""Accept the true from whatever source it come," is sound rabbinic doctrine — even if it be from the pages of a devout Christian expositor or of an iconoclastic Biblical scholar, Jewish or non-Jewish."
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Joseph H. Hertz
1913 – 1946
Joseph Herman Hertz CH (25 September 1872 – 14 January 1946) was the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, 1913–1946.
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