Rabbi Leon J. Risikoff, chaplain of the Sanitation Department, has forwarded a letter to Ernest P. Goodrich, Sanitation Commissioner, requesting that Jewish employees be given a leave of absence for the Passover Holidays scheduled on March 31, April 1 and 7.
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