Category: Timeline
ACF brings first interfaith delegation from Soviet Union to US.
Members of the delegation include: Metropolitan Juvenaly, Chairman Foreign Relations Department, Moscow Patriarchate of the..Read More
Interfaith leadership of Appeal of Conscience Foundation welcomes ACF honorees Governor W. Averell Harriman and Tatsuro Goto.
1976 – New York
ACF delegation to USSR negotiates the printing of Five Books of Moses in Russian in the Soviet Union. Approval received from Viktor N. Titov, newly appointed Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council for Religious Affairs. Authorization granted to reprint version published in Vilnius in 1914
Rabbi Arthur Schneier, Bishop Silas, Head of largest Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in US and Chief..Read More
ACF Delegation to USSR. ACF negotiates the study of 10 more rabbinical students in Hungary to later return to USSR after their studies
Rabbi Arthur Schneier and Father Thurston Davis, SJ. The agreement of the 10 students addresses..Read More
2 Rabbinical Students chosen in USSR to Study in Seminary in Hungary – leave Moscow via train to Hungary
Students: Haim Levitis (age 23), Adolf Shayevich (age 36), a graduate engineer from Birobijan. After..Read More
USSR imposes education fees for Jews wanted to emigrate out of the USSR to Israel
Soviets defend the tax stated they are entilted to a refund for the costs of..Read More
ACF Delegation travels to Romania for the dedication of the Teatron 80 cobalt machine for the treatment of cancer in Cluj, Romania a gift of the American Flood Relief Committee (dedication 6/25/72).
6/21-26 1972 The machine, ordered from Atomic Energy of Canada is the only one of..Read More
ACF brings delegation from USSR to US
Delegation Members include: MetropolitanNikodim of Leningrad and Novograd; VP Aliabkarov of Muslim Organizations in USSR;..Read More
Eleven Soviet Citizens, 9 of them Jews were found guilty of treason in Leningrad for the attempted hijacking of a plane.
Two of the eleven were sentenced to death by a firing squad. After an outcry..Read More
ACF Delegation travels to Romania for Relief of flood-stricken regions.
August 27-31, 1970 Met with President Nicolae Ceausescu regarding concerns of flood. The committee recommended..Read More
ACF first delegation to Belfast and Dublin Ireland followed by meetings in London
Rabbi Arthur Schneier, Ambassador Duke, Father Campion, Dr. David HC Read established relationships with religious..Read More