All synagogues in Moscow and in Leningrad were crowded beyond capacity last week when Shavuoth services were conducted by the congregations, according to highly authentic reports received here today from the Soviet Union. Not only the houses of worship but the courtyards surrounding the synagogues were filled with many hundreds of Jews celebrating the holiday, the reports noted.
At the same time, copies of the Soviet press received here indicated that the Soviet Government is continuing its drive against alleged economic offenders bearing names that are obviously Jewish. The Minsk daily, Sovietskaya Byelorussia, reported the opening of a trial against a man named Boris Raikhlin, charged with stealing watch parts from a factory and selling them in Talin, capital of Esthonia. Trud, the official organ of the Soviet trade unions, reported a case of another man, S. M. Margulies, accused of “pocketing about 100,000 rubles from salaries due to workers” who had installed electric boilers on collective farms.
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