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Show RABBIS AND LAYMEN HOLDING CONFERENCE JERUSALEM. Feh. 2. (Jewish Telegraph Agency).-e-8lr Herbert' Bam-luel. Bam-luel. the high commissioner, in opening todsy a conference of seventy-one rabbis and thirty-five representative laymen who met to elect a supreme rabbinate and a Jewish court of appeale. expressed ex-pressed the hope that the conference would help to bind mora closely the scattered forces of Israel. ' The conference will deliberate also on the question of adapting the Jewish legal code to modern times and consider con-sider the status of women. |