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While the ban on matzo bak-
ing in Russia was repeatedly con-
firmed, a dispatch from Stock-
holm quotes the official Soviet
news agency Tass as stating that
USSR Jews have been and are
permitted to import matzoth.
In a special cable to the New
York Times from Moscow, its
correspondent, Theodore Sha-
bad, reported that "a random
survey" disclosed that many
Jews managed to obtain matzoth.
He added that an inquirer came
away with different impressions
from two Jewish "centers"—the
quotes are the N.Y. Times cor-
respondent's—in Moscow..
He reported that at the office
of the Yiddish journal Sovietish
Heeimland the magazine's editor,
Aaron L. Vergelis, said: "Oh
yes, Passover. I almost forgot
about it. We are just going to
press with the latest issue of our
magazine. Then, expressing little
interest in the matzoh problem,
Vergelis said this was the atti-
tude of "90 per cent" of Russia's
2,500,000 Jews.
At the Moscow synagogue,
whose chief rabbi, Yehudah Leib
Levin, announced a month ago
the USSR government's rejection
of a request for matzoth to be
supplied by state bakeries, one
man said that he baked matzoth
in his own 'apartment. Another
said a friend in Georgia (Rus-
sia) sends him a package of
matzoth every Passover and he
added: "Those Georgians, you
know, make their own laws." A
third person at the synagogue,
admitting he could not get mat-
zoth, said:: "I personally can
get along without it, but I wish
I had some to show to my chil-
dren to keep up the tradition."
Commenting on the arrest of
matzo peddlers on charges of
profiteering, one man is quoted
by Shabad as follows: "The gov-
ernment ban simply invites
crime. If the stores would freely
sell matzoth, no one would be
tempted into speculating with
it."
Shabad reports a brisk busi-
ness for the Seder took place in
Cherkizovo, northeast Moscow
suburb.
A Bucharest dispatch reported
in London stated that Romanian
Jews had plenty of matzo sup-
plies, that there also was avail-
able the hand-baked shmura
matzo prescribed by the ultra-
orthodox, that there was avail-
able Passover wine bottled under
the supervision of the Romanian
rabbinate at Arab Yeshiva. A
Passover sermon, noting that all
persecutors of Jews "must re-
ceive the end given to Pha-
raoh" was delivered in the
Bucharest Choral Synagogue by
Chief Rabbi Dr. Moses Rosen,
who also honored the memory
of the martyrs of the Warsaw
Ghetto revolt.
JERUSALEM, (JA) — The
Israeli Students Organization
was disclosed to have airmail-
ed 100 matzoth parcels to the
Soviet Union, addressed to
"Rabbi Levine, Moscow Syna-
gogue." Rabbi Yehuda Leib
Levine is Chief Rabbi of Mos-
cow and he announced two
weeks ago that for a second
year the state bakeries would
not bake matzoth for Russian
Jews.
The students acted on their
own initiative and did not con-
sult any officials. A protest
meeting was held against the
Soviet matzoh ban and the meet-
ing sent a letter of protest and
did not consult any officials. A
protest meeting was held against
the Soviet matzoh ban and the
meeting sent a letter of protest
to the Human Rights Commis-
sion meeting in Geneva.
Chief Rabbi Nissim said: "We
cannot disregard the plight of a
large sector of people who are
prevented from observing their
faith and religion. We want our
Russian brethren to know that
we made all efforts to send them
matzoth for the festival but
were unsuccessful and we share
their deep spiritual grief."
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To presume that a man is a
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Publica-
LONDON, (JTA)
tion of the will of the late
Liberal statesman and first
High Commissioner for Pales-
tine Viscount Herbert Samuel
has disclosed he left an estate
of 29,000 pounds ($81,200).
After a number of bequests, in-
cluding a gift of 250 pounds
($700) to the Liberal Party, he
left the residue to his three
sons and a daughter.
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Soviet Rehabilitates
General Jonah Yakir,
Slain in Stalin Purge
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
LONDON, Gen. Jonah Yakir,
Jewish hero of the Soviet Rus-
sian armed forces who was exe-
cuted by a Stalin purge in 1938,
has now been officially rehabili-
tated as - one of the USSR's
`great men," according to a dis-
patch from Moscow received
here.
Yakir is one of a number of
Soviet heroes whose lives are
depicted glowingly in a new
movie just released by the
Soviet film unit for documen-
taries. The film is entitled
"Lives of Great Men."
Jonah Yakir, who was born
and brought up in Kishinev, en-
tered the Bolshevik army as a
youth and by 1918 had become
a general. He was hailed widely
by the Soviet leaders for his vic-
tory over White guard anti-Bol-
sheviks in the battle of Zhito-
mir in 1918. However, in 1936
he, along with Soviet Marshal
Tukchachevsky and other high
officers of the Soviet army, was
accused by the Stalin apparatus
of having had treasonous deal-
ings with the Nazi regime in
Germany. All, including Yakir,
were executed after a show trial
typical of the Stalin purges.
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The Connecticult State House of
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a state bill authorizing tne issu-
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proposed Jewish University of
Connecticut. Senate passage of
the bill, and the signature of
the Governor, are still needed
before -the charter is granted.
Five incorporators, headed by
Harold B. Yudkin of Derby,
Conn., were the applicants for
the charter. The plans are to
establish the university at
Derby "or elsewhere within the
State of Connecticut," in the
next 10 years, after develop-
ment of a multi-million dollar
fund-raising campaign for the
proposed school.
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Russia Ignores US. Jews' Offer to Send Matzoth