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16/H
21 June 1928
Subject: Regarding the case of Eliyahu Qaldarji
His Excellency the Honorable Minister of Justice
Greetings,
Reference is made to your letter No. A/9/827 dated 27 May 1928
and the petition attached herewith.
It is clear from the course of the lawsuit that was presented in the Spiritual Court that the person named Eliyahu son of Ezra had sheltered his wife and reconciled with her on 26 Av (Hebrew) of the year 5687, and she gave birth to a child on 15 Shevat (Hebrew) 5688. According to the claimant's admission, it must be mentioned here that Mosaic Law states:
1) A newborn whose gestation period is seven months is a legitimate child of his parents.
2) The calculated seven months include the month of union and the month of birth, regardless of the number of days in these two months. For further clarification, we provide an example from the case under discussion: the husband Eliyahu joined his wife on 26 Av and the woman gave birth on 15 Shevat. Therefore, if we want to determine the child's age, we must count Av, Elul, Tishrei, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, so the son's age is seven months and he is a legitimate son of his parents.
After reviewing what we have mentioned and based on the legal texts, the Spiritual Court has considered the son to be the legitimate child of his parents.
With highest respect to Your Excellency;
Attachment: Petitioner's petition
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Representative of the Hakham Bashi
Justice
Sh. L.
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SGPS... 260... 477... 1,000 Pads... 8-8-25.
G. F. 12.
General Form (12)
FROM: President of the Baghdad Court of First Instance
To: Spiritual Head of the Israelite Community
No.: 10772
Dated: 24 July 928
Corresponding to:
Memorandum.
Please inform us of the result of the lawsuit formed between Eliyahu bin Ezra al-Qandariji
and Lamia bint Eliyahu, before the trial date falling on 31 July 928.
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The President
J. Y.
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Ministry of Justice, Case of Al-Qandariji
10/17
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Comparative table of primary school examination results in community schools for the year 1937/38
School | Apprenticeship | Shamoun | Shamash | Menashi Saleh | Masuda Salman | National | Nouriel | Laura Kadoorie
General Average | 71.51 | 68.34 | 67.86 | 67.35 | 67.10 | 66.40 | 61.99 | 60.36
English | (1-1) 83.75 Louisa | (3-6) 70.45 Abdullah | (1-7) 78.76 Zeloof | (5-8) 63.00 ⟦the Albansam⟧ | (3-7) 69.00 Zeloof (Menashi) | (2-5) 74.60 Haddad Meir | (1-4) 75.15 Darwish | (1-2) 79.79 Cohen Lisa
Geometry | (2-3) 83.10 Zalkha | (1-3) 83.45 Twina | (2-6) 77.92 Basri | (1-1) 85.02 Lawi | (1-4) 82.00 Haddad (Shamoun) | (1-5) 79.10 Abdul Sattar | (3-7) 67.94 Darwish | (2-8) 66.11 Haddad
Arithmetic | (3-1) 79.79 Zalkha | (3-5) 70.45 Twina | (4-6) 69.12 Basri | (3-3) 73.00 Lawi | (2-2) 74.16 Haddad (Shamoun) | (3-4) 71.20 Sabri | (4-7) 65.84 Darwish | (4-8) 57.78 Haddad
Arabic | (4-1) 76.57 Abdul Ahad | (2-3) 74.53 Kabay | (3-4) 73.16 Zakaria | (2-2) 74.90 Shmeil | (4-6) 67.74 Deebie | (4-7) 67.24 Haddad (Shaul) | (2-5) 70.43 Darwish | (3-8) 62.67 Haddad
Geography | (5-2) 64.97 Zalkha | (4-1) 65.75 Rushdi | (5-5) 63.24 Yusuf | (4-6) 63.00 Ezra | (5-3) 64.50 Habiba | (5-4) 64.01 Rushdi | (5-7) 59.50 Darwish | (6-8) 55.54 Farah
Science | (6-1) 63.57 Zalkha | (5-2) 61.70 Naim | (6-3) 59.06 Douri | (6-3) 61.30 Salim | (6-4) 61.00 Dahan | (6-5) 59.82 Haddad (Ezra) | (7-7) 57.38 Shamoun | (5-8) 56.00 Haddad
History | (7-4) 60.79 Zalkha | (6-2) 61.20 Cohen | (7-1) 63.14 Zakaria | (4-3) 63.00 Ezra | (7-5) 60.66 Deebie | (7-6) 59.52 Haddad (Ezra) | (6-7) 57.37 Shamoun | (8-8) 51.45 Farah
Civics | (8-1) 60.30 Zalkha | (7-2) 60.00 Twina | (7-3) 59.52 Yusuf | (7-5) 57.00 Ezra | (8-4) 57.08 Dahan | (8-6) 56.52 Khalaschi | (8-7) 54.87 Shamoun | (7-8) 53.47 Farah
Note: The first number in brackets indicates the subject ranking among all schools, and the second number indicates the subject ranking within the school
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Newspaper :: ⟦Al-Shaab⟧
Number :: 1820
Date :: 25/1/51
