The Daily Express reported today that thirty Russian rabbis had been arrested by the Ogpu for spreading Zionist propaganda and for preaching against Bolshevism.
One of the arrested rabbis, Abraham Levy, 75, of Moscow, has been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment, the Express said.
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