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by James O. Henry Chairman, History Department, Biola College them over to the custody of the Soviet Foreign Ministry. During that time they spoke to embassy officials and submitted protest petitions. The No vosti article said that the Siberian Christians were members of an “ evan gelical f u n d am e n t a l i s t splinter group.” It said they had gone to the embassy “ to express their desire to settle down on Mt. Zion in Israel where ‘Jesus Christ should appear’.” Under State Department regulations, the embassy has no authority to at tempt to send Soviet citizens out of the country. The Novosti article charged that members of the sect in the town of Chernogorsk in the Krasnoyarsk Ter ritory practiced “ savage rites” and had crippled 30 small children. “ Their fanatic parents kept them away from children’s games and ^school, forbade them to read books and dragged them along to their tiring meetings,” the article said. “ The children were brutally beaten for disobedience.” It asserted that “ the most malicious of the sect had been deprived of their parental rights and their children are now being cared for at a boarding school. Be cause Soviet News Agencies are gov- ernmentally-controlled and untrust worthy, it is difficult to know exactly what really happened in this case. A five-pound brick was hurled through a window of the Moscow Central Synagogue recently during holiday ceremonies attended by an overflow congregation of about 6,000 Jews. No one was injured according to a Western newsman who was pres ent. The newsman reported that the brick barely missed him and an Is raeli ambassador, Yosef Tekoah, who was sitting near by. The congrega tion was chanting traditional songs of the festive Jewish holiday of Sim- chat Torah, commemorating the day Moses received the Ten Command ments from God on Mt. Sinai. He said there was a momentary hush when the glass of the side window shat tered and the brick clattered to the floor. Then the singing men resumed “ even louder than before.” Moscow Synagogue Damaged by Brick
Synagogue Found in Ancient Sardis
The discovery of a synagogue at Sardis in western Turkey was report ed recently by the Harvard-Comell University expedition which engaged in excavation in the city where King Croesus of Lydia reigned twenty-five centuries ago. The finding of a mar ble slab showing the menorah, the seven-branched candlestick, a tree, and the shofar, the ram’s horn used to announce the Jewish New Year, has convinced the American archaelo- gists that the large structure was the meeting-place of 'the Jewish commu nity of Sardis. David G. Mitten of Harvard, who has been working on the site for several years, came upon the discovery by accident. He had driven a trench from the main avenue of Sardis in an attempt to find the colonnade of a Roman gymnasium. Instead, there emerged a building nearly 60-feet-wide and 120-feet-long, gorgeously revetted with marble and paved with mosaics, featuring a triple gate between two halls. Projecting between the gates into the western hall stand two marble platforms which may have served as lecterns for readers of the Bible. According to Professor Louis Robert, director of the French Archaeological Institute in Istanbul, the synagogue was built in the third century after Christ, likely between 220 and 250. A Soviet Union press agency dis missed recently the complaints of re ligious persecution lodged by a group of Siberian Christians by describing its leaders as “fanatics and crimi nals.” The Christian group consists of 32 members of an evangelical sect who forced their way into the United States Embassy in Moscow to com plain of religious persecution and to ask for refuge abroad. The denuncia tion of them, contained in an article distributed to foreign correspondents by the Novosti Press Agency, was made before the specific complaints of the evangelical group had become known. The Christians spent about four hours in the embassy compound before United States officials turned Sect at Embassy Decried by Soviet
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