A party of 21 Egyptian Jewish boys are preparing to come to the United States to attend the Mirrer Yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York, Rabbi Abraham Kalmanowitz, president of the institution, announced today.
Rabbi Kalmanowitz said he had received a cable from the Chief Rabbinate of Cairo telling him that the youths had been granted visas to attend the yeshiva and asked that passage and accommodations be provided. The granting of the visas culminated months of activities in Washington and Cairo by Rabbi Kalmanowitz and representatives of the yeshiva.
The 21 had been students at Yeshiva Akaba Ve Ahva which was closed last November when the Nasser regime began its persecution of the Egyptian Jewish community. The Mirrer Yeshiva, 141 years old, was originally located in Poland whence its faculty and students fled during the Nazi occupation.
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