Nearly 50,000 Polish Jews attend the existing 105 synagogues in the country and are organized in 55 religious communities, a detailed report on Jewish religious life in Poland which was released here today reveals. The report was compiled by the Federation of Jewish Religious Communities at the request of the Religious Department of the Ministry for Public Administration.
The lack of rabbis and shochtim in the religious communities has forced the Federation to open a school for the training of rabbis and ritual slaughterers. The rabbinical section is already open, while the courses for the shochtim are due to get under way shortly. Some 15 rabbinical students are now enrolled in the school and they are supported by a monetary grant from the Joint Distribution Committee.
Meanwhile, in another move to relieve the shortage of rabbis and shochtim, the Federation has appealed to the Rabbinate of Israel, Britain and to the central committees of the World Agudah and Mizrachi movements to send such personnel to Poland.
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