Rabbi Pinchas M. Teitz, dean of the Jewish Educational Center, said today he had received confirmation from Jewish leaders in communities throughout the Soviet Union of the arrival of shipments of esrogim, lulavim and hadasim.
He said the communities which received the shipments, sent about two weeks age, were Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Riga, Vilna, Kovno, Dvinsk, Tashkent, Slavuta, Kuibishev, Minsk, Kishinev and Odessa. Rabbi Teitz said the larger shipments received by the Jewish communities of Moscow Leningrad and Kiev will be used in distribution to surrounding communities. He said confirmation had been received by telephone and cable.
The Orthodox leader said that in checking with Riga Jewish leaders on the arrival of the shipment in that city he had been informed that Shlomo Geishkin, president of the only synagogue in Riga, had died of a heart attack at age 65 on Sept. 18.
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