Congregation B’nai Israel has named a roadway at the Paul Himmelfarb Jewish School in Silver Spring, Md., as the Hillel Butman Drive in honor of the Soviet prisoner of conscience. The congregation “adopted” Butman and his family more than two years ago.
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