(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The extensive preparations of the Jewish communities in Soviet Russia for the celebration this year of the Passover festival has attracted the attention of the Communist Press.
M. Lewin, a Communist, writing in the “Emes”, urges the Jewish section of the Communist party to exercise greater control over the work of the Kehilloth in view of the fact that these organizations develop an extensive religious activity.
The “Emes” reports that even the state cooperatives are advertising the sale of Passover articles. The Moscow cooperative has ordered the importation from Poland of Haggodoth in red covers.
The Invalids’ Cooperative has offered for sale a supply of Passover dishes and has distributed to its customers directions for arranging the Passover service.
Adolph Goldfisch, 85 years old, veteran of the Civil War, died at his home in New York City on Tuesday. He enlisted in Company C of the Thirty-first Volunteer New York Infantry in 1861 and was discharged June 5, 1863. At the close of the war he was one of a group to call on President Lincoln. The funeral services will be Thursday, with burial in the Jewish Veterans’ plot of Mount Zion Cemetery.
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