For what is said to be the first time in history, synagogues and churches in the metropolitan area will offer a common prayer for the oppressed of the earth this Saturday and Sunday. The prayer will be repeated Sunday night at a mass meeting in the Madison Square Garden.
The prayer has been requested jointly by the American Christian Committee for German Refugees, headed by Dr. S. Parkos Cadman; the Committee for the Relief and Liberation of Victims of Persecution in Europe, headed by Matthew Woll, and the New York Board of Jewish Ministers, of which Rabbi Samuel J. Levinson is president.
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