7-7-51
Iraq and the Jews
Soviets
Protest of the Mayor of Jerusalem
Against the deportation of Iraqi Jews
The Near East station reported yesterday that Arif Pasha al-Arif, Mayor of Jerusalem
has sent a telegram to Monsieur Lie, Secretary-General of the United Nations, complaining about the policy
of Iraq in allowing Iraqi Jews to renounce their citizenship and emigrate to Israel.
He said: The Arab countries' retention of Jews within them will help solve the Palestine problem in
general and the Arab refugee problem in particular.
Iraq and the Jews
Soviets
The American New York Times newspaper says
that among the complex issues
that Israel has faced in the recent
period is the pressure exerted by
the Iraqi government to speed up the
process of moving Jews from Iraq. For
emigration from Iraq is currently proceeding
at a rate of approximately 4,000 people
per month, and if travel continues at
this rate, the process of moving
Iraqi Jews will take at least two years.
The article also mentioned that it is not
within Israel's intention to stop the immigration of Jews
to it, even though the new immigrants are
one of the causes of the crisis it suffers from today
in the economic situation. Also, there is no
political party calling for
changing the current immigration system.
The American newspaper says regarding
Russian Jews that although the
Soviet government has not allowed Jews
there to emigrate, it is inferred from
available information and reports that 80-
90 percent of these people wish to
travel to Israel, and the number of
Jews in the Soviet Union is estimated
at between two and three
million.
The magazine also says that 38,580
applications to leave the country were submitted to the
government of Israel until the end of
1950, and this number equals approximately 3 percent
of the total who have entered Israel
so far.
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The Israeli Lay Council
Baghdad
Number 141
Date 15 May 1927
To the Honorable Director of the Midrashim Talmud Torah
After greetings. With reference to your letter dated 21 March 927, the Council has decided in its session held
on 13 May 927 to approve the acceptance of the teachers Gurji Shaul and Salman Gurji for the future in the
Midrash school in the vacant positions starting from this date, with respect.
Vice President
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The Jewish Lay Council
Baghdad
Number 181
Date: April 1, 1937.
The Honorable Director of the Midrash Talmud Torah
Greetings.
Based on the account submitted by A. J. Brunman, we have processed against your account the sum of four hundred and twenty
two rupees and two (422/2) for the travel expenses of three teachers for the Midrash School and for the Kan De La Dim school, and that
is from the original amount that the Council had previously lent for the travel expenses of teachers from Jerusalem to Baghdad. Accordingly,
the aforementioned claim will be deducted directly as an offset from the allocations of the Midrash School. With respect;
President
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Department of the Military Magistrate
7 August 1918
To the presence of the respected Hakhambashi Effendi
After greetings. When you informed me that you had collected half a rupee on each
sheep in excess and requested giving the mentioned amount to the poor or to
the hospital, I think a misunderstanding occurred because I think the Koda officer
requested from you the collection of fees. Therefore, I ask you to pay the
Koda officer this fee, which is half a rupee for each sheep, and this fee does not belong
to the municipality. Please accept my highest respects and peace.
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The Loving
Deputy Military Governor
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Your Excellency the Chairman
I send you my kind and respectful greetings. A person
has come to the department to purchase the iron fence removed from the cemetery
and kept with the guards there, and he paid ⟦20/-⟧ Dinars
and I have received from him a sort of ⟦deposit⟧ on the condition
that we obtain the approval of your esteemed committee, otherwise the
amount shall be returned to him the day after the ⟦session⟧ of your esteemed committee
Under orders, please.
