Delayed reports regarding anti-Jewish disturbances in the provinces on the Day of Atonement reached Berlin today.
At Beuthen, where the death sentence, later commuted, was passed on five Nazis, a large throng of boys surrounded the synagogue, shouting: “The heads of the Jews will roll”. Worshippers asked the boys to depart, but they could be prevailed upon to do so only by the police.
In Christburg, East Prussia, youths stoned a synagogue as the Kol Nidre services were in progress.
Rabbi Max Rothstein, of Fall River, Mass., has been elected to the pastorate of Temple Israel, at Lehighton, Pa. Rabbi Rothstein conducted the Yom Kippur services and was given a warm welcome.
Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the pianist and conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, has accepted a Directorship on the Advisory Board of the Community Center Conservatory of Music.
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