p. 19 | King Edward and His Jewish Soldiers

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 25, 1909

King Edward and His Jewish Soldiers

THE NEW YORK Tribune of March 1 contains an article telling of the kindly interest of King Edward, of England, in his Jewish soldiers. The article says, in part:—

“The war department at Whitehall, in London, has just issued orders that all soldiers of the Jewish persuasion are to be allowed passes, that is to say, leave of absence, for the feasts of the passover, pentecost, new year, and tabernacles, in addition to the day of atonement. As the remission from labor is to begin at sunset on the day previous to each of these five occasions, and as they themselves run into thirteen days, it is obvious that eighteen days in all will be involved in observing these religious holidays. King Edward has also in view an arrangement whereby Hebrew soldiers should have their meals separately cooked, so that they should not be called upon counter to the prescriptions of their religion in the matter of food.”