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Thousands of Soviet Jews celebrated the Succoth and Simhat Torah holidays last week in full view of agents of the KGB. The Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry has learned that 20,000 Jews sang and danced in joyous celebration of Simhat Torah in front of the Moscow Synagogue. Meanwhile, 2000 others celebrated the holiday […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315