The Cheder, the religious Hebrew school, existing in Jewish life since the Middle Ages, was officially prohibited by the Communist Government of Ukrainia, according to des-patches received here from Kieff.
Up to the present the Communist authorities have prohibited only private religious instruction, which had been permitted only with the special consent of the authorities. The granting of such permission depended upon the political convictions of the applicants.
News coming from Ukrainia shows the state of mind prevalent among the Jewish working masses. An appeal which reached Ukrainian Jewry from the victims of the recent flood in Lennigrad was met by sums raised in the synagogues through the “sale of aliahs.” (According to the custom of the Ashkenazic synagogues, the honor of being invited to the pulpit when the weekly chapter of the Bible is read is paid for by the one so honored.)
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