A sixty-piece band from the nearby Catholic church of Our Lady of Loretto participated in a parade in Brooklyn which celebrated the dedication of a Torah of the United Sephardic Synagogue. The gayly-uniformed boys and girls led off the parade that included, beside congregation members, detachments from the local American Legion and Masonic chapters.
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