ROAST PIG FOR THE RABBI.

NZ Truth, Issue 340, 30 December 1911, Page 8

ROAST PIG FOR THE RABBI.

How a Jew Lost His Job. All" "Tru"tn' : ' : readers who . love J#ws. (of which fine people it is understood there ai<e quite a numbev in.. : A,u9traiasia, who, actuated by the' [purest, love for thedr. fellownien,' lead a self-denying virtuous life for -no other, purpose than to enable 7 self-indulgent Australasians to have a good time by generously giving them sundry coins-. the realm m exchange' for old clothes, boots; and : eveii worn-out false teeth) will deeply sympathise .With the trials and tribulations of a prominent French Hebrew, who is .now trying : to get. some redress from his cruel' compatriots m .the law courts. Heartless Londoner. 1 ; only sneer at ; HIS TERRIBLE STOR \ r . but .""Truth" readers are a warmer hearted people, and they will bo so.rry. ; But m, order to prepare yourselves-, for" the moving 1 tale that follows, iirst read extract irom the strict Hebraic law o! Moles :- And the. swine, though he dividetix the hoof, and 'be . 'c.oven-foot-ed',..yet ' he cheweth not the cud ; he is unclean to you. — .-' . t Of their flesh ye shall not eat; and : their .carcase., shall ye not touch ; v they are unclean to you. This law from time immemorial the Chosen Race have observed " as religiously as their rates of interest: The tenderloin of porlc, with apple sauce and sage stuffing, tl.i'e dainty delectable fucking pig, tbe appetising morning rasher, the humble; yet toothsome.- pig's pheek, is not for them. For. a Jew to- even sniff at the dish of frying, bubbling pork-sausages m the fourpenny restaurant window '.- IS A DEADLY SIN; he. may . r 'do" the Gciitile,;. but he mustn't '.do himse-lf well with theflesh of the accursed' ■ pig, whether baked, .boiled^' stuffed or. fried. If he' does , he is irretrievably -damned . If he is. lempted, as he'; is, he must heroically say> ;i -Not any for me, thanks," and pass: the Pork, . ' . . . Judge "then of the weight of woe under whicii Chief Rabbi Victor Krauer, now. alas, no lbnger a Rabbi, labors ...through the baseness of a brother-in-law. . Nine years ago Rabbi Braver was a. happy man, pointing his Roman-nosed congregation the ...way. to heaven (wherever the Hebrew heaven is — probably a I r hice "where there ; are no Gentile Jutiges " to._ take exception to "-00 \ievshent /interest, . and where the thiee golden.^ balls-. ai;e really gold, and r..ot a brummy counterfeit) ; «• man to -wjioni pig: -was but a. naiiie, and wlip.^ probably didn J t : know one side of bacph^pm another, or from a bar' of soap, for that, matter. Well /then, ■ imagine the good Rabbi on© day peacefully • conducting soleuin service m the tabernacle while his happy", congregation, hung-, on his words of wisdom, or else 1 " "SLEPT PEACEFULLY /W " ■.- m. ' -their; pews- dreainiiig -of fires arid in'sui : aiices, ".Qtid' 1 " what . ., ribl.' In this peaceluT,'. .hpiy' »'eehe' there' suddenly .intruded, the; . brtit al; barbarous bro-ther-in-law .of ..the Habbi, who roared in.', a .tone .of thunder : "Arrest., the Rabbi! lie has been eating .pork cutlets m, an hotel m town V" , ....... . ■ Now, .picture the assembled Jews, hi . their horror at the; feaHul accusation, falling furiously '..on .. the d e fenceless Rabb i . They , st r i oped him of. his clothes,, his boots,'... -his everything, and turned him 'naked ..into tho street. Next day. they summarily dismissed him from' his, high .'office.. ■ Since- then this poor Rabbi has been going round, a . .' . "VEPvITABLE "WANDERING JEW, looking for ' a job m vain.- The story had spread through "Jewry, and wherever the poor Rabbi , went he found that", the dreadful '" wojrd "pig" had been whispered .before he got there., apd 'Hebrew noses tnrned away from him m eloquent, silent fashion. • The Rabbi has got tired of this •after ■ nine years, and .he i* uovr.suing his former congregation of Touts, m France, where this." tragedy happened, for damages 'for wrongful - dismissal.' So keenly does the Rabbi feel his disivac? and the jloss of. all the good gilt he should ihave been earning during those lost j years 'that he is assessing his dam-

a£i.-s ?.A. £2n,nr>o. The case is being j licard beioiv? tbe TUIBUKAL. OF THE Sli^NE, at P;iri.«, and is exciting great in-tfM-esi, ( not, 'money irmorcxl.) among the 1-ronch'- arid British .lews. Th'i case- .st:-onr!s pay,t- heard on<l it, is Linpossible to .say at> • present what! th". ix-suil wil.l be, b.m. if tin.; Uabbi j p-cis his twenty thousand quid he j should become' i-econcllcd towards ih.; j imdcun bcus;L \.\\ai was Lhc. cause oi" iii« duwm'nll.. . '. ' ... j But: what a lot. of Cuss oyei-a-bit. I of grub!, , ; ; |