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Jews in Berlin's ghetto were forced to act in Horst Wessel last August by Storm Troopers who gave them "stones" (made of cork), ordered them to stone Nazi heroes. Overzealous, the Storm Troops pressed into service an especially hook-nosed rabbi. He turned out to be a citizen of Poland, thus creating a diplomatic incident. In a night club scene, according to the Horst Wessel script, "proud Jews behave overbearingly." A greedy Jew was made to wolf a fat goose in a restaurant scene, while at the next table a lean Nazi couple divided a herring. These features...
Oldest (32 years) and largest (400) of orthodox rabbi groups, the Agudath Harabonim (Union of Orthodox Rabbis of U. S. and Canada), met in Lakewood, N. J. last week to tackle money matters. Rabbis' salaries were running in arrears. For charities and schools there was a serious lack of ready cash. The Union voted to solve its financial problem by levying a tax on that cornerstone of orthodox Jewish life, the kosher slaughterhouse. It figured that if it could collect ½? on every pound of kosher meat sold. it could raise $1,000,000 or more in one year...
...nearly one half of all U. S. Jews there are about 6,500 kosher butcher shops. A kosher tax would be profitable, but whether the Agudath Harabonim could levy it effectively seemed doubtful. If all Jewish congregations approved it might be done by agreement with meat dealers. Or the rabbis could exert gentle pressure. Tho.ugh the rabbi does no slaughtering, which is the job of a trained and learned shochet, he or an assistant supervises it in the slaughterhouse, has the final say on what is kosher, what...
...most of them had a regular occupation beside their school work. This year's group is slightly older, and boasts of, as members, a banker, a druggist, an architect, a United States probation officer, an hotel manger, a statistician in the Federal Commerce Department, and a Rabbi. The cause for the decline is laid to the unsettled conditions of these businesses...
January 14 Rabbi Harry Levi, Temple Israel, Boston...