Moses Feldstein, vice-president of the Kehillah Executive and chairman of the Education Department, was sentenced to one week in jail.
The charge brought against Mr. Feldstein was responsibility, in his capacity as head of the education department, for the unsanitary condition of the Jewish school in the suburb Pelcowizna, administered by the Kehillah.
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