A campaign for the liquidation of the Moscow Kehillah has been started by the “Emes,” Communist Yiddish daily.
In a lengthy article it declares that “Moscow is not only the center for world revolution and the residence of the Comintern, but also the center for Jewish clericalism and chauvinism.”
The paper cites alleged facts proving that the Moscow Kehillah support the provincial Kehillahs with funds in their fight for religion, repeating its attack on Vice-President Peter Smidovitch for postponing Collectivization Day for the Jewish farmers, because it coincided with Yom Kippur.
The paper demands that an impartial conference of Jewish workers, scheduled to be held shortly in Moscow, should give support to the conversion of the Moscow synagogue into a club.
A second article demands the liquidation of the Leningrad Society Ope, which is still conducting Jewish educational work legally.
In the same issue, the representative of the Comzet in Crimea complains that twenty-five schools in the Yevpatoria and Jankoy regions, partially supported by the Comzet, and partially by the regional Soviets, remain unattended because there are no teachers there.
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