Correspondence between the Ministry of Justice and the President of the Jewish Community; School Materials
View interactive document pageThese documents contain correspondence between the Iraqi Ministry of Justice and the President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad regarding Jewish community laws and administrative committee members. Other documents pertain to the Jewish schools in Baghdad. Also included is an Iraqi Government request for a copy of the Torah from the Jewish Community for a court in Basra. These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.
Iraqi Government Ministry of Justice Accounting Department Number ⟦line⟧ Date / / 195 Subject Summary: The Torahs Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad Please provide us with one copy of the Torah to be supplied to the Settlement Court of Appeal in Basra and inform us of the value so that we may pay you. On behalf of the Director General of Justice ⟦Presidency of the Jewish Community⟧ Al-Shati
Presidency of the Israelite Community in Baghdad Telephone Number | 3531 President 5452 Secretary Number: T/ 56 Subject: Date: 2 / 2 / 1956 Excellency, Director General of Justice, Respected After greetings Reference to your letter numbered J 17/62 and dated 11/2/56, we present the Holy Bible (the Torah) in the Hebrew language to be provided to the Settlement Court of Appeal in Basra, and its value is 750 fils. Please accept the highest expressions of respect Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri Acting President of the Community
Presidency of the Jewish Community In Baghdad Telephone Number 3531 5452 Number T/ Date / / 18 Subject: His Excellency the Honorable Minister of Justice Greetings and Respect, I submit to your position the petition dated 1 / 6 / 956 and signed by the notables of the Mosaic community in Basra They requested my mediation by presenting its contents to your Excellency's attention. It is no secret that in the city of Basra there are about ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ Mosaics and their religious and cultural affairs are dissolved, as is the management of their endowments, so I ask Your Excellency to look upon them with kindness and to please ⟦illegible⟧ your authority under Article 17 of the Jewish Community Law No. 77 of 1931 by appointing an acting head of the community and a committee Administrative to act in place of the Lay Council, similar to the method you kindly followed in Baghdad, so that they can ⟦illegible⟧ their religious and cultural affairs and the management and supervision of their endowments. This, and please accept the highest respect. ⟦illegible signature⟧ Rabbi Sassoon Khadduri Acting President of the Community
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number { 3531
5452
Number: T / 3665 / ⟦illegible⟧
Date: 21 / 2 / 56
Subject:
To the Honorable Mr. Heskel Shaul Sodaee
Greetings,
We convey below a copy of the administrative order of the venerable Ministry of Justice No. 294 dated 21 / 2 / 956 appointing you
as a member of the Administrative Committee of the Jewish Community in Baghdad. On this occasion, we offer you our congratulations and pray to the Lord
to grant you success in carrying out the work entrusted to you.
Please accept our highest respect,
Rabbi Sassoon Khadhuri
Acting President of the Community
Copy to:-
The venerable Ministry of Justice, with reference to its administrative order No. 294 dated 21 / 2 / 956
Presidency of the Administrative Committee
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Iraqi Government
Ministry of Justice
Personnel Affairs Division
Date 21 / 2 / ⟦illegible⟧
Ministry of Justice Order No. (294).
With reference to our Ministerial Order No. 1944 dated 24 / 11 / 953, and following the death of Mr. Menashi Ibrahim Kashi, member of
the committee formed under our above-mentioned order for the purpose of managing what was entrusted to the Secular Council to perform according to the Law
of the Jewish Community No. 77 of 1933, we have decided to appoint Mr. Heskel Shaul Sodaee as a member of the said committee
instead of the aforementioned person, effective from the date of this order.
