Rabbi Levin Says U.S. Jews Have ‘distorted’ Idea of Jewish Life in Russia

Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin, who concluded his trip to the United States last week, told his congregation at Moscow’s Choral Synagogue yesterday that American Jews have the “most distorted and utterly incorrect notions” about Jewish life in the Soviet Union but that his trip had been “useful” in dispelling some of their misconceptions. According to reports reaching here from Moscow today, Rabbi Levin said that during his U.S. visit with Cantor David Stiskin, of Leningrad, “we had to explain on many occasions that all Soviet people had equal rights whatever their nationality or denomination.”