Rabbi Protests Mogen David at Meeting of B’nai B’rith

That the blue and white flag with the Star of David, that hung beside the Stars and Stripes at a meeting of the Seattle lodge of the B’nai B’rith, was out of place at a B’nai B’rith meeting, was the contention of Rabbi Samuel Kosch, first Grand Vice-president of Grand Lodge District No. 4. The flag, he claimed, was the emblem of political Zionism, and while he said he agreed with the concepts of the Jewish Agency, he did not favor Palestine as a Jewish State and felt that many B’nai B’rith members agreed with him that the blue and white flag stands for a dual allegiance. Having it there before him at the meeting, Rabbi Koch thought, was entirely at variance with the subject of his talk “The Jew and Patriotism.”