THE SYNAGOGUE

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1933, Page 6

THE SYNAGOGUE

THE NAZIS AND THE JEWS. -AN INTERCESSION SERVICE. CHRISTCHURCH, April 2G. A -combined ■ Anzac and intercession service was held in the Synagoguv yesterday morning. Rev. N. Salas was the preacher.

iThey were met again, ; the preacher said, to pray for the repose of the men and women who gave the in lives for their various kings and countries; and algo to pray for the repose of their martyrs who had fallen'recently under the Nazi regime in Germany. He used the ..- term Nazi regime because it was not all Germany but. only a section that lwd broken out. They knew that when a wild beast escaped there was only, one thing to do, and that was to run for safety until) the beast ran to its G wn destruction or was muzzled. Under Nazi rule anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism had run riot, and the

' Jewish people were waiting till things became normal again. He was sorry to say that the germ of anti-Semitism had not remained in Germany. There had been an instance of it in Quebec? In Manchester only recently the owners had found posted on Jewish shops: “Down -with the Jews,” and “Perish the Jews.” The germ of anti-Semit-ism had travelled far, as far as New' Zealand, but, thank God, not. Christchurch;. but in Auckland recently a man had been spreading antiSemitic propaganda. Anti-Semitism, the preacher continued, started in the time of Abraham. ' The patriarch had not been long

in Egypt before Pharaoh ordered his expulsion. Isaac was similarly treated, and Mr Salas spoke briefly of other instances of anti-Semitism. In Germany to-day, he aid, they did not mind Judaism, but the Jews were not wanted. The Jews were accused of , taking everything from them and of having monopolised everything. Why had Germany been defeated in the last war? Because her cause was ' not just, and because of national selfishness. Now Germany sought to avenge herself on the poor, innocent Jews, forgetting that -'proportionately the Jews .had ; sent many more sodiers to fight in the different countries; even in. the German army there had been many Jewish soldiers. All that was ( rem<emb&¥ed by Germany was. Jthat Great Britain and her allies had conquered. Germany, ; and did so, according -to- German ideas, with the help of Jewish financiers. A 'Jew could not

lifelong to any political club in Germany, and now, as they would have seen from the newspapers, they were doing away with the old style of Freemasonry—a Jew could not enter the new, Freemasonry because it was now simply a Nazi association. All- the atrocities against the Jews were due to the Jew being misunderstood'. Even in the Oxford dictionary it r would be, noted that the word Jew itselfjAyas;, given' a contemptible meaning. ’- If was forgotten what the Jews had. dorre 'for the, world. The Jew had brought velhgion to the world, a religion that recognised, the. one and only Creator of the world. But for the Jew, it is probable that Mohammedanism might have been the dominant religion. The Jews had been hated all -the. "time—persecuted,, murdered, massacred. Yet they, were still here. And why ? Because God wanted them to continue, and to become once more a great ' nation, not politically "but spiritually.