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VOL. 52 NO. 5
JANUARY 31, 1974 - SHEVAT 8
Devoted to American
andJewijh Ideals /
Athens (WNS) — A criminal court has sentenced two
young Palestinians to death for the machinegun and
grenade massacre at Athens Airport last August.
Shafik Arid and Talal Khantouran, both 22, admitted in'
court they staged the attack in which five people were
killed and 55 wounded, but claimed it was a "political
act" aimed at "liberating" Palestine and preventing
Jewish immigrants from going to Israel.
New York (WNS) — A document smuggled out of the
Soviet Union charges that the Soviet government
railroaded Aleksandr Feldman in sentencing hint to
3% years of hard labor. The document, smuggled out
by City Council President Paul O'Dwyer and
Manhattan Bourough President Percy Sutton, is the
court brief of I.S. Ezhov, lawyer for the 26-year-old,
Jewish engineer from Kiev. In the brief made public by
-the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry,
Ezhov said he "considered the verdict as incorrect"
and declared "Feldman's explanations are not
groundless, while the testimony of his opponents
arouse doubt concerning th'eir truthfulness.'/Malcolm
Hoenlein, Conference executive president, declared
that harassment of Jews seeking to emigrate from the
USSR is intensifying.
Paris (WNS) — Le Monde's correspondent Eric
Rouleau has bee barred by Saudi Arabia from ac¬
companying French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert to
the Arab country because of his Jewish origin despite
his reputed pro-Arab stand and the intervention of the
Quai d'Or$ay, Rouleau had given "Jewish" as his
religion on his application foran entry visa. Four other
Jewish journalists, accompanying Jobert were' granted
visas when they either claimed to be Christians or said
in their applications they were "non-practicing."
ADL Director Will Speak At
Interreligious Seminar
Kissinger Says That U.S. Not 'Guarantor' Of
Israeli-Egyptian Disengagement Agreement
Washington (WNS) - The
United States is not a
"guarantor" of the Israeli-
Egyptian disengagement
agreement, Secretary of
State Henry A. Kissinger
told a news conference. But
he added that if there is a
new outbreak of war and one
side or the other asks the
U.S. for diplomatic help "we
will follow the course" from
where the violations oc¬
curred. Kissinger called the
letters by President Nixon
on the limitation of forces
which-were signed by both
Israeli Premier Golda Meir
and Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat "a device" by
which the U.S. conveyed
what the limitations should
be and/iot a guarantee. He
said the U.S. had agreed not
to publish the letters at the
request* of both sides but
their details were given to
Congressional leaders. On
his own role, Kissinger said
he acted because both sides
found it easier to com¬
municate through an in¬
termediary. Kissinger said
the Soviet Union approved of
his role and that the Soviet
government gave "strong
support".to the agreement.
He acknowledged that the
Soviet fleet in the Indian
Ocean would benefit from
the reopening of the Suez
Canal but said the reac¬
tivated waterway would be a
step toward peace. "We
have every reason to
believe," Kissinger noted
that the success of
the Israeli - Egyptian
disengagement negotiations
would lead to an end to the
oil embargo. Kissinger said
that   U.S.   relations   had
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Rabbi Warns That Jewish Survival In
The U.S. Depends On Rising Birth Rate
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
newly elected president of
the New York Board of
Rabbis warned on Jan. 23
that Jewish survival in this
country depended on a rising
Rabbi Solomon ,S. Ber¬
nards, Director of the
Department of In¬
terreligious cooperation of
the Anti-Defamation League
of B'nai B'rith, will bejthe
featured   speaker   at ' a
Rabbi Solomon S. Bernards
seminar for members of the
clergy, on Tuesday
February 5th, from 11:30
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The
seminar, sponsored by the
Columbus Board of Rabbis
in cooperation with the Anti-'
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith, will deal with Israel
and the Middle East, and
will include the participation
of members of the Catholic,
Protestant and Jewish
clergy. Rabbi Nathan
Zelizer, Rabbi of Tifereth
Israel Congregation, and
vice-president of the
Columbus Board of Rabbis,
is chairman of the seminar
planning committee.
Rabbi Bernards has
served as Director of the
Department       of       In-
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Jewish birth-rate and a
concerted battle against
secularism, intermarriage
and assimilation. Rabbi Sol
Roth, spiritual leader of the
Atlantic Beach Jewish
Center, Atlantic Beach, L.I.
made those points in his
presidential acceptance
address at the Board's 93rd
-'annual'm«tingJhere.' Rabbi
Roth , succeeded Rabbi
William Berkowitz as
president of the NYBR, an
organization of about 1000
Conservative, Orthodox and
Reform rabbis. At the same
time, Rabbi Harold Gordon,
executive vice-president of
the NYBR, confirmed to the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that 25 Reform rabbis have
left the Board because they
did not go along with its
ruling last June 29 barring
membership to rabbis who
performed milted
marriages'. Rabbi' Gordon
said the mixed marriage
performance ban still holds.
