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Italian Judge Acquitted
Of Anti-Semitism
Jews Disturbed
ROMK, (JTA) - The Counc il
of the Union of Italian Jewish
Communities instructed its presi
dent this week to seek a meet
ing with thC Italian Justice Min
ister concerning an unprece
dented criminal court ruling
which acquitted an Italian mag
istrate of charges of militant
anti-Semitism.
The case involved Giovanni
Durando, a Turin Magistrate,
who is editor of the “Voice of
Justice.” The periodical, in its
May 6, 1961, issue published an
article fiercely attacking the
trial in Jerusalem of Adolf
Eiehmann declaring that “Cath
olics cannot and must not forget
that Jews are God-killers” and
that as such ‘‘up to our days,”
Jews “should be deprived , of the
possibility of being judges of
anybody not belonging to their
progeny.” The \rticle also de
clared that “having crucified
Christ,” Jews were “totally de-
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prived of any sense of morality.”
Judge Durando’ was promptly
denounced to Italian judicial au
thorities by several Italian Jews
for “vilification of the Jewish
'religion and defamation of Jew
ish citizens.” Before a jammed
Genoa courtroom Ugo Levi,
president of the Turin Jewish
corrlmunity, and more than 50
other Italian Jews, appeared
with their attorney as suing
parties against the magistrate.
Judge Durando appeared with
out a lawyer. He contended that
the subject of the charge against
him should be considered “an
ideological matter.” He said that
while he had not written the
article, he assumed full responsi
bility for it, since he had read it
and approved it before publica
tion He said the article had
been written by “a deeply reli
gious person,” whose name he
would not disclose.
The attorneys for the com
plainants declared that the de
fendant’s arguments were similar
to those used by Hitler in 1931
and rejected the contention that
the article had been written to
emphasize some religious prin
ciples. They declared that they
contested the magistrate’s “right
to state that his faith is better
than that of others and that
therefore those professing a dif
ferent religion are to be con
sidered immoral.”
to Nazi Concentration Camps.
The public prosecutor declared
in his summation that Judge
Durando had trespassed the
limits of honest criticism and
also had constructed his thesis
on false religious principles. He
asked an 11-month jail term and
a penalty of 50,000 ($80) for the
defendant.
After two hours deliberation,
the court acquitted the defend
ant of the charge of vilification
of the Jewish religion “because
the fact does not constitute an
offense” and of the defamation
of Jewish citizens “because of
lack of evidence.” The defendant
said he would appeal to a higher
court because he felt he de
served an unconditional acquit
tal. rather than one based on
lack of evidence. The next day
the public prosecutor also filed
an appeal against the acquittal
with a higher .court.
Jewish leaders said the gravity
of the verdict was unquestion
able. Aside from the calumnies
of Jews and Judaism, they point
ed out, the acquittal verdict
questioned the right of Jews to
judge non-Jews and, by infer
ence. could mean that Italian
Jews did not have the right to
become judges in Italian courts.
It was noted that Dr. Serge
I’iperno, the president of the
Union of Italian Jewish Com
munities, is a magistrate.
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The lawyers also reminded the
court that Pope John XXIII had
personally ordered the deletion
of the phase “perfidious Jews”
from the Good Friday liturgy.
They asked fpr damages of 500,-
000 lire ($800) to be turned over
to the Association of Deportees
The Union of Italian Jewish
Communities Council meeting
issued a communique after the
extraordinary session ^hich de
plored the inadequate legislation
"against genocide, incitement of
hatred toward citizens” and re
called that Italy's approval of
Rabbi Prinz Again Defends
Decision of Temple to Stay
NEWARK, (JTA)—Rabbi Jo
achim Prinz. spiritual leader of
Temple B'nai Abraham, has
again defended his congrega
tion’s decision to stay in New
ark rather than move to a new
location in the suburb as many
congregations have done in,re
cent years throughout the Unitdd
States.
The occasion was the 108th
annual meeting of the temple
at which President Norman
Feldman reported that all tem
ple facilities had been renovated
and refurbished and that a park
ing lot had been established for
temple members.
Rabbi Prinz said the decision
not to move to a suburb was
based on a number of considera
tions. including its location in a
part of Newark “w'hieh is easily
accessible, both to the members
who live in the city as well as
those who live in the suburban
area.”
Another Teason is that to du
plicate the facilities of the tem
ple, “one of the most magnifi
cent and elaborate synagogue
buildings in the country,” yvould
force the congregation to raise
millions of dollars, he added.
"Living in a community which
has been for many years dere
lict in its duty toward the United
Jewish Appeal and other causes
and which has not yet succeed
ed in raising a sufficient amount
of money for the Home for the
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gogue while this building here
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Raltimore Day School
Students Run Off
With Scholarships
The Talmudical Academy of
Baltimore, one of the largest
Day Schools in the United States
has announced that 8 of their 11
high School students have re
ceived Maryland State scholar
ships worth $2,000.00 each. The
special examinations were given
by the Maryland State Depart
ment of Education in all high
schools to attract qualified • stu
dents to the teaching profession.
The Academy has also an
nounced that in the recent Na
tional Education Test given
throughout the country to 149.-
000 students, 12 students of the
TalmucAFil Academy won certi
ficates for scoring in the top
5 percent of the country 60 per
cent of the graduating class won
national and state scholarships,
while the average for the rest
of the state of Maryland was 8
percent.
Ten students from the Atlanta
area are currently studying at
the Talmudjcal Academy of
Baltimore.
Eorm Neo-Nazi
Party in Dortmund;
Bonn, (JTA) A new’ neo-
Nazi party was founded, at a
convention in Dortmund, this
week The new group, calling it
self the German Freedom Party,
was organize d by leading mem
bers of the German Reichspartci.
Two members of that party
were convicted nearly two years
ago of having begun the swas
tika-smearing plague that swept
this country and other parts of
the world, after they had paint-
id the Nazi symbol on the walls
of the Cologne synagogue on
Christmas Eve, 1959.
the United Nations 1948 draft
against genocide was still await
ing Parliamentary action.
In instructing Dr. Piperno to
seek a meeting with the Justice
Ministry, the Council also in
structed him to firmly request
the formulation and implemen
tation of legislation adequate to
deal with such situations as the
Durando case.
The Union’s official weekly,
Israel, declared editorially that
the verdict constituted “the most
evident and gravest of offenses
against our honor and our dig
nity. We could not imagine a
greater one than that ‘we are
totally deprived of morality’."
The weekly also stressed “the
author of the article is not in
tune with the spirit which is
animating the Catholic Church
of our day, under the guidance
of Pope John XXIII.” It asked
“what guarantees of impartial
and democratic judgment can a
magistrate supply, when his
mind is still conditioned by a
medieval relgious fanaticism?”
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