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Day Schools For
Soviet Students

New York (JTA) — When
school bells ring next month
in Moscow, things will be
very different for Jewish
children.
Three full-time Jewish day
schools, in session from
Monday to Friday, will be
holding classes, according to
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt,
the new religious leader of
Moscow's main synagogue
and deputy chief rabbi of the
Soviet Union.
For some 600 to 1,000 ex-
pected students, ages 5 to 16,
attending Jewish day school
in Moscow also spells the
end of the Communist
nation's mandatory six-day
school week and the freedom
to observe Saturday as the
Sabbath.
Although the majority of
Jewish students will remain
in state schools, which are in
session six days a week,
those who refuse to attend
school on Shabbat now have
a full opportunity to attend a
Jewish religious school.
"As of now, whoever wants
to go to Jewish school can
go," Rabbi Goldschmidt said
during a visit last week to
the World Jewish Congress.
Three buildings that will
house Jewish schools have
been given to the Jewish
community for that purpose,
although they are not former
properties of Jewish groups,
he said.
One of the schools will be
overseen by the Israeli Min-
istry of Education, together
with a local Soviet Jewish
cultural group called
Tehiya, not to be confused
with the Israeli political par-
ty.
The Lubavitcher Chasidic
movement Chabad,
-operating through a New
York-based organization,
Lishkas Ezras Achim, runs a
day school at the Choral
Synagogue, as well as a
yeshiva at the Marina
Roscha Synagogue in
Moscow.
The building adjacent to
the Choral Synagogue, also
known as the Great Syn-
agogue, will be returned to
Jewish hands from the
municipality after 50 years,
to become a yeshiva and
related offices.
That yeshiva will be run
by the synagogue, with help
from organizations such as
the WJC and the American
Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee, and particularly
Canadian Jewish busi-
nessman Albert Reichmann,
Rabbi Goldschmidt said.

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