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There Will
Be Enough Matzo, Moscow Authorities Promise
THE DETROIT JEWISH N
30—Friday, March 28, 1969
would be a satisfactory arrange- ish life in the Soviet Union is the
WASHINGTON (JTA)—About 90 said, Kundicof promised he
of a central organized Jew-
ment and suggested that Rabbi lack
tons of matzo was baked in Mos- would bring before the council
ish community such as the Rus-
cow and 45 tons in Riga two weeks the question of separate burial Levin designate the first student," sian Orthodox and B apt is t
Rabbi Schneier said. Rabbi Levin
ago and preparations made for grounds for Jews. Jewish ceme-
matzo delivery to the homes of teries were closed by the auth- agreed, and it is believed that a churches enjoy," Rabbi Schneier
invalids and the elderly, the Soviet orities two years ago, and Jews student from Georgia, USSR, is said.
"In this respect, the gathering
Novosti press agency reported in and gentiles are now buried in likely to be the first student rec- of synagogue leaders f r o m
ommended, he said.
a dispatch made available by the the same cemeteries.
Leningrad, Riga and
Some easing of the difficulties Odessa,
The Soviet official also promised
Soviet Embassy here.
In a March 20 cable from Mos- that the government would print encountered by Soviet Jews in ob- Georgia to honor Rabbi Levin was
cow, Novosti correspondent Sa- 40,000 to 50,000 additional copies of serving their religious practices a milestone which, hopefully, will
mull Rozin reported on Passover Jewish prayerbooks and Hebrew I was reported by the group. Rabbi mark the beginning of a coordinat-
preparations. He quoted Menashe calendars which are sold to Jew- Schneier said that Father Mc- ed Jewish religious life."
Mikhailovich, 'chairman of the ish congregations. Rabbi Hecht- I Naspy discussed with Makartsev
a
community, as stating "We have man said that 10,000 calendars I the possibility of establishing
facility in Moscow to en-
a well-equipped mechanized bak- printed recently were sold out in I , kosher
able local Jews and Jewish visi-
ery of our own. It can produce as a day.
much matzo as necessary. This ' , Rabbi Hechtman reported that , tors from abroad to observe their
year we started to bake early in for the first time the Soviet goy- ' dietary laws.
January so as to avoid commo- ernment has made sufficient flour i The Soviet official said that it
tion. As a result, "there are no available to Jewish bakeries for I was a possibility but would have
be taken up with Intourist. the
lines" of people waiting for matzo. the production of enough matzo to 1 to
Matzo will be sold in un- take care of local needs. In the official Soviet travel bureau which
limited quantities not only to past, Jews had to buy their own! has jurisdiction over such mat-
I enjoy a good laugh—one tha
rushes out of a man's soul like th
breaking up of a Sunday school.
—Josh Billing
WHEN YOU Pi,
A COCKTAIL
THE RADERMAN FAMILY
And All Employees of
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synagogue members but to all flour and take it to the bakeries ters.
The group visited Odessa Rabbi
who wish to buy it, the report in time for Passover.
Israel Schwartzblatt and saw
said. Mikhailovitch said that a
Rabbi Hechtman said that 50
the extensive damage done to
seder had been arranged on the years of communism and the
Odessa's only synagogue by a
first day of Passover for those machinations of the Jewish sec-
fire last November which the
who have no families. He also tion of the Communist Party
rabbi said would cost about $55,-
said that "religious Jews will be had failed to uproot Judaism in
000
to repair. He said, "Miracu-
supplied kosher meat fully in
Russia. He said that on Purim
lously, the ark and the 58 Sifrei
keeping with the law of reli-
he saw- at least 20,000 Moscow
Tora
were not harmed" by the
gion•"
Jews listening to the Megila
blaze which was attributed to a
The report said.- the Central reading over a loudspeaker out-
short circuit in an adjacent
Synagogue was assuming a festive side the Central Synagogue and
matzo bakery. Some sources
appearance and that 2,000 were there was singing and dancing
contended that the fire was of
expected to celebrate Passover in the streets.
suspicious origin.
services. A rehearsal of Passover
He said that despite the anti-
songs by a chorus led by Cantor religious attitude and the scorn
Rabbi Schneier said his group
David Shteinberg was described.
heaped on ritual observances, urged the head of the Odessa
Novosti also told of visits to the some 80 to 100 Jewish weddings Council of Religious Affairs to do
Maryina Roshcha, Cherkizovo and are performed each year in Mos- everything possible to speed re-
Malakhovka synagogues.
cow and a like number of Bar construction of the synagogue.
