(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Rabbi Schneurson, known as the Lubawitscher rebbe, the leader of the Chabbad Chassidic school, was released from imprisonment, according to despatches received here from Leningrad.
The Chassidic leader was arrested on the charge that he collected funds for the maintenance of a Yeshiva. The despatch states that following his release he was placed under the supervision of the Ogpu, the political police of the Soviet government.
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