The Jewish community of Algiers completed plans today to bury the Torah scrolls which were desecrated in the rioting two weeks ago in the ancient synagogue of the Casbah quarter.
The plans, prepared by the Jewish Consistory of Algiers, call for a silent procession of the community to accompany the ravished scrolls through the city’s streets from the synagogue to the Jewish cemetery. There will not be any speeches. In accordance with Jewish ritual, the prayer for the dead will be recited.
It was expected that the Algiers Chief Rabbi, possibly in conjunction with Christian and Moslem clerics, will issue a call for calm and for inter communal understanding.
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