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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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Friday, May 21, IMS
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Passover Review
In 10 European countries where
matzoh and other Passover sup
plies were either unavailable or
in short supply, the Joint Distri
bution Committee furnished 665,-
000 pounds of matzoh and other
Passover needs. Charles H. Jor
dan, JDCs director-general for
Europe, told the Jewish Telegra
phic Agency In Geneva that the
shipments, largest in 13 years,
would make possible full observ-
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One of JDC’s major recipients
was the French Jewish commun
ity which is still struggling to
meet the needs of the huge in
flux of refugees from North
Africa. Mr. Jordan also reported
that, because of a breakdown in
local sources of supply, the Orth
odox community of 1,800 Jews in
Melilla, Spanish Morocco appeal
ed to the JDC and received 13,-
000 pounds of matzoh. In other
parts of Morocco and Algeria,
Tunisia, and Iran, the JDC made
special cash grants to enable pov
erty-stricken Jews to buy Pass-
over foods locally. In Poland,
matzoh has been baked by the
religious community with equip
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ment provided by the JDC. Needy
Polish Jews also were given
lunds to buy matzoh.
But while relative freedom
lrom reUgious persecution was
being enjoyed by Jews in most
of the countries behind the Iron
Curtain—not only in Poland but
also in Hungary, Rumania, Czech
oslovakia and Bulgaria—the anti-
Jewish discriminations were
pointed up especially during
Passover for the Russian Jewish
population.
The American Jewish Confer
ence on Soviet Jewry, comprising
24 national Jewish organizations,
dealt with that subject in a spec
ial Passover statement issued by
the chairman of the Conference
steering committee, Label A.
Katz. He is also national presi
dent of B’nai B’rith. The Confer
ence statement was supplemented
by a lengthy special report, en
titled “The Soviet Assault on
Passover,” detailing the history
of Soviet restrictions on matzoh
from 1957 to 1965. Mr. Katz said:
“As a result of official Soviet
policy, the vast majority of So-
viet Jews will not have matzoh
again this year. This means that
they are again forcibly deprived
of the chief means of observing
Passover properly. Amer i c a n
Jewry protests this discrimina
tory deprivation with all the
force at its command.”
Noting that, “consistent, sys
tematic, worldwide protests” had
apparently caused the Soviet
Government to shift its policy on
Passover observance, by making
this year’s ban on matzoh “less
than total,” Mr. Katz voiced
gratification over this slight
change in policy. But he noted
that the change affects Jewish re
ligious congregations in only
three “showcase cities”—Moscow,
Leningrad and Odessa. Even
there, he pointed out, many dif
ficulties have been put in the way
of those Jews wanting matzoh,
and the costs are “exorbitant.”
Except for Odessa, he stated,
the matzoh ban remained in
force throughout the Ukraine, af
fecting hundreds of thousands of
Jews all over that region, in
cluding the capital Kiev, where
the congregation’s request for a
matzoh-baking permit had been
denied. He charged that: “Matzoh
baking has been prohibited this
year in Minsk, capital of Byelo
russia; there is no sign of matzoh
baking in any of the Baltic coun
tries; in Riga, capital of Latvia,
arbitrary obstacles prevented im
plementation of the permit which
the congregation ostensibly re
ceived; in Moldavia, which has
a sizable Jewish population, es
pecially in its-capital of Kishinev,
no matzoh baking is allowed.”
Mr. Katz’s belief that only
worldwide protests had brought
about the slight shift in the So
viet Government’s anti-matzoh
policy this year was supported
by a statement made in an inter
view here by Associate Supreme
Court Justice Arthur J. Gold
berg. “The limited action of the
Soviet Government in regard to
its permission for the baking of
matzoh, at least in Moscow,” he
said, “is certainly action in res
ponse to world opinion. Facts
show that there is stall anti-Sem
itism in the Soviet Union, and
anti-Jewish actions by the Gov
ernment persist, in spite of So
viet denials.”
WASHINGTON (JTA)— State
Department spokesman Robert
McCloskey said that the Depart-
ent had decided not to object to
the Ribicoff resolution which pro
vides for Congressional condem
nation of Soviet anti-Semitism.
It was learned that the State De
partment, in view of criticism of
its opposition to the Ribicoff res
olution, noted the deterioration
in American-Soviet relations and
felt that the previous reasons for
United States opposition to the
resolution no longer applied.
It has now been decided that,
while the resolution may not
have a significant effect, the De
partment feels that it can no
longer object. Mr McCloskey
said that the Department’s views
were contained in a letter by As
sistant Secretary of State Douglas
MacArthur 2nd, to Chairman J.
eign Relations Committee, who
had requested the current posi
tion on the pending measure. Mr.
MacArthur stated that, after
weighing possible advantages
against disadvantages, it had
been decided not to object to
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