(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Synagogues in Soviet Russia’s capital were crowded to full capacity during the Passover services. In Moscow alone half a million pounds of Matzos were sold for the holiday.
Reports from Ukraine and White Russia state that the holiday celebrations passed quietly, there being no public anti-Passover demonstrations.
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