observed’ which means to those of the Jewish faith that they will be welcome and feel at home, and at the same time means to the Christians that they will not, and cannot feel thoroughly at home, even though as the good Rabbi Mendoza has said to me they will feel welcome.”
Asked to comment on this explanation of the hotel’s policy, Dr. E. N. Calisch, of Beth Ahabab Synagogue, scored it as “pitiful and misleading” and pointed out that use of the words “kosher” and “dietary laws observed'” did not even remotely imply discrimination of the sort understood by the words “Gentiles only.” He said the phrases are “precisely as though a hotel or restaurant advertised Southern cooking.”
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