A bitter attack on the New York Yiddish press for its fight on the Soviet religious war is contained in today’s “Emes,” the organ of the Jewish communists of Moscow. The paper also attacks the American Jewish Congress and Dr. Joseph Hertz, Chief Rabbi of England.
In a front page cartoon, Dr. Hertz is pictured with a huge pig blessing him. The pig is crudely drawn to resemble the Pope, a reference to Dr. Hertz’s indirect connection with the Pope’s anti-Soviet crusade.
The Jewish communists are extremely bitter because of Dr. Hertz’s long opposition to the Russian Soviet regime. Only recently a large financial offer from the London Jewish Federation to help the Jews in the Ukraine, to the Comzet, the Soviet government department for settling the Jews on the land, was refused because Dr. Hertz is president of the Federation.
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