(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A contribution has been made by Queen Wilhelmina for the repair of an old parocheth, (curtain for the ark) a relie of the Amersfoort synagogue.
The parocheth was given to the synagogue by Prince Wilhelm V on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the synagogue.
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