Almost four years after Communist pressure forced the 1,250 Jews in East Berlin to pull out of their association with their fellow-Jews in West Berlin, officers of the two communities met officially for the first time to discuss common Jewish problems.
One of them is the steady decline in membership of the East Berlin community which consists mainly of elderly people with almost no children on the communal lists. There are 4,500 Jews in West Berlin.
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