The first Seder of the Passover festival will be observed at sundown tonight. Poor families throughout the city are being provided with Matzoths by various charitable organizations. Abraham Herman, president of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society, announced that a special Seder service will be held for the 150 Jews now on Ellis Island. Benjamin A. Day, Commissioner of Immigration, will be a guest at the service. During the holiday, it was announced, no deportations will take place.
Jewish seamen and Jewish unemployed will be the guests of the Hias at special services at its headquarters, ## Lafayette street.
The forty-five Jewish patients in the Kings County Hospital will be provided with Passover food by the Jewish Social Service Committee. On Thursday a Seder will be held at the hospital, at which Rabbi Morris Friedlander. Jewish chaplain in the hospital will preside.
The “Jewish Daily Bulletin” will not appear on Thursday and Friday, April 5 and 6 the first two days of the holiday.
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