The new home of the Italian Rabbinical College was dedicated here today in a ceremony in the presence of Italian Jewish leaders from all parts of Italy.
The building, which also houses several Jewish institutions, was erected with the financial and technical aid of the Joint Distribution Committee and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff stressed the spiritual importance of the college at the ceremony. He stressed the hope that it would produce not only needed rabbis but also laymen who would in their everyday lives support and further Judaism. Officials of the Israeli Embassy, and of the JDC and the World Jewish Congress attended the ceremony.
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