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" .', THE JEWISH POST Thursday, January 14, 1971 .. ' . Page Two ". Page Three -------- -.. - . ._---------. ----- Thursday, January 14, 1m THE JEWISH POST __ , first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party- --'-- "I want my daughter to study Hebrew ... I want Judaosm . Liw~s . my children to learn about King David ... to hear Program at Peretz Dinner in school about the prophet Isaiah ... " Irving Averbach, Chairman; D. M. By MICHAEL WALLACH Today, according to the report, there are no Sovietologists have tried to explain this Nusgart, Co-Chairman; Burton In the week in which the trial began in more than 35 - 40 active rabbis (this probably phenomenon by the virtual and progressive ex . Bass, Publicity; 1. Weinbel'g, Ar Leningrad of several' Riga Jews accused of an includes chazanim and shochetim). A yeshiva clusion of the Jew from Soviet society. Being an . ; rangements; . Cecil Shnier, Decora alleged attempt to hijack an airliner to Israel, opened in Moscow in 1956 had an original enlist outcast in Russian, Ukrainian and other national tions; P. E. Nuzgart, Invitations; a report was published in London which laid hare ment of 35 students, who had dwindled to four . Marshal! Wilder, Social; Bernie by 1963. society, he is thrown back on his Jewish origins. what the real "crime" of these unfortunate men Be that as it may, the courage and persist Katz, Treasurer; Ben Solomon, Cor and women is. As the report says, "doubts have been ex ence of the Soviet Jew in wanting to "go home", resPonding Secretary~· It is that they want to live as Jews, and since pressed whether it ever functioned in any mean both spiritually and physically, are a remarkable For luncheon reservations call the t,hey cannot do so in the Soviet Union, they want ingful sense".
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