More than six tons of Passover food supplies and 1,400 bottles of wine sent by the Canadian Jewish Congress (United Jewish Relief Agencies of Canada) to needy Jews in Cuba arrived safely in Havana in time for the holidays, the CJCongress reports. The CJCongress has been shipping Passover supplies to Cuba in response to urgent appeals since 1961. This year’s shipment included over 8,000 pounds of matzoh meal. This and other Passover foods were purchased in Britain and shipped directly from London to Havana because of a longshoremen’s strike in New York which threatened long delays in the shipment of the foods from their normal sources in the United States, the CJCongress said.
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