Pleading for the support of the second appeal by the Central British Fund committee, Chief Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz, in his Passover sermon at the Central Synagogue yesterday said that “the terrible plight of our German brethren is a normal challenge to the Jews of Great Britain.”
Chief Rabbi Hertz appealed for solidarity to aid the victims of tyranny who have been subjected to degradation and persecution, and whose “sole crime is the fact that they possess Jewish blood.”
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