The JTA reported in its
Daily News Bulletin last
Aug. 7 that between  25-30
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"Dybbuk" Opens Saturday
Left to Right: Nate Shafran, 1974 National Campaign
Cabinet member from Cleveland, Sam Rothberg,
General Chairman of the Israel Bond Organization,
and Frank R. Nutis.
Frank Nutis Named To Bonds
National Campaign Cabinet
Frank R. Nutis, prominent
,Columbus civic and com¬
munal leader, was inducted
recently as a member of the
National Campaign Cabinet
of the Israel Bond
Organization which has been
the principal source of funds
for the economic develop¬
ment of the State of Israel.
The induction of Mr. Nutis
took place at an ex¬
traordinary meeting at the
Regency Hotel in New York
with Ze'ev Sher, Israel's
Economic Minister, and
Sam Rothberg, General
Chairman of State of Israel
Bonds.
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Teme .Young and Steve
Broidy appear as. the star
crossed lovers in the most
famous of modern Jewish
dramas, "The Dybbuk,"
which is the 2nd major
production of the Gallery
Players 25th > season. This
dark fairy tale with religious
and mystic overtones opens
at The Jewish Center, 1125
College Ave., on Sat. eve.,
Feb. 2 with performances
also on Feb. 3,6,7,9 and 10.
To the Chassidic Jews of
eastern Europe, a dybbuk
was not a legend or a myth;
rather it remained a con¬
stant and portentous
possibility. During that age
of pervasive mysticism,
when rabbis became miracle
workers and the sinister arts
of the Kabbala were fear--
somely invoked, it was never
doubted that a discontented
spirit from the dead could'
cross the barrier between
the "real'' and the "other"
worlds to enter a living
human body. Julian Barnett
plays the role of the miracle
rabbi in the Gallery Players'
production and Stephen Herz
his young assistant.
When Solomon Ansky
brought his play to Moscow
Art Theatre, the great
Russian director,
Stanislavsky, suggested the
addition of a new character,
the mystic messenger, into
the work. Harry Schubert
portrays this role which adds
dimension to the play in the
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Scholars Making Comprehensive Analysis Of Jewish And Christian Communities
New York, (JTA) — The
most comprehensive
analysis ever attempted of
the history, culture, social
and political life, theological
concepts, and inter¬
relationships between the
Jewish and - Christian
communities of the first two
centuries of the present era,
together with a study of the
implications of these fin¬
dings for modern Jewish-
Christian relations, is under
way by an international
group of renowned scholars.
Titled Compendia Rerum
Iudaicarum Ad Novum
Testamentum* (Compendia
on the Jewish Background to
the New Testament), the
work will cover 10 volumes,
the first of which, "The
Jewish People In The First
Century," has just been co-
published in Amsterdam by
Van Gorcum and Company,
and in Philadelphia by the
Fortress Press, The latter
will distribute the books in
the U.S. Announcement of
the project was made by
Prof. M. De Jonge, Dean of
the Theological Faculty of
the University of Leiden, at a
news conference at the
national headquarters of the
American Jewish Com¬
mittee, one of the sponsors of
the scholarly inquiry. Other
participants in the con¬
ference were the Rev. Harry
E. Gaylord, Jr., executive
editor of the Compendia, and
Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum,
AJC's national interreligious
affairs director. Among
other sponsors of the project,
who have provided funds for
research and publication,
are the Vatican Secretariat
for the Promotion of
Christian Unity, the World
Council of Churches, the
Dutch Reformed Church, the
Netherlands    Organization
for the Advancement of Pure
Research, the Prince Ber-
nhard Fund, and, the
Evangelical Churclv»f-thT
Rhineland.
Describing the Compendia
project, Prof. De Jonge, who
serves as general editor,
together with Prof. S. Safrai
of Hebrew University, said
that it would "carry out a
seldom-explored com¬
parative study of Jewish and
early Christian thinking,
with a view to discovering
where or how basic concepts
in Judaism and Christianity
are related and where they
differ." He added: "This is
the first time to our
knowledge that New
Testament scholars and
specialists in rabbinic
scholarship have engaged in~
such close, systematic
collaboration. It is
reasonable to assume that
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