Jews who desire to make easy their path to life by adopting Christianity will no longer be able to do so, if a movement started by a Catholic faction in Kiel is successful.
This group is opposing the collection of money by the Konsistorium for a Jewish mission. You can’t de-Judaize a man by religion, as Jewishness is more than faith, they contend, and a baptized Jew remains one, “internally”.
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