I hope this letter finds you and your family in the very best of health. I suppose that the weather in your part of the world during this season is quite uncomfortable, and so I am sorry to have to burden you with this request. However, I am confident you will appreciate the gravity of the issue which causes me to approach you at this time. I am sure you are acquainted with the dreadful condition of our fellow Jews behind the Iron Curtain. Russian Jewry, which numbers in the millions, is sustaining a wave of virulent anti-Semitism which is all the more pernicious because it is hypocritically denied by Soviet officials. I know that as a responsible leader of your own Jewish community, you sense, as I do, the obligation to do whatever is possible to help our co-religionists.I have thought of this for a long time, as I am sure many others have, and I knew that there are no quick and easy solutions. Yet I feel strongly that we at least something could be done towards alleviating the conditions of Russian Jewry if public opinion were aroused throughout the world I kiiw that Js one who is close to the highest levels of government in India, your voice will be heard and given careful consideration. I believe that you are in a position to do more than most ordinary Jews can. None of us dare be silent at such crucial times in our history when the lives and liberty of so many Jews are at stake. I implore you to make representations to the government to communicate directly to the Soviets their distress at what is happening Further, I most urgently recommend that the outstanding dignitaries of Indian cultural life be alerted to the problem. Poets, philosophers, humanitarians, writers and journalists should make their voices heard publicly. You are He doubt- aware of the fact that Indian public opinion counts very much throughout the world I know that the task will not be easy; but neither will it be easy to avoid the adverse judgment of history if we fail to rise to the occasi…