The Autumn Session of the Polish Diet, which was scheduled to be opened on October 21, has been postponed to October 22, on account of the Jewish Torah holiday, Simchas Torah.
This was the result of a request from the Jewish members of the Polish Sejm, to the Marszalek, the speaker who, this time, took into consideration the Jewish calendar.
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