Resolution Adopted by the CCAR
Boycott of the Moscow Olympic Summer Games and the Cessation of Technological and Food Exports to the Soviet Union
Adopted by the CCAR at the 91th Annual Convention of
the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, June 23-26, 1980
The Soviet Union has continually demonstrated its contempt for the sovereignty of
foreign nations and for human, social and religious rights in its own country and
in occupied nations.
In recent months Soviet occupation of Afghanistan has served to increase international
scorn for the Soviet Union’s expansionist policies.
The Central Conference of American Rabbis wholeheartedly concurs with the request
of the President of the United States to boycott the summer Olympic Games to be held
in Moscow this year and to restrain the export of U.S. technology and food to the
Soviet Union until the intervention in Afghanistan is ended.