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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Moscow's New Rabbi Not Replacement
For Rabbi Levin, Says Old Friend
NEW YORK (JTA)—A lead
ing American Orthodox rabbi
said that the newly appointed
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rabbi of Moscow’s Choral Syn
agogue was the successor but
not a replacement for the late
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin who
died last November.
Rabbi Pinchas Teitz, of Eliz
abeth, N. J., a long time friend
of the late Rabbi Levin, told
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that the new rabbi, Yakov L.
Fishman. 59, was qualified to
perform the practical functions
of a rabbi but was not an au
thority on religious law or a
scholar of the late Rabbi Levin’s
stature.
The Moscow Synagogue is no
longer regarded as the “central
address" of the Russian-Jewish
community as it was during
Rabbi Levin's tenure, Rabbi
Teitz said. He explained that
in the Soviet Union today, as
during the Czarist regime, there
are Jewish religious function
aries recognized by the govern
ment as rabbis and rabbinical
scholars who may be without
official recognition but are look
ed to by observant Jews in
matters of religious law.
Rabbi Teitz said that because
of the lack of yeshivas to train
rabbis under the Soviet regime,
there are very few rabbis left
in the USSR who can qualify
as scholars. Two of them who
could have replaced Rabbi
Levin are Rabbi S. Oppenhei-
mer, of Kibishev, who is 77
and Rabbi Shlomo Lubanov, 83,
of Leningrad.
But the Government would
not consider them as candidates
for the Moscow pulpit because
of their age, Rabbi Teitz said.
Rabbi Fishman was recom
mended by the Moscow Syna
gogue’s seven member lay board
headed by Ephraim Kaplun and
was approved by the Ministry
of Cults through its Council for
Religious Affairs, Actually, Rab
bi Teitz explained, the lay
board’s choices were limited to
candidates acceptable to the
regime. Rabbi Fishman was also
approved by Jewish activists in
Moscow. Rabbi Fishman had
been functioning at the Moscow
Synagogue since May 15 but no
official announcement was made
of his appointment. It was con
firmed by Kaplun.
Rabbi Teitz described Rabbi
Fishman as a religious func
tionary who had been trained
by Rabbi Levin and his prede
cessor, Rabbi Shlomo Shlaifer,
in practical matters of syna
gogue administration, kashrut
supervision, »ritual slaughtering,
circumcision and other religious
functions. He observed that the
pulpit activities of rabbis in
Russia differ from those of
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Jews Discussed By JXixon
In USSR, Klein Says
NEW YORK (JTA) — Herbert
Klein, the White House Director
of Communications, said on a
radio show here June 7 that
President Nixon "did discuss the
issue of Soviet Jewry and
American concern was made
known to all top Soviet leaders
as well as those on lower levels”
during the Moscow summit talks
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last month. Klein, who appeared
on the John Gambling show on
WOR, made that statement
when he was telephoned during
the program by Malcolm Hoen-
lein, director of the Greater
New York Conference on Soviet
Jewry. Klein said the President
was aware “of the concern of
all thinking Americans, not
only those of the Jewish com
munity, regarding the plight of
Soviet Jews.”
He added that this problem is
viewed as a very delicate one,
especially since the Soviets see
it as an internal issue. But in
Washington the Congressional
Record carried a speech by Sen.
John V. Tunney (D. Calif.) in
which he said “It does not ap
pear that the President even
raised the issue of the treatment
of Jews by the Soviet govern
ment” during the summit talks.
Tunney made the speech at a
United Jewish Appeal dinner in
Seattle June 2.
He said that if the President
did raise the issue, “he has kept
it a well guarded secret.” “I am
concerned about the President’s
failure to raise the issue of the
Soviet Jews and the implica
tion that the Congress is not in
cluded in the processes and that
the human beings affected are
often submerged in a grand de
sign,” Tunney said.
American rabbis. They lead
synagogue services but do not
deliver sermons and speak pub
licly only once or twice a year.
Rabbi Fishman was born in
Lutsk and served briefly as a
rabbi in Perm, a city in the
Urals. Prior to his appointment
to the Moscow Synagogue he
was employed in an automo
bile manufacturing plant.
Romania Filling
French Role,
Alton Says
JERUSALEM (WUP)~ “Ro
mania is today filling the vac
uum left by France.” Thus de
clared Deputy Premier Yigal
Allon in a recent discussion
with Louis Jaxe, who headed a
140-man French delegation to
celebrate French Week in Is
rael.
Mr. Allon told Jaxe that
France had lost her position of
influence in the Middle East
Romania, a much smaller na
tion, he said, “was now filling
the political vacuum and exert
ing considerable power. France
was also losing a great deal in
terms of trade from her
worsened relations with the
Jewish State, Allon stated.
Friday, June 23, 1972
Lod (iunman Says
He Only Acted
tinder Orders
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Jap-
aeso gunman captured in the
Lydda Airport massacre said
this week that he never hated
Israel and did what he did only
because he was ordered to.
Kozo Okamoto made that re
mark to the Counsellor of the
Japanese Embassy, who visited
him in prison. Okamoto, a mem
ber of the Japanese under
ground terrorist group Red Star,
reportedly told his countryman,
"1 cannot say I hate Israel. Once
1 saw ‘Exodus’ and I was very
impressed. What I did could
have been done anywhere. I got
an order and so it happened at
In dda.”
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