Senate Hears Appeal to Protest Planned Execution of Rabbi in
Russia  Senators Jacob K. Javits and Kenneth B. Keating, both
New York Republicans, today urged the entire free world to arise
in protest against reported plans of the USSR to execute a rabbi
for a so-called economic crime. The death sentence had been
imposed in the Soviet Union on Rabbi B. Gavrilov, Piatygorsk.
Senator Javits told the Senate that the death sentence “caps a
whole series of anti-Jewish acts in the Soviet Union.” He said
he hoped for a “world-wide protest” because this “sometimes has
an effect on the Communists in the Soviet Union.” Sen. Keating
said it was a “horribly exaggerated punishment” for the alleged
offense.