Jews played an important role in the recent municipal elections in the various cities and towns of Ontario. Besides David Kroll, prominent Jewish barrister who was elected mayor of Windsor, another Jew, Aaron Horowitz, was re-elected chief magistrate of Cornwall for a second term.
Sam Mayerovitch was elected a member of the Rockland town council after having served eight years as trustee of the Rockland Public School Board and the last four years as its chairman. The Jewish alderman gained his seat in the Town Council by a large majority, though 90 percent of the Rockland population is French (many of them readers of the Goglu and other anti-Semitic publications) and the Mayerovitches the only Jewish family in the town where the elder Mayerovitch settled 23 years ago.
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