The love Eliezer Borman, a pious 60-year-old Jew, bears to Palestine is so great, the Express says here, and his urge to get there so insistent, that he finally h## upon a novel scheme to help him fulfil his aim.
When repeated efforts to obtain a certificate or even a tourist visa failed, Borman decided to become a convert, enter Palestine with a party of non-Jews, and there become reconverted to Judaism, the aged Jew is said to have declared.
Michael Cashmore, who served as president of the Melbourne Congregation, came to Australia in 1838.
The twelfth century Casimir the Just of Poland protected the Jews from oppression at the hands of the nobles.
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