A protest meeting against the four-year imprisonment sentence imposed upon Philip Halsman, Jewish student, on the charge of patricide, has been arranged by the Austrian League for Human Rights. Christians who join in the general Jewish sentiment here in insisting upon Philip Halsmann’s innocence, will address the meeting.
The youth, facing four years in prison, emphatically declined his mother’s plea that he ask pardon of President Hainisch. “I do not want to be pardoned, even if I have to serve 20 years in prison. I would not want the world to see a patricide pardoned. I did not kill my father-I loved him,” he declared.
Dedication of the Beth David Synagogue, Outremont, Canada, took place on Sunday, Mayor Joseh Beaubien, Joseph Cohen, K. C., Peter Bercovitch, K.C., Rev. J. R. Dobson, pastor of the St. Giles’ Presbyterian Church, were the speakers.
Rabbi Israel Weintraub died in Bufialo. He was the founder of Beth Israel Congregation in Buffalo.
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