Britain's Chief
Rabbi Reports on
Jews in Spain
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
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Newly Discovered Hebrew Psalm -Deciphered,
Made Public in Jordan
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LONDON, (JTA) — The first psalms are well known. The
Another of the five psalms, its series on "Discoveries in the _1
English translation of one of the scroll is considered the most according to Dr. Sanders, is a Judean Desert of Jordan."
five psalms recently found in a significant discovery of the an- personal confession of faith. Two
Dead Sea Scroll, an Ode to Zion, cient Hebrew manuscripts since are in praise of God. The fifth
was made public yesterday by the the initial findings of the Dead is in prose and tells about the
Palestine Archaeological Museum Sea Scrolls in 1947. The goatskin compositions of David, reporting
in Jordan. The psalm had been scroll is well preserved except that he wrote 2,050 psalms. The
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Both the 1947 and 1956 finds David's compositions were meant.
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scroll, found with other parch- were made by Bedouins in a cave
Dr. Sanders said the date of
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the Colgate-Rochester Divinity fragments of Hebrew texts of The American Schools of Oriental
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City-Wide and
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The five psalms are among 44 lation of parts of the Book of Job publish this spring a detailed
Larry Paul
psalms in Hebrew preserved on into Aramaic. a language used in article on the work by Dr. San- Free Estimates
a goatskin scroll, dating back to ancient Israel some 1,900 years ders and a complete study will
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LONDON — There are now
about 1,000 Jews in Madrid,
according to an interview given
British press representatives in
the Spanish capital by Dr.
Solomon Gaon, Chief Sephardic
Rabbi .of Britain and the Com-
monwealth. who has been visit-
ing the Madrid Jewish com-
munity.
Gaon said he attended a
Sabbath e"e service last Friday
night in the small synagogue at
Madrid. which accommodates
about 220 worshipers.
The synagogue is located on
the second floor of a building
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in the old part of Madrid. It
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was opened in October of 1959
for the first Jewish religious
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service in the Spanish capital
in 468 years.
An ovation was accorded Prof. of the Assembly interrupted him, -OK
Describing the progress being
made between Jews and Chris- !Rodrigues Fabrigat, representa- :saying: "You have three more
tians in Snain. Gaon said there tine of Uruguay to the United minutes to finish your speech." -ir
"I cannot be treated like a
is a Christian-Jewish Instittite Nations, who addressed a gather-
in Madrid with a library which ing in New York under the aus- three-minute soft boiled egg,
pices
of
the
United
Zionist-Re-
Mr. Chairman, especially when 4c
plans soon to publish a diction-
CHILDREN'S COSTUMES
ary in the old Spanish tongue, ; visionists of America at the Astor the destiny of a people is at
1Hotel.
which the Sephardic Jews have
stake!" cried Fabright. He con- lc
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preserved in exile since their
tinned talking, and at 6:05 it
n e i lchairun aRnA f Dtrh. e N a ti o n
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expulsion froth Spain at the CoTu h
Joseph B. was announced that President 4c
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Madrid Jews nublish a periodi- ian, pointed out that Fabrigat's visional Government of Israel. 4e
cal called "Sefarad," Gaon re- relations with the Jewish people
Fabrigat also told the audience
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ported.
is already becoming a legend about his meetings with the late
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Gaon reported that Spanish among them. When the question Prof. Weizmann. with Premier
consuls abroad have instruc- of the partition of Palestine, Ben-Gurion and others, and dis-
tions from their government to under the British mandate, was closed that that piece of history
issue visas to Spanish Sephardic first brought to the UN in 1947, was being put in a book, to be
Jews wishing to emigrate. Some Fabrigat was appointed to the published shortly.
or the Sephardic Jews of UN Special Committee for Pal-
Fabrigat took his leave of the * King Crown
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Morocco have recently migrated estine, the UNSCOP.
New York audience as he was 4, King's Mask
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and Mask
to Spain. Gaon said.
being
appointed
his
country's
Fabrigat visited DP camps and
ambassador
to
Austria.
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Palestine. It was on his initiative
Sempre Israel" were his final :
Survey Fctimates
that the UN asked the British
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In an emotional speech, the
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Exception was taken with a Jewish destiny and problems.
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figure of 282,000 published in As a child his father, who was
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10 to 5
The Sentinel undertook to ob- in Uruguay, used to read him
tain an accurate total by comput- ! accounts about the Dreyfus
Smart men travel miles to take advantage of our low-
ing population based on deaths, Case. It made a profound im-
a method frequently employed pression on him. Further, his
overhead discount policy . . . to choose from our 10,000
when exact counts are not pos- father explained that it was
garment selection . . . and to enjoy the prestige of
sible. -
also a blot on Latin American
wearing QUALITY clothes while they pocket the
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savings of our famous discount prices.
the leading Jewish mortuary in Island as a prison for Euro-
Chicago that 3,175 Jewish funer- pean criminals.
als were announced in the obitu-
Visiting Israel during the fight
Cu s tom. S
ary columns of Chicago daily of the Jewish Underground,
newspapers during 1961. To this Fabrigat, together with the late
data was added deaths which Enrique Granados, member of
were not so advertised. The cus- UNSCOP, managed to evade
tomary figure is about five per British surveillance and met with
cent. This would establish about the commander of the Irgun Zvai
3,300 Jewish deaths in 1961 in Leumi, Menahem Begin. This
Chicago.
proved to be a turning point in
Using the estimate of 9.1 his conception of the struggle in
deaths per 1.000 population, The Palestine.
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Sentinel projected the number
He found circumstances sim-
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of Jews in Chicago to be "at
ilar to the struggle for freedom
least 302.500."
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in his own country, Uruguay,
As a check on this projec-
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He related a dramatic moment
Conservative and Reform con-
gregations in Chicago, a total when, in November, 1947, the
vote for partition of Palestine
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of 48,200 families.
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rigat
heard
from
private
sources
1962 colors in traditionally
average of 3.65 persons per fam-
fine models.
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that
President
Truman
would
ily. this gives us a grand total
of 351,800 Jews in the Chicago recognize the Provisional Govern-
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area.
"All these figures are, of same day. The problem was to
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