they do not observe Passover.
The Jewish school at Retchitcha is arranging that the school children must see that their parents must all work in the fields on Passover. On the Seder Nights there will be anti-religious performances in the schools, and all pupils and their parents will be required to attend. The same is being done in most of the Yiddish schools in White Russia.
Reports are arriving from other places, however, the Oktiabr complains, that the anti-religious work is being neglected. In Uritche there was once an atheist club, but it has gone out of existence, the paper points out, warning that the clericals are again active in the town.
“They (the clericals) have converted one of the houses into a synagogue,” Oktiabr writes, “where even members of the artisans cooperative go to attend the services. There are many members of the artisans cooperative who do not even go to work on Saturdays.”
“In Turov, another town in White Russia, things are even worse,” the paper complains. “Some of the pupils in the Jewish school there have fallen under the influence of the clericals and are carrying out religious ceremonies.”
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