The Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington is mobilizing support among its 160 constituent organizations in the area to provide food, shelter and religious services for Jewish participants in Saturday’s march for peace in Indo-China. Samuel Sislen, assistant director of the Council, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that shelter and kosher food will be available at the B’nai B’rith headquarters in downtown Washington. He said a medical center staffed by the Medical Committee for Human Rights, a non-sectarian, non-partisan physicians group, will also be located in the B’nai B’rith building. The Religious Action Center of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations will serve as a clearing house for families offering the use of their homes to participants in the peace march, Sislen said. All housing requests will be coordinated through that office. The Reform religious center and the B’nai B’rith building will be the sites of special religious services for the marchers to be conducted at 9:30 Saturday morning. Following the services, the participants will march as a body to the Elipse where they will join the demonstration. Members and friends of Temple Micah in Southeast Washington also plan to join the march. Sislen said the UAHC was encouraging participation in the peace march. Other Jewish organizations are taking no positions, pro or con, but are offering necessities.
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