The Synagogue Council of America, representing the major rabbinical and congregational organizations of Reform, Conservative and Orthodox Judaism, today proclaimed Yom Kippur-which starts tomorrow evening-as a National Day of Concern for Russian Jews.
Rabbi Theodore L. Adams, chairman of the organization’s international affairs commission, said an urgent letter had been sent to almost 3,000 rabbis throughout the United States, asking them to inform their congregations during Yom Kippur services concerning the “grave situation” confronting Soviet Jewry.
Rabbi Uri Miller, president of the SCA, called on all Jewish organizations and individuals to join forces with the SCA “so that all of us together may pursue an effective program of action that will not allow this century to enter the annals of Jewish history as the age of the destruction of our brother Jews in the USSR.”
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