(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Passover will be celebrated this year in Russia, the Ukraine and White Russia as in the “old days,” reports received here from Soviet Russia indicate.
The Jewish communities throughout the territory which comprised the former Russian Empire are busy with preparations for the celebration of the holiday. Even in the Soviet cooperative stores, special sales of matzos, Passover wines and spirits are being held. A feature of the Passover season is the placing on the market of a red covered Haggadali.
For the first time since the outbreak of the war, Russian Jews will have Palestine oranges on their tables this Passover due to a recent shipment which has arrived.
The Jewish Communist press is, as usual, publishing articles attacking the holiday, but there is no general anti-religious campaign. It is interesting that the majority of the settlers in the new Jewish colonies have demanded that they be supplied with matzos.
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