The Jewish congregations of Muenchen-Gladbach and of Rheydt have been merged into a single community at a membership meeting attended by a majority of the Jewish residents in the neighboring industrial cities. Chairman of the new community, which will seek to obtain the status of a corporation under public law, is Kurt Hecht.
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