Three thousand Passover relief baskets will be distributed in Brooklyn this year. This will make it possible for approximately twelve thousand poor Jews of Brooklyn to celebrate properly the Pesach holiday.
Arrangements for the distribution of the baskets were made Thursday at a meeting in the home of Samuel Rubel, who has donated $30,000 for this purpose. Representatives of fifteen charitable organizations from all parts of Brooklyn were present at the meeting, at which it was declared that the need this year is probably greater than at any time during the past decade.
Isaac L. Asofsky, general manager of Hias, declared at the meeting that the employment bureau maintained by his organization can now obtain only four jobs a day for the unemployed, whereas at the beginning of this year it obtained thirty jobs a day.
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