A proposal that the sixteenth day of the Hebrew month Cheshvan, marking the day when the pogroms in Germany broke out (Nov. 10), be established as a permanent day of mourning in the Jewish calendar was made today by the Rabbinical Council of Rumania, which decided to approach the rabbinates in Britain and Palestine with the suggestion. The meeting, over which Chief Rabbi Jakob Niemirower presided, proclaimed Nov. 23 as a day of fast.
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