Rabbi Guest Preacher at Famous English Church

For the first time in history, the famous Carr’s Lane Church has invited Dr. A. Cohen, the Chief Rabbi of Birmingham, to preach from the pulpit on Sunday. This is the first time that this well-known church, made famous by such preachers as Dr. Jowett, Dr. Dale and other distinguished ministers, has listened to an address from a Jewish rabbi.

It was announced at the church that the invitation to Dr. Cohen was a gesture of friendship to the Jewish community in Birmingham, and an expression of sympathy for the persecutions now being undergone by the Jews of Germany.

######delineating superficial racial aspects. The deeper, spiritual differences must be stressed, at least in their fundamentals and adapted to the mind of the growing child’s intelligence. This is important for the understanding of the idiosyncrasies of the German people and more especially for the comprehension of those peoples with whom we have immediate contact. In principle neither hatred nor slander should be indulged in against a foreign people. However, it is most important to emphasize the evil results for our own Germanic future that are inherent in any excessive assimilation of alien races and that any miscegenation with Jewish or colored blood must be absolutely and unreservedly avoided.”

The door is opened to anti-Semitic propaganda in the schools by these instructions to supplement the teaching of anthropological differences with the indoctrination of the “deeper, spiritual differences”, the Juedsiche Rundschau editorializes, adding, “Think of the feelings of the Jewish child in the class” !

Frick’s program calls for teaching which will exalt the deeds and characteristics of the Nordics. At the same time it disregards the fact that racial relationship is no guarantee for unified or friendly political activity as the alignment of the Germans with the Turks against Anglo-Saxon England proved. Political boundaries are frequently more potent in deciding loyalties than race,