Acting in response to a plea from Jewish political prisoners in the Soviet Union, Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren has cabled Soviet authorities urging them to supply Jewish prisoners with matzos for the Passover holiday and to permit them to practice their religion freely in accordance with their conscience. The Ashkennzic Chiet Rabbi said that it he receives a favorable response from the authorities he is prepared to send the Jewish prisoners in Russia packages of matzos and other Passover foods sufficient for all their needs.
Rabbi Goren said he cabled the International Red Gross In Geneva asking its intervention. He has also asked the chief rabbis of Britain, France and Switzerland and the presidents of rabbinical organizations in the United States to use their good offices to see to it that Jewish prisoners in the USSR are adequately supplied for Passover.
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