After first being denied a Hungarian exit visa, then obtaining permission to leave that country, Rabbi Jeno Schuck, chief Orthodox rabbi of Hungary, will arrive here tomorrow, it was announced today by Yeshiva University, which had invited him to this country.
Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of Yeshiva, had asked Rabbi Schuck to lecture at the university’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary on Jewish religious law and the history of Hungarian Jewry. Dr. Schuck had been scheduled to arrive late yesterday. Shortly before his expected arrival, the university announced it had received a cable from the Hungarian Jewish leader, stating he could not come because he had been denied an exit visa.
Today, Rabbi Hershel Schacter, vice-president of the Rabbinical Council of America, received notice from Sabena Belgian World Airways that Rabbi Schuck is scheduled to come to New York tomorrow, stating that he now has an exit visa. There were no explanations about the previous travel denial or the subsequent permission from the Hungarian authorities.
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