(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The entire community of the Subbotniki, a Russian Judaizing sect which observes Thursday as the Sabbath, in Ashenhof, a village near Riga, has decided to embrace udaism.
Many of the Subtonics in the village have taken up Jewish studies.
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