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August 16, 1978
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Chanting “L’Shana Habaha B’Yerushalayim” (next year in Jerusalem), some 150 Jews liked Tisha B’av with attempts to eradicate Jewish life in the Soviet Union in their mincha service Sunday at the site of the daily vigil opposite the Soviet Embassy. The participants were marking the annual “night of the murdered poets” which coincides this year with Tisha B’av. The program was sponsored by the Greater Washington Jewish Community Council. Rabbi Oscar Groner, B’nai B’rith Hillel director, read Anatoly Shcharansky’s closing statement to the Moscow court after he was sentenced last month.

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