(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The first breach in the one community principle, around which the interest of Palestine Jewry now centers, folowing the promulgation of the Palestine Communities Ordinance which granted internal autonomy to the Jewish communities in the National Home, was made today when the first separatist community of dissenters was registered with the authorities.
The fight against centralizing the authority in the Kenesseth Israel (general Jewish community) and the Vaad Leumi, the federation of communities, is being led by the ultra-Orthodox who under the Communities Ordinance are granted the right of forming separate congregations with separate Schechita boards and separate cemeteries. The first Orthodox congregation to be registered is the one consisting mainly of Gerer Chassidim, followers of the Chassidic Rabbi of Gora Kalwarjia, Poland, who reside in Jerusalem.
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