(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Achad Ha’am, the late Hebrew philosopher, was declared to have been an atheist by Rabbi Sack, Chief Rabbi of Riga.
The Rabbi prohibited a memorial meeting in honor of the later writer to be held in the Great Synagogue.
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