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  1. The Threat on Jewish Culture in the Soviet Union

    Date(s): October 27, 1966 Location: Moscow, New York Tag(s): Russia, Jewish culture, Anti-Semitism, america, Jewish, Soviet Union 

    In late October of 1966, Mrs. Mortimer Jacobson returned home from the Soviet Union.[1] The head of Hassadah, or Women’s Zionist Organization of America led a group of 24 leaders who had approached the Soviet Union with an offer to send 500 Jewish students on scholarship to Israel. As Mrs. Jacobson put it, she wanted the children to “get a feel for the land of the Bible” something the group believed...