(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Recognition of the Chassidic movement by the Czechoslovakian and Roumanian governments was granted in a special agreement concluded between the two governments, reports received here state.
The governments agreed to permit the followers of the Chassidic rabbi called the Wishnitzer Rebbe, who lives in Grosswardein, Hungary, to travel to Grosswardein five times a year without passports or visas. The governments appointed two Jewish citizens, Chassidic followers, to issue special permits to the Chassidim.
According to Chassidic custom the followers of the Rabbi leave their home and family and come to the rabbi on the five principal holidays.
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