British Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie today appealed to the Soviet Government to “revise” the death sentence handed down against Rabbi B. Gavrilov of Piatigorsk. In a telegram to the Soviet authorities. Rabbi Brodie declared: “In the name of British Jewry. I earnestly appeal on humanitarian grounds for the Soviet Government to revise the death sentence on Rabbi Gavrilov of Piatigorak as reported in the press.”
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