OVER ISRAEL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 228, 27 September 1938, Page 11

OVER ISRAEL.

"CLOUDS HANG LOW."

NAZI-ISM CONDEMNED.

JBWMH NEW TEAR ADDRESS

Gathered at special service at the Synagogue in celebration of the Jewish New Year, Auckland Jews yesterday heard the Rev. Alexander Astor condemn b i t^u rl C U ' e brutali tv and inhumanity of the Nazi philosophy," which, he said, tilled their hearts witn anxiety in the coming of the New \ear.

Never since the advent of Nazi-ism m Germany has a year been so darkened by clouds that refuse to be lifted and never has the panorama of the coming year promised less prosit of more favourable conditions," h e said "Xo f>"e within whose soul there burns a spark of religion and humanity can contemplate without a feeling of "horror the trend of events in the world to-day. "A Living . Protest." "The clouds still han- low over Israel, and the occasional outbursts of sunshine in land« of freedom and justice only serve to intensify the gloom that exists in other countries. The bitter experiences through which we are passing have shattered our fondest dreams of a world united in love and brotherhold. The Satanic forces of Nazi-ism are threatening the total collapse of civilisation," he said. "Its philosophy of brutal force and bloodshed denies God and all the ethical teachings of religion, it recognises no right but that of the mailed fist, it knows not mercy or compassion, it justifies oppression" and it delights in the sufferinjrs of its victims. Apainst this doctrine of brutality and inhumanity the Jewish people are "a livinjr protest."

Special prayers for the peace of the were offered.