While matzoh is being baked in Moscow by permission of the Soviet Government, private Jewish sources expressed concern in the Soviet capital that the situation in Moscow “may not be typical” of other Jewish communities in the USSR, the New York Times reported from Moscow today. (The news about permission to bake matzoh in Moscow was carried by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in a dispatch from Moscow on February 8.)
The Times report stated that communal matzoh bakeries have also been established in Leningrad and “perhaps” in Kiev. But the private sources told the Times correspondent in Moscow that Jews in other parts of the Soviet Union have not received permission to bake matzoh. They urged that Jews in the United States and Western Europe should not give up their efforts to ship matzoh to Jewish communities in the Soviet Union.
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