The New York Herald Tribune reported today that five more religious leaders of Jewish communities in the Soviet Union have been removed from their posts as lay chairmen of their congregations, and that synagogues have been closed down in at least a dozen cities in the USSR.
The five Jewish leaders reportedly removed, on orders of the Ministry of Religious Cults, are: Mr. Bardokh, Kiev; Mr. Fried, Minsk; Mr. Kaob, Vilna; Mr. Yeruzalinsky, Tashkent; and Mr. Zilberman, Riga.
The synagogues freshly closed down, according to the report, include houses of worship at Stalino, Kaszviurt, Kobuleti, Saratov, Rezinak Kremenchug, Poltava, Viliki-Luki, Soroka, Novgorod-Volinski, Kalinovitz, Tukkum (near Riga) and Czernovitz.
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