The Jewish Agency will open a yeshiva at the British resort town of Ramsgate for training Sephardic rabbis and teachers for communities in various parts of the world, particularly in North Africa, Rabbi Zeev Gold, head of the Agency’s religious education department, announced here today. The school, which has the support of the World Union of Sephardic Communities, will begin sessions in October with 25 to 40 students from North Africa, Dr. Gold said.
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