Ten qualified rabbis will shortly become World Zionist Organization shlichim in Brazil. Chile, Argentina, Australia, Denmark and South Africa, having this week ended a six-month preparatory course here. The rabbis, all army veterans, will serve in Jewish communities in these countries for two-year periods, under the aegis of the WZO.
Yosef Almogi, WZO chairman, attended the rabbis end-of-course celebration in Jerusalem and praised their intended missions. “The Jewish communities in these places need spiritual succor like air to breathe.” Almogi declared. “Your mission is like a life-giving drug to them.” The rabbis-shlichim studied ritual slaughter, circumcision, sermonizing, writing Sifrei Tora and tefilin, laws of mikvaot and laws of kashrut during their six-month crash course. All of them are yeshiva graduates and were ordained rabbis before embarking on the course. Their wives, too, had separate programs to teach them how to make their best contributions to their husbands’ projected missions.
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