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...Your article on the visit of Moscow's Chief Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin [June 28] contained a number of misleading points. The American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry is not an "antiCommunist" group. It is ideologically neutral, being concerned solely with the ame- lioration of the condition of Jews in the Soviet Union. Most unfortunate was the juxtaposing of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union and other nations. They are by no means similar. In the U.S.S.R. the government itself is responsible for a program aimed at the religious and cultural restriction of Jews. Indeed, so extensive is this...
...beard was long and white, his coat was long and black, and his flight had been long and tiring. "I am not a voyager," admitted Moscow's Chief Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin, 74, when he arrived in New York last week. In fact, it was the first time that Levin, whose forefathers had been rabbis for 13 generations, had ever been outside Russia. It was also the first time that any ranking Soviet rabbi had visited the U.S. Judging by the reception he got, it could well be the last...
...shelter-even though nothing more ominous appeared in the sky than a few vultures. In Israel, though it was the Sabbath, on which traveling is a profanation to the Orthodox, students from Talmudic academies jumped into trucks bound for the frontiers with the solemn exhortation of noted Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook ringing in their ears: "Go! This is a matter of saving life, for which the Sabbath may lawfully be desecrated...
Johnson's problems are hardly new, as Rabbi Issar Yehuda Unterman, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, took occasion to remind him in a brief, unofficial visit. King David, said the whitebearded rabbi, had also been assailed by "seemingly insoluble problems of state"-yet had surmounted them with divine guidance...
Wild Chance. Nothing like science or journalism was in the mind of the young Orthodox Jew who smuggled himself out of Russia in a sauerkraut barrel. He arrived in the U.S. in 1905 with 50? and an unnegotiable name: Yehuda-Leib Siew. This he changed to William Laurence-the surname chosen for the street he lived on in Boston. He taught himself a kind of English by comparing Russian and English versions of Shakespearean plays and practiced on unamused trolley conductors: "Holla, sirrah, wouldst prithee halt...