While the Bucharest daily “Adverul” reports that anti-Semitic attacks are again reported, this time from Bielce, the Roumanian Patriarch M. Miron and a member of the Regency, today received Eli Bercovici, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities, and promised measures to prevent the clergy from participating in anti-Semitic agitation at which M. Bercovici had complained.
Agreeing that the activities of the priests in inciting worshippers from the pulpit were reprehensible the Patriarch authorized M. Bercovici to go to the Ministry of Cults and in the name of the Patriarch ask for the issuance of an order preventing the clergy from engaging in anti-Semitism. M. Bercovici also complained about Professor Cuza’s repeated insults in Parliament where he recently denounced Judaism as a “criminal religion”.
The Patriarch expressed the hope that the government would prevent a recurrence of Professor Cuza’s remarks. The Adverul says that the excesses in Bielce are led by the former Russian police agent, M. Novitzky and Professor Stat who are terrorizing the Jews while the police are reported to be inactive.
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