The movement for making Sunday instead of Saturday the official rest day for the Soviet schools attended by Jewish pupils is gaining headway. Following the discarding of the Saturday rest day by the Jewish teachers of Kamenetz-Podolsk, a conference of Jewish instructors of Witebsk Gubernia decided on a similar course.
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