The first group of rabbinical students to be graduated since the Nazi occupation of Hungary was ordained here today in the building of the Rabbinical College, which was the scene of many horrors during the pro-Nazi regime when it was converted into an internment camp for Jews.
Seven rabbis were ordained. They will be sent to provincial Jewish communities where there is an acute shortage of spiritual leaders, since most of Hungary’s rabbis perished in death camps.
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