Nearly 5,000 people took a five-mile stroll...

Nearly 5,000 people took a five-mile stroll along the streets of the Fairfax district of Los Angeles to begin the 12th annual Jewish Walk Festival. The walk, held to raise money for the United Jewish Fund and to show support for dissident Soviet Jews, is held each year in conjunction with the festival, a daylong event at Pan Pacific Park that celebrates the birth of Israel in 1948. More than 30,000 attended the festival. A good percentage of those who took part in the walk wore pictures of dissident Soviet Jews on their backs or signed petitions calling on the Soviet Union to release Jews being held “for the crime of teaching the Hebrew language and seeking permission to emigrate to Israel.”