The Jewish population of Bessarabia will be compelled to abstain from work three times this year on account of the confusion in the calendar with regard to the Easter holiday, states a circular of the International Fixed Calendar League here.
Because the Greek Orthodox Roumanians have refused to celebrate Easter before Passover, they have postponed it until thirty-five days after the Catholic Easter, observed March 31.
The clash of the calendars in Roumania keeps the Jews idle for 150 days during the year, causing their impoverishment, as well as the impoverishment of the other parts of the population, the League declares.
The League suggests that the Jews and Christians unite for observing the festival on the ninth of April in 1933 and keep this date as perpetual. The League complains that the Jewish representatives to whom a patient hearing was given by the Calendar Committee of the League of Nations in 1925, have declared, without knowing the benefits of the planned reform, that they would never change the present Sabbath day.
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