“Apprehensions” and “great anxiety” over recently reported Soviet repressions against Jews practicing their religion were expressed today by the Sephardic Chief Rabbi, Dr. Itzhak Nissim, in a cable to Marshal Clementi Voro-shilov, president of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
Rabbi Nissim said in his message that the Israeli rabbinate cannot conceive that synagogues and sacramental articles of worship are being desecrated in certain provinces of the Soviet Union.” These alleged measures, he informed the Soviet official, “reportedly designed to prevent Jews from practicing their religious observances, are counter to ethics, social justice, and the Soviet Constitution.” Rabbi Nissim requested that Marshal Voroshilov advise him of the accuracy of the reports.
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