Religion: The Record

One of Soviet Russia's boasts is that it has wiped out antiSemitism, guaranteed equal rights to its 2,000,000 Jews. In Manhattan last week, free-lance Jewish Scholar Will Herberg analyzed the record:

"In all Russia , . . there is no trace of formal Jewish organization or institutions . . . There is not a single Jewish newspaper or periodical throughout the length and breadth of the Soviet Union. Hebrew is forbidden. Religious instruction and everything that smacks of religious tradition is under the same ban . . . Everything Jewish is either eliminated or...

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