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(WARSAW). Letter written by Warsaw’s Rabbinic and Orthodox Leadership to the Members of the Great Rabbinical Conference in St. Petersburg. Signators include: * R. Alexander Ziskund Bialer * R. Yisrael Mordechai Yablonsky * R. Eliyahu Eisenberg * R. Aharon Feivel Trockenheim * R. Nachum Yehudah Leib Wingate *  R. Yehoshua Shmuel David Zahlberg *  R. Yechezkel Spiegelglas. Two pages. Warsaw, 1910. The authors of the letter complain to the addressees (including R. Chaim of Brisk, R. Yisrael Meir Kagan, R. Shalom Ber Schneersohn and R. Meir Simcha of Dvinsk) that while the Orthodox pay the majority of the Kehillah’s taxes, the political echelon of the community is under the firm control of “Free-thinkers.” The Great Rabbinical Conference of 1910 was called by the Russian authorities, summoning leaders from across a wide spectrum of the Jewish world to determine the extent to which secular subjects should be required within Jewish education offered within the Empire.