IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ

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Guys, i'm BEGGING you to PLEASE forward this email to everyone you know,

and

send a copy of the following letter to the Czech minister of culture. I

visited this cemetery when i went to Prague three years ago, and it was

a

truly emotional, haunting experience. Twelve layers of graves crammed

into

this tiny space, with ancient, often unreadable headstones falling over

one

another - the only Jewish cemetery in Prague, it holds the bodies of the

most

important members of the Prague Jewish community from the past 800

years.

The thought of them destroying is incredibly disturbing and upsetting.

So PLEASE send this out...thank you so much!

PS- 24ers: I added a personal paragraph about our visit to the cemetery

at

the end of the letter, and i urge you to do the same - there's a copy of

mine

at the bottom of the email if you don't have time to write your own. i

love

you all!!!

Please read and pass on!

The Jewish community in Prague is being pressured by the Czech

Government to allow the construction of residential properties on the

site of the old Jewish cemetery in the Jewish Quarter there. The 800-

year-old cemetery, which survived the Nazi destruction of Jewish

religious sites in Central and Eastern Europe, is the last of its

kind, and contains the grave of the Maharal of Prague (R. Yehudah

Loewy, 17th century scholar) and other Torah greats Prague's Chief

Rabbi Efraim Sidon has asked for Jews worldwide to take urgent action

to prevent the desecration of the cemetery.

Czech Minister of Culture Mr. Pavel Dorstal may be e-mailed at

Below is a sample letter which you can send. Simply copy and

paste it, and fill in your name and country at the bottom. Please

forward this letter to all you know.

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Dear Mr. Dorstal,

I am writing to you to protest the pressure being placed on

Prague's Jewish community by the Czech government, to allow

construction of residential properties on the site of the Jewish

cemetery in the Jewish Quarter of Prague. This ancient cemetery,

which survived the Nazi destruction of Jewish religious sites in

Central and Eastern Europe, is the last of its kind, and contains

the graves of many important Jewish scholars. As the Minister of

Culture in Czechoslovakia, I appeal to you to act immediately to

prevent the desecration of the cemetery.

Sincerely yours,

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