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin, chief
Mitzas. He acknowledged that this which is the only one serving the
rabbi of Moscow, told Novosti, represented about 1 per cent of city's 200,000 Jews. They offered
"We must redouble our common the ceremonies performed in an a $10,000 gift toward the repairs.
efforts for international friendship, I $ American city with a Jewish
The group also visited 88-year-
for world peace." The Novosti population of similar size. He said old Rabbi Lubanoff of the Lenin-
correspondent said, "The heads of there were only three mohels in grad Synagogue where a major
all the Moscow synagogues asked 1
I Moscow and only seven or eight restoration project was under way
me to convey congratulations and
students in the Moscow yeshiva, on the 80-year-old building. The
the best wishes to their brethren one of them studying to be a Tora work is expected to be completed
.
in faith abroad."
Meanwhile, a Canadian rabbi scribe. He said that while he was in time for Passover, Rabbi Sch-
there 28 Jews left Riga for Vienna neier said.
who just returned from a visit to
The visitors described Rabbi
Russia asserted that the best way, on their way to settle in Israel.
In New York specialists in So- Levin's birthday celebration as an
for Jews abroad to help Soviet I , viet Jewish affairs voiced guard- historic event for Soviet Jews.
Jews was to try to meet the Com- ed hope that a report that a Rus- "One of the shortcomings of Jew- '
munist regime halfway and not , sian youth will be permitted to
engage in public protests and vio- , study for the Russian rabbinate in
lent demonstrations against it.
Hungary will point to an easing of
Rabbi A. Hechtman, executive •
director of the Montreal Jewish one area of the "Soviet Jewish
told the Jew-
Community:Council,
p lc gency t at
h t his , "This could be a step forward-
ish Teler, raTh . A
, an objective one — if it comes to
technique was the only practical pass." said one source. "We will
attitude to adopt when dealing '
be watching and waiting."
with a country that is anti
The
The report was made Sunday by
ous in philosophy and politically !
Rabbi Arthur Schneier of Park
hostile to Israel.
Rabbi Hechtman, the only East Synagogue, who attended the
Levin birthday celebration.
Canadian rabbi to attend the 75th I
; He is president of the Appeal of
birthday celebrations for Rabbi
Yehuda Leib Levin of NIoscow's Conscience Foundation and was
central synagogue, said he found accompanied to Russia by Father
signs that the Soviet regime was ; Clement J. McNaspy, associate
somewhat relaxing its repression' editor of the Jesuit weekly "Amer-
of Jewish observances. ica." Also visiting Russia with
He said that he was promised I them, though not at the celebra-
by Michail Kundicof, chief adviser; tion, were foundation trustees
on religious affairs to the Soviet John Mosier and Joseph P. Wil-
Council of Ministers, that steps hiams.
Rabbi Schneier said that the
would be taken to ease restric- I
problem of the lack of replace-
Lions of Jewish ritual practices.
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The Seder Night, inaugurated with the traditional questions that
beckon answers to challenges against oppression and quests for
freedom, sterns from the Biblical background:
Specifically, Rabbi Hechtman meats for the few elderly rabbis
in the Soviet Union was brought
up at a conference his group
NYC Municipal Hospital had with Peter Makartsev, a top
official
of the Soviet Council for
Has Kosher Food Service j
NEW YORK (JTA) — The first Religious Affairs of the USSR
Council of Ministers.
program of kosher food service
The problem stems from the
for Jewish patients in a New York
City municipal hospital will be dearth of rabbinical seminaries in
launched formally at a ceremony Russia and the suggestion was
Monday at Coney Island Hospital made that Jewish students be al-
in Brooklyn. The experimental lowed to study for the rabbinate
program is being funded with a in Hungary, the only Communist
municipal appropriation of $100,- bloc country with a rabbinical
000 for the coming 12 months. seminary, Rabbi Schneier said.
The members of the group told
William Ciner, a past president
of Young Israel of Bensonhurst in Makartsev that the foundation
Brooklyn, sponsor of the project, would absorb the expense involved
said the appropriation will cover in the training of rabbinic students
the cost of the kosher food, two and suggested that the students
new ovens installed for the new chosen for study in Budapest com-
project, new dishes and serving mit themselves to return to the
carts and the salaries of two spe- USSR after completing t h eir
cial dietary aides for the program. course. Rabbi Schneier said Hun-
gary was chosen because it was
Most ignorance is vincible ignor- within the orbit of the Soviet
ance. We don't know because we Union and not subject to fluctuat-
ing East-West relations.
don't want to know.
"Mr. Makartsev told us that this
—Aldous Huxley
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And the children of the captivity kept the Passover upon the fourteenth
day of the first month. For the Priests and the Levites had purified them-
selves together . . . And the children of Israel ,that were come back out
o fthe captivity . . . to seek he Lord, the God of Israel, did eat, and
kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; for the Lord had
made them joyful .. .
vi, 19-22
May the Passover of our day continue to
strengthen us in our links with the past.
A Happy Passover To Our Families, To Our
Community And The Entire Community of Israel
Jize Stollatans