SOUP KITCHENS IN JERUSALEM.
A few months ago a rabbi from Jerusalem visited this Colony on a charitable mission. Under date May 3 the Chief Eabbi at Jerusalem writes acknowledging the receipt of various sums from New Zealand and thanking his co-re-ligionists here for their assistance. The following extract shows how much it was needed : —“ To attempt giving even a comparative idea of the great good achieved by the Soup Kitchen Society here is beyond our oratorial capacity, and since words cannot express it, how can words describe it ? Suflice it in stating that from seventy to eighty individuals, destitute and hopeless to the last degree, are daily entertained with good and wholesome food, besides outdoor recipients, and besides that, on Saturday that number is almost doubled and when the present scarcity of food, amounting to almost famine, is taken into consideration, it will easily be preceded in how far our sources are exhausted, and comparatively it will also demonstrate that continuing to entertain so helpless a number of individuals is actually giving them every day new life."
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2291, 21 July 1880, Page 3
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178SOUP KITCHENS IN JERUSALEM. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2291, 21 July 1880, Page 3
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