What is described as an organized move to oust apostates from positions where they could be regarded as the representatives of the Jewish community was made in the elections this week of a new board for the Budapest Bar Association.
The board is usually composed of fifty percent. Christian lawyers and fifty percent. Jewish lawyers. In recent years a large number of apostate Jews in the legal profession were elected to the board, being counted as part of the fifty percent. allotted to Jews. At the last elections held this week, Jewish lawyers of Budapest united to strike the apostates off the Jewish list. The Hungarian Jewish weekly “Egyenloeseg,” declares that this is the first organized step on the part of the Jewish community against the apostates, whose number has of late greatly increased.
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