After an interval of more than 450 years, a Sephardic rabbi, a descendant of the Jews who fled from Spain during the Inquisition, is leaving the United States tomorrow for Madrid, capital of Spain, to conduct High Holy Day services in the synagogue there.
Not since 1492, when the Jews were exiled from Spain, has any rabbi conducted services in Madrid, which now has a Jewish congregation and a synagogue, it was declared here today. The American rabbi who will conduct the services there this Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur is Rabbi D.A. Jessurun Cardoza, until recently spiritual head of the Sephardic Jewish Center of the Bronx. It is estimated that 3,000 Jews now live in Spain, 2,000 of them in Barcelona.
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