Baron Alain De Rothschild, president of the Consistoire Central Israelite de France Et d’Algerie arrived today on the invitation of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America to study the structure and methods of the American Jewish community. Rabbi Joseph Karasick, president of the Union who met with leaders of French Jewry in Paris last June, said the major problem is the doubling of the Jewish population in France through the influx of more than 200,000 Jews from Algeria and other North African countries during the past 10 years.
As a result, Rabbi Karasick said, the French Jewish community has been faced with overwhelming problems of establishing synagogues, schools, communal centers and other institutions for the newcomers and staffing them with trained personnel. There is a great shortage of rabbis, religious and Hebrew teachers and social and youth workers in France, Rabbi Karasick said.
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