With solemn ritual, several hundred religious books, some of them 200 years old, were buried at the Jewish Waldheim Cemetery, here. The volumes were the remains of damage suffered at the library of the Congregation Chevro Machzikai Hadas, here, when a bomb exploded in the synagogue last January 1.
The services at the book burial were conducted by Rabbi Julius D. Goldman, spiritual leader of the damaged synagogue. According to Rabbi Goldman, some of the religious books in the damaged synagogue’s library had been saved, and will be rebound when the necessary funds are obtained.
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