The Executive of the Jewish Community issued instructions to synagogues today to include in Sabbath services tomorrow a condemnation of the murder of Wilhelm Gustloff, Swiss Nazi leader, by a Yugoslavian Jew as a “contradiction to the teachings of the Jewish religion and the ethics of the Jewish people.”
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