Fearing that the scarcity of white flour may result in the poorer sections of the Jewish population having to go without matzoth for the coming Passover, the Rabbi of Briansk has issued a dispensation that rye flour may be used for baking matzoth, and in consequence the matzoth bakeries are now working overtime to keep pace with the belated orders coming in on that account.
Alarmed by the widespread preparations for Passover observance, the central Yiddish Communist organ, the “Emess” has started sending out “Meshulochim” (special emissaries) in conjunction with the atheist organisation, the “Apikorsim Ferband”, into the Jewish towns and villages of White Russia and other parts of the Soviet Union, to agitate against Passover observance, and to organise atheist artisans co-operatives to wage a permanent war against Judaism in their particular localities.
Last Passover there was a dispensation given for the use of hametz (leavened) flour, large numbers of Jews registering with the Moscow synagogues for such matzoth.
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