The scheduled departure next month of Rabbi Egon Lubliner from this city to become spiritual leader of the Pestalozi Street Synagogue in West Berlin will leave Chile’s community of 35,000 Jews without a rabbi. At one time there were five rabbis–four in Santiago and one in Valparaiso–but over a number of years rabbis have been leaving to take posts in other countries. The Jewish communal organizations have sent out distress signals to Jewish communities in other South American countries asking them to help fill the vacuum. There is some hope that the Rabbinical Seminary in Buenos Aires can send at least one rabbi to Santiago which has a Jewish population of 30,000. There are 4,000 Jews in Valparaiso.
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