Jewish Communist Press Outlines Details of Active Anti-passover Campaign

The entire Jewish Communist press of Russia has officially opened its anti-Passover campaign by outlining how the drive should be conducted. The Kharkov “Shtern” urges that every Jew, whether worker, artisan, employe or colonist, should stay on his job during Passover, that no Jew should attend synagogue, that not a sign of matzoths or other Passover food be seen in a Jewish house, that all Jews submit their praying shawls, phylacteries, candlesticks and religious books for junk to be sold for the industrialization fund, that all Jews resign from the official Jewish communities and that they join instead the League of the Godless.

A similar program is outlined in the Minsk “Oktiabre,” while the Moscow “Emes,” now restricted as a semi-official government organ, publishes only the slogans to be used in the anti-Passover campaign but refrains from commenting. These slogans include: “Against the united anti-Soviet march of the Cross and the Star of David we reply with strengthening the protection of the Soviet”; “Against Passover and for the Five-Year Plan” ; “Each working Jew should officially resign from the Jewish community” ; “Each working Jew should voluntarily submit his religious articles for industrialization.”

While the Jewish Communists are preparing the anti-Passover campaign, religious Jews throughout the country are collecting tithes to provide the poor with matzoths.