Food packages sent by American Jews to friends and relatives in Russia through the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society will now cost from twenty-five to thirty percent less according to announcement made yesterday by John L. Bernstein, chairman of the Society’s Committee on Work in Foreign Countries.
This reduction in the prices is the result of negotiations between Hias and the Soviet government. It was pointed out that elderly and pious Jews could not possibly make use of orders on the Torgsin stores in Russia, first because of the matter of “kashruth,” and secondly because the Torgsin stores, owing to the food scarcity in Russia, cannot supply all the desired articles.
General food packages are not limited either as to quantity or as to the number of times they may be forwarded. The only limitations made are in the quantity of sugar, coffee, cocoa and soap—three kilos of sugar and two kilos of either coffee, cocoa or soap may be sent to the same person in each month.
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