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LETTERS FROM RABBI YOEL DOV LAPIDUS. Buenos Aires, Argentina. - Rabbi Lapidus escaped Russia to avoid being drafted in the Russian-Japanese war and tried to come to America, but had an eye infection and was not let into Ellis Island. He wound up going to Argentina where he was a prominent Mohel. An article is in Beis Moshiach Magazine as told by his grandson about how there were many communist Jews who refused to get a bris for their children, but the wives would secretly reach out to him to preform the bris.