Resolution Adopted by the CCAR
FREEDOM OF RELIGION
Digests of resolutions adopted by the
Central Conference of American Rabbis
between 1889 and 1974
1. There is no evidence that the intensity of discrimination directed against
Jews
and other religions and ethnic groups in the Soviet Union and its satellites
has
abated. Jewish life is still attacked and its few remaining manifestations
religiously
and culturally are ruthlessly curtailed. Ludicrous charges are still being
flung by Soviet
spokesmen in the United Nations and in the Communist press against Jewish
organizations
and their representatives who have sought only to bring a measure of relief to
our brethren behind the Iron Curtain. The CCAR calls upon the leadership of
all freedom-loving
people to help seek an end to the communist denial of religious and cultural
freedom
of religious and ethnic groups and the communist repudiation of the human
rights of individuals. (1953. p. 123)