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Collected Item: “Jewish Melbourne: Pesach raid: police swoop on illegal minyan”

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Jewish Melbourne: Pesach raid: police swoop on illegal minyan

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newspaper article

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Newspaper article which appeared in the Australian Jewish News discussing the response to a group of "ultra-Orthodox individuals" who held a minyan on the first day of Pesach, despite social distancing laws which were meant to prevent such gatherings

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https://ajn.timesofisrael.com/pesach-police-raid-on-illegal-minyan/

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Australian Jewish News

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2020-04-11
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