The special service held at the Great Synagogue in Aldgate
last Sunday for Jews serving in the Regular and Auxiliary forces was attended by about two hundred and fifty men, including some twenty officers and several members of the C.I.V., and attracted an immense congregation. In the coarse of his sermon the Rev. F. L. Cohen mentioned that more than eight hundred Jews had taken part in the campaign in South Africa, and that, in proportion to their number in the Empire, they had actually borne more than their share in their contribution to the fighting forces. These striking figures deserve the widest possible currency, as they effec- tively and convincingly dispel the view, still entertained is some quarters, that the Jewish community always constitutes an intperium in imperio, that it is incapable of true loyalty to the land of its adoption, and that it never breeds fighting men.
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