Count de Artaza, Minister at the Spanish Embassy here, denied today reports that the Spanish Government had discriminated against Jews in Spain by denying them the right to hold High Holiday services.
In a letter to the Agudas Israel World Executive, Count de Artaza scored “untrue” press reports and stated that the “Jewish communities in Madrid and Barcelona held their traditional religious services on the occasion of the recent Jewish New Years festival in their synagogues without any interference whatsoever.”
(Reports at Rosh Hashanah this year pointed out that the Madrid police had barred services at a hotel in the Spanish capital, but noted that services were permitted in the tiny Madrid synagogue, in which fewer than 100 persons can worship.)
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