Memorial services for the victims of the Palestine outbreak were held at the Great Synagogue Sunday night.
“Some tragedies are too deep for tears, some calamities too vast for lamentation,” said Chief Rabbi Dr. J. H. Hertz. “The tragedy and calamity that has stirred the civilized world during the last fortnight is so striking that nearly all ecclesiastics in this country have been struck dumb and they have nothing to say. There have been some patronizing letters appearing in the press. I took them seriously and wrote to one, asking him to the Albert Hall protest meeting, but he replied that he could not very well come because he did not like the ‘insolence and aggressiveness of the Zionists.’ He had nothing to say of the hellish outrages and the continuous pogrom of the last ten days,” Dr. Hertz declared.
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