Leib Teicher, the oldest rabbi in Poland, died today at the age of 99 after 75 years of rabbinical activity. He was the grandson of Abraham Kacenelbogen, the Brisker Gaon, famous rabbinical sage.
CORRECTION
Through a typographical error, the number of Jewish lawyers in Germany was given in a Berlin dispatch in yesterday’s JTA NEWS AS 27,000 instead of 2,700.
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