Dispatches from Moscow received here today reported that the Central Synagogue there was crowded last night with worshipers, but that a very small percentage of Moscow’s 300,000 Jews were in a position to secure matzoth for the Passover holiday. No reports were received on how Jews celebrated Passover in other cities in the Soviet Union.
Some Moscow Jewish families with friends in Soviet Georgia, where Jewish religion is being tolerated more than in any other part of the USSR, have succeeded in obtaining matzoth sent from Tiblisi, capital of Georgia. A few Jewish families in Moscow, which have oven facilities, baked matzoth in their homes. Despite Soviet denials that no one was arrested in Moscow for selling matzoth, the reports received here today from the Soviet capital clearly stated that there had been arrests of people charged with matzoh selling.
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