A report published by the “Moment” which quotes a speech delivered by the Vice-Director of the Chamber of Commerce at Lodz, has aroused a great sensation throughout Poland. The Vice-Director of the Chamber of Commerce, is reported to have stated that free trading licenses would be granted to Jewish merchants who had been ruined and that modification of the Sunday Closing Law was projected by the Government. This is being widely interpreted by the Jewish population as a sign that relief is in sight.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency is informed, however, that no such concessions are intended. The report is merely father to the wish of what the Jewish population would have desired for the allevation of their distress.
The official statistics regarding the Jewish population of Alsace-Lorraine carry some interesting details of the Jewish organizations in the recovered French provinces: three consistories are supervising the Jewish religious life: those of Strasbourg, Colmar and Metz.
At the head of each there is a chief rabbi. Twenty-two rabbis are attached to the three consistories and are assisted by eighty-three sub-rabbis. All the expense incurred by these institutions is borne by the departmental budgets.
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