Rabbi Pinchas Teitz said he has received confirmation from spokesmen of several Jewish communities in the Soviet Union regarding their receipt of esrogim, lulovim and hadasim which he sent to the various communities for the Succoth holidays. The communities which received the supplies included Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Riga, Vilna, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Kovna, Chernovitz, Baku, Minsk, Babroisk and Lvov.
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