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...they held dearest: the great Zionist movement which has already given Jews a city of their own, Tel Aviv, close to historic Jaffa. They heard about Jews in Russia who had turned against Jew, striving to abolish from Russia all traces of Judaism. Cleveland's Rabbi Barnett Robert Brickner, fresh from a trip abroad, told his listeners that leading officials had told him it is "the ambition of the Yevseksia [Jewish branch of the Communist party] that the Jewish people in that country shall be assimilated first and that their identity as jews shall be lost. The present policy...