Rabbi Shloma Cohen, outstanding Talmudical scholar of Jerusalem and grandson of the late Israel Meier Cohen, who was renowned as the Chofetz Chaim, is en route to the United States from Palestine, it was made known yesterday in a letter received here from Chief Rabbi A. I. HaCohen Kook of the Holy Land.
The communication said Rabbi Cohen’s trip to this country is on a special mission from the Chief Rabbi.
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