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Kehillah Intervenes in Forced Conversion

September 7, 1928
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(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

A protest on the part of the Jerusalem Kehillah was voiced against the forced conversion of a Jewish woman to the Islamic faith.

The woman, who came from Kurdistan, was a domestic servant in the home of an Arab police officer at Nablus. It was reported that the woman was compelled to embrace the Islamic faith.

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