See the original Hebrew letter signed by Goldknopf here…
Excerpt:
In the stories of the past of Jewish kehillos in foreign lands, we learned about the advocacy they would employ ahead of the Yamim Noraim in order to release prisoners so that they could daven b’tzibur on the Yimei HaDin and celebrate the Chagim with their families.”
(By the way, the number of lies/mistranslations in the original YWN rendition is staggering.)