela’s Jewish community appealed to Foreign Minister Aristides Calvani for the Government’s help in ameliorating the condition of Russian Jews. A delegation representing the Confederation De Associaciones Israelias de Venezuela presented Dr. Calvani with a memorandum describing repressive measures taken by Soviet authorities against Jewish cultural and religious activities. They asked him to intervene on behalf of Soviet Jewry through Venezuela’s delegation at the United Nations. Argentine Jewry also protested Arab terrorist attacks on Israeli and foreign air lines serving Israel at a mass meeting organized by the DAIA, the Jewish central representative body. Most of those attending represented Jewish youth groups. Dr. Nehemias Resnitzky, vice president of the DAIA said the terrorist attacks on Israeli airliners in Athens, Munich and Zurich were “the ugly face of a new Nazism and Fascism. Dr. Isaac Goldenberg, president of the Latin American Jewish Congress declared that the international community cannot remain silent.

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