Dear Brethren, From a letter dated the 28th March 1963 addressed by the Vice-President of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of India to Mr. David Abraham Mazagaonker, it is understood that the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and the Rabbinical Council of America in collaboration with the Israeli Religious Ministry and the Jewish Agency in Israel are arranging to depute to Bombay, at the request of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of India, two Rabbis of whom one is to stay for a period of one month and the other for four months. Arrangements are also being made to get a third Rabbi to stay in India for at least two years before the second Rabbi leaves the shores of India. We are told by the Orthodox Union of India that these Rabbis will be placed at the disposal of the entire community for all their religious problems, and to guide the community in the way of observing the different Misvoth and ceremonies, to attend to the husband-wife disputes, arrange Get whenever necessary and also conversion according to the terms of Halacha. Our committee has, therefore, attempted to put forward their viewpoints for the consideration of those Bene-Israel institutions who have not yet been bought over by foreign monetary help. The Bene-Israel have been brought up, during the last two thousand years of their sojourn in India, more on faith and love for Judaism. As they were isolated from the main body of Jews owing to lack of means of communication till the end of the last century, they were altogether unaware of the Halacha which grew outside Palestine. Hence they could not have been expected to pay sufficient, in fact any, attention to the ritual calculus. Though they may have assimilated several local social customs and adopted the local language, as is natural all over the world, their whole religion centered around Torah. But even while living among the idolaters not only did they strictly reject idol worship, but also retained certain p…