Three recently ordained French rabbis have come to the United States for the first Orthodox-sponsored program in this country for post-graduate study and rabbinical field work by foreigners. The graduates of the Ecole Rabbinique Seminaire Israelite de France are Rabbis Claude Zaffran, Roger Touitou and Alain Guedj. They will remain here through the fall under a program of inter-communal cooperation arranged in 1968 by Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and the Consistoire Central, the central Jewish community of FRENCH Consistoire Central, the central Jewish community of French Jewry. Also cooperating are Yeshiva University and the Rabbinical Council of America. The program is designed to provide an understanding of the well-developed system of the U.S. Orthodox Jewish community and its institutions which the rabbis may utilize in their own communities.
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