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Shortly before Mr. J. H. Levy was about to start for the Continent, in September, 1896, in order to attend the Berne Conference of the British, Continental, and General Federation for the Abolition of State-Regulated Prostitution, he was asked to speak at a public meeting to be called to express sympathy with a fellow Israelite, Mr. Henry Levy, who had been imprisoned because he declined to have his child vaccinated. To this invitation Mr. J. H. Levy was obliged to plead that he would be in Switzerland at the time of the meeting; but, in the letter conveying this plea, he added, inter alia: "The people of my own race, it seems to me, are specially bound to detest the inoculation mania and all its works. Anything more opposed to the spirit of the ancient Judaism than the insertion of an animal disease in the human body I find it difficult to conceive."

This letter was read to the meeting, and the above passage was reported in the press. Upon this, Mr. Harris, also an Israelite, and a member of the Whitechapel Guardians, who had prosecuted Mr. Henry Levy, wrote to Dr. Adler, the Chief Rabbi, "asking his opinion on vaccination."

It should be explained, for the benefit of the Gentile world, that Jews have no ecclesiastical chief such as Roman Catholics have in the Pope. Dr. Adler is not only a merely local Chief Rabbi, but his jurisdiction does not extend over all Jewish congregations in England.

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