Rabbi Lazerev, Chief Rabbi of Leningrad, and the well-known Rabbi Yasnogorowski, were both arrested today by the G.P.U., Russian secret police. Both are accused of maintaining illegal connections abroad, particularly with the Lubawitscher Rebbe (Rabbi Joseph Schneursohn).
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