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Protest Jewish Schools Subsidy Withdrawal

November 21, 1929
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The Kehillah Executive has adopted a resolution protesting against Sunday’s attack on the Kehillah officer, stating that terrorist acts will not force it to support schools which teach animosity for the most sacred of Jewish traditions.

The riots on Sunday were the result of the withdrawal of subventions by the Kehillah from the Yiddish schools. When supporters of the Yiddish schools came to the Kehillah office demanding the payment of the subventions and were refused, they broke into the office and destroyed furniture and cut telephone wires.

The “Folkszeitung” publishes a statement of the Zisho (Central Jewish School Organization) saying that the suspension of the subsidy for the schools by the Kehillah provoked the people’s anger which was responsible for Sunday’s riot. It also protests against the Kchillah’s wrong characterization of and accusations against the Zisho schools.

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