About 2,000 Jews crowded into Moscow’s synagogue during the Rosh Hashanah services, according to press reports received here from the Soviet capital. The reports indicated that there were more younger people among the worshippers than in the last two years, but noted that the average age of the worshippers seemed to be above 50.
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