Rabbi Lazarus Axelrod has resigned his position as rabbi to Congregation Beth Jacob, of Miami Beach after serving that community for nearly three years. Rabbi Axelrod is a graduate of the Hebron Rabbinical Seminary.
Due to restrictions in the publication of obituaries of Jews, there is no way to establish the number of Jewish suicides in Germany, but it is estimated there the number runs into dozens every day. The German press, which hitherto listed all suicides, has ceased registering them, and even paid obituaries of Jews are no longer printed. The Berliner Tageblatt, now totally Nazi in policy, contains no reports on the spread of suicides, which is especially prevalent among the older generation, tragically disappointed in its rooted German patriotism, unable to live through the present discriminations. Suicide is particularly heavy, too, among the intellectual classes, who cannot bear the idea of living on the charity of soup kitchens.
Rabbi Lazarus Axelrod has resigned his position as rabbi to Congregation Beth Jacob, of Miami Beach after serving that community for nearly three years. Rabbi Axelrod is a graduate of the Hebron Rabbinical Seminary.
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