The Times of Monday gives a most curious and interesting
account of a scheme for founding a sort cf Jewish Toynbee Hall in the East-End,—the chief aim of which shall be to teach English to, and otherwise "acclimatise," the Jewish immigrants into London. There will be a considerable body of regular ministers, and the assistance of lay-workers will also be invoked. "Among the other features of the scheme are the removal of the Beth Hamedrash, the Hebrew library now attached to the great synagogue, to the proposed new synagogue ; the provision of a suitable court-house for the Beth Din, the Jewish Court of Justice, with waiting rooms for suitors and witnesses, and offices ; and the provision of class-rooms and a large hall for communal and other purposes." Large subscriptions have been promised by the leading Jews of London, and there eeems every prospect of success being attained. We have nothing but good wishes for the attempt, believing as we do that in most cases the alien Jew is quite capable of being made into a good citizen. Till, however, he has learnt our language and our ways, he must be a source of difficulty to the community. We are willing to assimilate the foreign Jews, but not to see a town of foreign Hebrews grow up as it has grown up in Chicago.
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