With tearful, emotion-packed rites, 1,500 Moscow Jews last night observed the 20th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising at special services in the Soviet capital’s Central Synagogue, Moscow dispatches here reported today. The services were conducted by Moscow’s Chief Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin. Among those attending was Yosef Tekoah, Israel’s Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
The fact that 1,500 Jews, including about 500 women, attended the special services was deemed noteworthy, since the usual Sunday night prayers at the synagogue draw, as a rule, no more than 50 or 60 men. The only advance notice of the scheduled observance was an announcement by Rabbi Levin at last Saturday’s regular Sabbath service.
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