The names of a number of religious Jewish leaders and chairmen of Jewish religious communities in the Soviet Union, including Rabbi Solomon Shlifer, Chief Rabbi of Moscow have been appended to statements condemning the Anglo-French-Israeli attack on Egypt according to excerpts from the Russian press distributed here today by the USSR delegation.
One of the statements, reportedly published in Izvestia, the Soviet Government’s official organ, on October 29 is signed by 25 Jewish leaders. The other is signed in the name of the religious community of Bokhara Jews in Tashkent by A. Yadgarov, chairman of the community, Rabbi M. Zargarov and A. Babkahano.
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