The Soviet Government has been asked by the Rabbinical Council of America, an organization of Orthodox rabbis, to permit the receipt of religious articles, kosher food and matzoth by Jews in the U.S.S.R. and the bringing of Jewish students from the Soviet to rabbinical schools in the United States, it was reported here today by Rabbi David B. Hollander, president of the organization, at the opening session of the annual mid-winter conference of the Council. The Council also requested the admission of its delegation to the Soviet Union to study Jewish religious life there.
Rabbi Hollander reported that Soviet Ambassador Georgi Zarubin had replied that he would transmit the requests to his government in Moscow. Mr. Zarubin expressed the belief that the Soviet Government would not object to the sending of religious articles and kosher food, provided the Jewish community in the Soviet Union requested this aid He said that he favored the exchange of students between the Soviet Union and the United States.
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