Rabbi Alexander Safran, Chief Rabbi of Geneva, has urged the International Red Cross and the Ecumenical Council to use their influence with the Soviet government to lift the ban on importing matshe to the USSR, He also urged major world figures to raise the matter with the Soviet delegation to the UN Commission on Human Right.
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