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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 174, 20 April 1937, Page 8

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Rabbi Suggests Admission to Australia Dominion Special Service. Auckland, April 19. The admission into Australia of specially selected Jews who have been compelled to leave Germany was recommended by the Rev. Israel Brodie, who recently retired from the position of Rabbi of the Melbourne Hebrew congregation, when he arrived at Auckland by the Aorangi from Sydney on his way to attend the Zionist Congress in Switzerland. Rabbi Brodie has given such distinguished services to Australian Jewry that its members are now establishing a plantation of trees in his name in Palestine. He suggested that selected German Jews could become useful citizens of Australia,' for many of those who had been banished under Herr Hitler’s rule were experts in professions and trades of a very wide range.

Regarded as one of the most distinguished Rabbis and Jewish scholars in the British Empire, Mr. Brodie has been president of the Jewish Ecclesiastical Court of Victoria and of the Australian Zionist Federation. During the war he served as chaplain with the British forces in