A spokesman for Moscow’s Central Synagogue confirmed in the Soviet capital that the city’s Jewish community has been permitted to rent a special suburban building for use as a matzoh bakery this year, according to a dispatch from Moscow received here today. The statement by the synagogal representative confirmed a previous report by Novosti, an official USSR news agency, which had announced earlier that Moscow Jews would be permitted to bake matzoh this year.
The Moscow dispatch quoted Novosti as also announcing today that Jews in Kiev have already been provided with matzoh for this year’s Passover. Kiev has the third largest Jewish population among cities in the USSR, with Moscow having most Jewish residents and Leningrad next.
(In Jerusalem, Dr. Israel Goldstein said today he had received a cable from Moscow, informing him that a celebration will be held next Sunday at the Great Synagogue in Moscow honoring Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin on his 70th birthday. The cable, signed “Community Executive,” declared: “We want your greeting and wish for an enhancement of Torah and peace.” Dr. Goldstein said he had cabled a message in reply.)
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