A two-member Soviet Jewish religious delegation which had been scheduled to arrive in the United States on Monday but did not show up is coming next week, the American Council for Judaism said today. A spokesman for the Council, sponsor of the visit, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that his organization had received confirmation of the visit this morning but declined to comment on the reason for the delay.
The spokesman said that the Council has a “commitment” that Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin of Moscow’s Choral Synagogue and Cantor David Stiskin will still come to New York. The Council, at the same time, announced postponement of its June 13 meeting at Town Hall here at which Rabbi Levin was scheduled to appear “because of his delay in departing from Moscow.”
The Council asked that ticket holders retain their tickets, which will be honored on a date and place to be announced within a few days. “The meeting is expected to take place next week,” the Council said. A State Department spokesman in Washington said today that the Department had received no word from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow on the issuance of visas to the two Russian Jews.
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