Sergio Piperno, president of the United Jewish Community of Italy, issued a directive today to all Italian Jewish communities to hold memorial services for the 43 Moroccan Jewish men, women and children who perished in a sea disaster January 11 en route to Israel,
In the directive, he referred to the tragedy as “the sorrowful consequence of the precarious situation of Moroccan Jewry. ” The Corriere Della Sera, Milan’s leading daily, discussed the plight of Moroccan Jews in a front page editorial and asked that the United Nations demand of Morocco that it respect the UN Charter and fundamental human rights.
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