He declared that “let us resolve tonight, you the leaders of American Jewish organizations, and we representing the government of Israel, to revive the struggle on behalf of our brethren in the Soviet Union and to pursue it with the utmost vigor until the Soviet authorities will again open the gates and let our people go.”
Julius Berman, chairman of the Presidents Conference, said the purpose of the some 70-member delegation’s mission was to demonstrate that Jews are “one people that cannot be divided by physical barriers or by the actions of any tyrant.”
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