The schools maintained by the ultra-orthodox Agudath Israel Organization in Poland were today given the full rights of government schools in an order issued by the Ministry of Education.
The Agudah schools will henceforth be called elementary public schools and will occupy the same status as all the elementary schools maintained by the government. The schools of the Agudah are religious schools. The Agudath Israel Organization in Poland is a Jewish Party supporting the present government.
The schools maintained by the Agudah are only a fraction of the entire Jewish school system in Poland. The other Jewish schools
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