(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A vigorous anti-religious campaign in connection with the approathing Jewish High Holidays was undertaken by the Yiddish Communist press in Soviet Russia.
The Communite newspapers are publishing arricles on the origin of the High Holidays. mocking the Jewish religious custome and urging their readers to “resist the Black Bands” and to throw down the “old mildew.”
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