A day of prayer for Russia will be observed in all synagogues throughout England this week-end. Instructions to this effect were issued today by Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz in connection with similar observances which will be held in all British churches on Sunday.
“The sons and daughters of English Jewry share the friendly feelings for the Russian people,” Chief Rabbi Hertz’s proclamation ordering the day of prayer stated. “The Nazi fiends are daily exterminating thousands of our brethren. In all civilized lands there is a universal chorus of sympathy for the doomed victims, but so far there is well nigh universal inaction. It is the hope of all good men that victory of the Soviet armies will strengthen the forces of liberalism and humanity which are strangely paralyzed with fatal results for multitudes of Jewish man and women.”
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