Rabbi Arthur Schneier and Father Thurston Davis, SJ. The agreement of the 10 students addresses..Read More
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2 Rabbinical Students chosen in USSR to Study in Seminary in Hungary – leave Moscow via train to Hungary
Students: Haim Levitis (age 23), Adolf Shayevich (age 36), a graduate engineer from Birobijan. After..Read More
USSR imposes education fees for Jews wanted to emigrate out of the USSR to Israel
Soviets defend the tax stated they are entilted to a refund for the costs of..Read More
ACF Delegation travels to Romania for the dedication of the Teatron 80 cobalt machine for the treatment of cancer in Cluj, Romania a gift of the American Flood Relief Committee (dedication 6/25/72).
6/21-26 1972 The machine, ordered from Atomic Energy of Canada is the only one of..Read More
ACF brings delegation from USSR to US
Delegation Members include: MetropolitanNikodim of Leningrad and Novograd; VP Aliabkarov of Muslim Organizations in USSR;..Read More
Eleven Soviet Citizens, 9 of them Jews were found guilty of treason in Leningrad for the attempted hijacking of a plane.
Two of the eleven were sentenced to death by a firing squad. After an outcry..Read More
ACF Delegation travels to Romania for Relief of flood-stricken regions.
August 27-31, 1970 Met with President Nicolae Ceausescu regarding concerns of flood. The committee recommended..Read More
ACF first delegation to Belfast and Dublin Ireland followed by meetings in London
Rabbi Arthur Schneier, Ambassador Duke, Father Campion, Dr. David HC Read established relationships with religious..Read More
Floods in Romania
March 12-June 15, 1970 Flood completely or partially flooded 1500 towns and villages, 300,000 families..Read More
Rabbi Arthur Schneier, Founder and President of ACF, and Primate Torkoom Manoogian lead interfaith delegation at State Department in Washington, DC.
1970s – Washington, DC
Meeting with Mr. Perter Makartsev, top official of Council of Religious Affairs of the Council of Ministers of the USSR – proposed plan to have Russian Rabbinical students trained for the rabbinate abroad.
After the formal training at the Budapest Rabbinical Seminary, all students chosen would have to..Read More