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Philadelphia.—On
the 27th of January another ball was given in aid of the newly established
German Hebrew Ladies’ Benevolent Society. We understand that the net
proceeds were about three hundred dollars.
New
Orleans.—On the 15th of January, the day appointed by the Governor
of Louisiana as one of general thanksgiving, the Israelites assembled in
the German Synagogue. The day and opportunity were worthily embraced to
form an auxiliary to our Publication Society; and, if the same zeal would
but characterize other congregations, we should soon be able to found an
institution which would call out Jewish talent, and regard it by
pecuniary support and an approving public. Let the subject be agitated
where as yet it has received but indifferent countenance.
The
officers of the Auxiliary Society of New Orleans consist of J. L. Levy,
President; Edward Leon, Vice President; A. Emanuel, Treasurer; and G. S.
Goodman, Cor. and Rec. Secretary.
American
Jewish Publication Society.—We beg to acknowledge the following
receipts of money: From the Auxiliary Society in New Orleans, one hundred
dollars; from the Auxiliary Society in Richmond, Va., sixty-three dollars;
from Columbia, S. C., fourteen dollars; Mrs. R. Benjamin, of Beaufort, S.
C., ten dollars, (donation); and from Miss P. Moïse, Superintendent of
the Sunday School, K. K. B. E. Charleston, five dollars; besides several
single subscriptions from New York, Yonkers, and Baltimore.
London.—We
are requested to state that in addition to the public schools in London,
mentioned in several late numbers by our correspondent. S. S., there is
the Talmud Torah School, which contains twenty-one boys, who study the
Bible, Hebrew, German, Rashi, the Mishnah, and Shulchan Aruch; they are
apprenticed out at the age of fourteen; and many who had been educated
there have held respectable situations.
New
York.—We learn that the Elm Street congregation of New York have
presented to one of their trustees, Mr. Leon M. Ritterband, a silver
pitcher, as a testimonial of their high esteem in which they hold the
services rendered the congregation by Mr. R.
Strange
Contest.—There died lately of Berlin an Austrian baroness: being
considered a Christian, an undertaker of that confession came to take the
measure of the coffin, when the Jewish officer, whose province it is to
superintend Jewish burials, made his unexpected appearance, and claimed
the corpse as that of a Jewess. A letter having been found, in which the
deceased declared that she had never renounced the religion of her
forefathers, and that she wished to be buried according to the Jewish
rites; the contest ended in favour of the Israelite.—V. of J.
Justice
To Jewish Converts.—We read some time ago, in the Morning
Chronicle, the following characteristic judicial decision in the affair of
a Jewish convert. A Jew of Tripoli, who had become Mahometan, returned
again to the religion of his fathers. The Bey applied to Constantinople as
to punishment to be inflicted on the renegade. He was ordered to send the
prisoner to Constantinople. Here, according to the practice of the
Mahometans in similar cases, it was expected that death would be the
punishment inflicted upon him. But the assembled Ulemas decided otherwise.
The Jew was released, and even permitted publicly to profess his religion.
What a progress of tolerance among the bigoted Mahometans.—Ib.
Constantinople.—A
fire, which broke out at Constantinople on the 25th of last October, has
consumed the greater part of the Jewish quarter, and destroyed several
Synagogues. Distress, starvation, and misery of all kinds prevail among
the unfortunate Jewish population.—Ib.
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