The U. S. Information Agency charged today that a new anti-religious campaign against Judaism and other faiths has been ordered by the Kremlin in the USSR and in the Soviet satellite states. The newspaper “Krasny Mayak,” in Khabarovsk Territory, Siberia, was quoted as attacking the Jewish rite of circumcision.
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