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300 Brave Rockaway Storm to Attend Mass Meeting on Boycott

February 27, 1934
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Three hundred people braved inclement weather here last night to attend a boycott Gemonstration arranged by the Jewish Council of the Rockaways and the Rackaway Beach Post of the Jewish War Veterans of America at the Jewish Community Center here.

The gathering, after hearing Municipal Court Justice William P. Morris declared that Nazi persecution of the Jews had aroused people all over the world, nonJews as well as Jews, and speeches by Asher Zeide, Rabbi Robert R. Gordis, of Rockaway Park, Rabbi Henry Fisher of Arverne and others, adopted resolutions supporting the boycott and expressing protest at discriminations against the Jews in Germany.

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