The World - News from Dec. 28, 1988
The chief rabbis of Moscow and Leningrad arrived in Israel on what they said was the first visit of Soviet rabbis to the Jewish state. Moscow Chief Rabbi Avraham Shayevitz praised efforts by Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev to increase religious freedom. “Things are much better now since Gorbachev,” he told reporters at the Tel Aviv airport. “...Up to now we have lived in an empty religious state.” Shayevitz and Leningrad Chief Rabbi Chaim Levitis are guests of the Tel Aviv religious council.
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