Jewish communities in Poland, Rumania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia have been permitted by the authorities to make arrangements to bake matzot for Passover, it was reported here today.
Five thousand Haggadas have been sent by the Agudah World executive to Jewish communities in Lodz and Wroczlaw in Poland, Kosice in the Soviet Carpatho-russia, Prague and other East European Jewish communities, it was announced here today. The Agudah also distributed more than 200 pairs of tefillin in Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia.
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