The Jewish communities in Prague and Bratislava are functioning under administrative Communist controlled boards but “there is no interference in ordinary religious activities, including Schechita,” Yenri Landau, of Brussels, reported today to a conference of the European executive body of the Agudath Israel, ultra-orthodox religious organization.
M. Landau, who has just returned from a visit to Czechoslovakia, said that while the Rabbinates of the two communities are Orthodox, the administrative boards are Communist-controlled. The conference decided on establishment of a religious education center for Europe and a rescue center to be located in Vienna.
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