Chief Rabbi Yaakov Fishman of Moscow, and Ephraim Kaplun, president of Moscow’s Jewish community, requested, in a telephone conversation with Rabbi Pinchas M. Teitz of Elizabeth, that he convey their best wishes to the American Jewish community for the New Year, the Orthodox rabbinical leader reported.
He said the Moscow Jewish leaders stated that “the warm atmosphere that has been created in America towards Soviet Russia by detente is to be applauded. It is our sincere hope and wish that it will strengthen peace in the world and will lead to a strengthening of the religious and spiritual bonds between the world’s two largest Jewish communities.”
Kaplun acknowledged receipt of a large shipment of esrogim, lulavim and hadasim sent by Rabbi Teitz and informed him that the shipment had been distributed in Moscow and surrounding areas. Rabbi Teitz said the Moscow shipment was the largest of many sent by him to the Soviet Union. He said other cities receiving such religious articles included Leningrad. Kiev. Odessa, Vilna, Riga, Tashkent, Slavuta, Tbilisi, Kuybyshev, Chust and Dvinsk.
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