Minister of Justice
Iraqi Government Ministry of Justice Directorate of Personnel Affairs Date - 21 / 2 / 1956 Ministerial Order No. (294). Reference to our Ministerial Order No. 1944 dated 11/24/1953 Based on the death of Mr. Munshi Ibrahim Kashi, member of the committee formed by our order referred to above for the purpose of managing what was entrusted to the Lay Council to perform in accordance with the Law of the Jewish Community No. 77 of 1931, we have decided to appoint Mr. Heskel Shaul Soudayi as a member of the aforementioned committee instead of the person referred to, effective from the date of this order. ⟦illegible⟧ Minister of Justice A copy to:- Presidency of the Legal Drafting Bureau Directorate of General Police Governorate of Baghdad Province Directorate of General Guidance and Broadcasting - for publication in the Official Gazette Administration of the Jewish Community in Baghdad - your letter No. T/3658/56 dated 2/17/1956 Rabbi Sassoon Khidhouri - Acting Head of the Community Ministry Accounts Directorate
Iraqi Government Ministry of Justice Division of Personnel Matters Date - 21 / 2 / 1956 Ministry of Justice Order No. (294). Reference to our ministerial order No. 1144 dated 24 / 11 / 1953 Based on the death of Mr. Menashi Ibrahim Kashi, member of the committee formed by our order referred to above for the purpose of managing what was entrusted to the Lay Council to perform in accordance with the Law of the Jewish Community No. 77 of 1931, we have decided to appoint Mr. Heskel Shaul Soda'i as a member of the mentioned committee instead of the aforementioned person, effective from the date of this order. ⟦signature stamp⟧ Minister of Justice A copy to:- Presidency of the Legal Codification Bureau General Police Directorate Governorate of Baghdad Province Directorate of Guidance and General Broadcasting - for publication in the Official Gazette Administration of the Jewish Community in Baghdad - your letter No. T / 3658 dated 17 / 2 / 1956 Rabbi Sasson Khadhuri - Acting Head of the Community Ministry Accounts Directorate For information ⟦...⟧
FRANK INY SCHOOL Intermediate & Primary New Alwiyah - Baghdad TELEPHONE NO. 91693 FRANK INY SCHOOL Intermediate & Primary New Alwiyah - Baghdad Telephone: 91693 No. / 588 Date / 7 / 2 / 1956 Honorable President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad. Greetings. With reference to your call with us regarding some of our school's affairs, please take note of the following points. 1 - Some students previously visited this school's administration requesting to contact the competent departments to provide them with primary, intermediate, and secondary education certificates after they successfully passed the exams for these studies. This school's administration, at the time and on every occasion such a request occurred, wrote to the Ministry of Education regarding this matter. These students claimed that they were unable to receive their certificates, noting that the school administration, for its part, has not received such certificates from the Ministry of Education until now. 2 - It happened in the past that this school provided some ⟦students⟧ with school documents addressed to the Ministry of Education for the purpose of translating them into English and certifying them, in order to send them to some colleges abroad to obtain the necessary acceptance papers from those colleges before the student joins them. Some of these ⟦students⟧ claimed at the time that it was not possible for them to obtain such documents certified by the Ministry of Education. 3 - The Baghdad Education Directorate recently requested from this school's administration in its letter No. 5823 dated 25 / 2 / 1956 not to provide students with school documents for certification by Education for the purpose of presenting them to the recruitment departments except after obtaining confirmation from these departments of the request. Given what such transactions require in terms of time and follow-ups, please mediate with the Ministry of Education to approve the certification of ⟦such⟧ documents without the need to confirm the request of the competent departments, as was the practice in the past. 4 - Some of our school students have two names in their census books and non-revocation identities instead of one name. They were registered under one name when they joined this school by mistake, and the administration of this school will organize corrected lists with the names of these students after verifying their full names. Please mediate with the Ministry of Education to facilitate the completion of the ⟦names⟧ correction process when submitted to prevent confusion in the future. 5 - The Ministry of Education system stipulates conducting mid-year exams and final school exams for the first and second sessions at specific times of the academic year. Since our schools are late in opening their doors to students at the beginning of each academic year by approximately a month or three weeks compared to other schools due to religious holidays. Therefore, please mediate with the Ministry of Education to approve, in principle, delaying these exams in our school in the future, provided that informing the Ministry of Education of the dates of ⟦these⟧ exams in our schools a suitable period before they are held is sufficient, noting that the Ministry of Education has previously approved in the past on various occasions such a postponement. Please accept our highest respect. Abdullah Obadia The Director ⟦FRANK INY SCHOOL⟧ ⟦illegible⟧
Observation Ministry of Justice Division ⟦line⟧ Number ⟦8040⟧ Date 8 / 7 / 195 ⟦Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Iraq⟧ Subject Summary: The Holy Bible Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad We refer to your letter numbered T/56/6372 and dated 6 / 3 / 956 And we enclose herewith the payment authorization note numbered ( ⟦L/5000⟧ ) and dated 7 / 3 / 956 in the amount of ( 750/- ) seven hundred and fifty fils, for the value of the Holy Bible (the Torah), requesting the collection of its contents from the Central Treasury in Baghdad. ⟦illegible⟧ For the Minister of Justice ⟦11/7/56⟧ ⟦illegible signature⟧ Al-Shati
Number :: T/⟦1⟧ Date :: ⟦2 / 4 / 1956⟧ Subject :: His Excellency the Respectable Minister of Health Greetings and Respect The designated graduates of the Royal Medical College have not yet received their graduation certificates from the deanship of the aforementioned college, a matter which necessitated presenting the situation to your Excellency's attention; please kindly consider and instruct the aforementioned deanship to provide them with graduation certificates just like the rest of the students. With your Excellency's utmost gratitude and respect ⟦Urgent⟧ Rabbi Sassoon Khadhuri Acting President of the Community