Sincerely
12/9
Note
Based on the review of the engineer, Mr. Saleh Yousef, and the master craftsman
Alwan. The aforementioned individuals informed us that the government is still
removing some of the fence and that the guards are collecting it with the fence
removed previously, and therefore you may agree to postpone the sale
until all the fencing is collected so that we can offer it in a sale tender
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Date 10/22/1952
His Excellency the Chairman of the Administrative Committee, respected
Subject: Cemetery scrap iron (the fence)
Based on your order and after the removal of the fence was stopped, we offered it for sale and
the highest price offered to ⟦us⟧ was 35.000 Dinars. Therefore, we request your instructions in this regard and
thank you.
Accountant
His Excellency the President
One of the brokers in the sales department visited us accompanied by
a buyer and paid us an amount of -/20 Dinars for the mentioned fence
provided that he buys the ton for an amount of -/20 Dinars only. This and
we have received from him an amount of ten Dinars as a deposit pending your opinion
until we receive your orders for sale or otherwise.
The Collectors
Decision No. 8 dated
10/28
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Your Excellency the President
Based on Your Excellency's order, we have registered in ⟦the name of⟧ ⟦the committee⟧ of the
Saleh Sasson Daniel School in Hillah, the amount of 14965/650 Dinars
specifically for this purpose under the heading of the aforementioned school's consumption.
And we have withdrawn from it the necessary expenses. For current wages and others
from the mentioned consumption. This, and in view of the existence of previous rents
accruing from one year to another amounting to approximately ⟦400⟧ / ⟦860⟧ Dinars
⟦in which⟧ ⟦one is occupied⟧ with the matter, either by keeping it as it is under the school's name
or merging it with the rest of the mentioned consumption. Please accept my respect.
The Accountant
10/28
The accounts are not to be taken
And the amount remains, so it stays as it is
⟦Signature⟧
10/29
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His Excellency the President of the Administrative Committee of the Israeli Community in Baghdad, Respectfully
Subject:
I have been suffering from hemorrhoids and fistula for a long time, and despite my treatment
by the most skilled doctors in Iraq, my condition has become very
bad to the point that I cannot manage my private affairs. A
specialist doctor recently advised me of the necessity of traveling
outside of Iraq for treatment and recovery. Since my health condition
does not help me to travel and I have no assistant to secure
my livelihood and handle my private affairs, etc., and my health condition
has worsened now ⟦my situation⟧, I beg you to look into my case with
compassion and to make arrangements with one of the hospitals to keep me there
under the supervision of a specialist doctor to ensure my comfort,
health, and treatment, and to save me from the torment and hardships
that I am facing at the present time. With respect,
Your obedient servant
Salim Ezra Souri
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11/2/1956
Administrative Committee of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number 5452
Number: M / ⟦782⟧ / 56
Date: ⟦25⟧ / 9 / 1956
Subject Summary:
Administrative Order
Further to our administrative order numbered M/365 dated 29 / 5 / 1956,
The Administrative Committee approved ⟦considering⟧ the extension of the regular leave for the engineer Mr. Saleh Yusuf
from 6 / 6 / 1956 until 12 / 8 / 1956.
The President
⟦signature⟧
A copy to:
The Engineer Mr. Saleh Yusuf
The Accountant
The Personal File
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The Administrative Committee of the Jewish Community
In Baghdad
Telephone Number 5452
Number: M/506
Date: 20 / 11 / 1956
Subject Summary: ⟦line⟧
Administrative Order
The Administrative Committee agreed in its session held on 19 / 11 / 1956 to increase
the salary of Mr. Salim Abdullah Gabbay, Accountant of the Community Presidency, from 57/- Dinars to 60/-
Dinars monthly (42/- Dinars nominal salary and 18/- Dinars cost of living allowance) and that is
effective from 1 / 11 / 56.
The President
⟦signature⟧
A copy of it to: -
1 - The Accountant to act accordingly
2 - The Employee concerned
3 - The Personal File
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