The Rumanian Jewish community celebrated Passover seders throughout the country. More than 8000 needy Jews received matzoh parcels and special financial assistance and some additional 3000 people registered for the communal seders here sponsored by the Federation of Jewish Communities. Collective seders were also held in 20 major provincial cities.
Rumanian Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen conducted a special seder here for 800 Jewish intellectuals, writers, scientists and university professors. Rosen thanked the American Joint Distribution Committee for its “wonderful help” and said that as a result of this assistance “not a single Jew was left in Rumania without the necessities to celebrate a traditional seder night.”
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