Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef sent cables to all chief rabbis around the world urging them to press their governments to demand from Iraqi authorities that the slain Kashkosh family receive proper Jewish burial rites. Rabbi Yosef also announced a special prayer service which he will conduct in their memory on May 13 and urged Jewish communities abroad to hold services at the same time–6 p.m. Israel time. Rabbi Yosef also urged his fellow clerics to press for the release of Dori Kashkosh.
(In New York, the Rabbinical Alliance of America sent telegrams to the Iraqi Consulate and to U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers urging that the bodies of the murdered Kashkosh family be given burials according to Jewish law. The telegrams also urged that Dori Kashkosh be released from Iraq and that the remaining Jews who are now in prison be released.)
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