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On this day in 1948, Golda Meir, newly arrived in Moscow as Israel’s first ambassador to the Soviet Union, showed up at the capital’s Choral Synagogue on the first day of Rosh Hashana. The State of Israel had been declared less than five months earlier, and the government of Joseph Stalin had been the second country to officially recognize the new nation. Yet, local Jews were warned to keep their...
