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Vol XXXIX
The Southern Israelite
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1964
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Khrushchev Attacks Israel’s
Water Plan in Egypt Speech
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LONDON (JTA)—Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev Monday sharply
attacked Israel’s plan to bring
waters of the Jordan River to the
Negev for irrigation purposes. He
gave his support of the Arab stand
in the dispute, it was reported here
from Cairo.
Addressing the Egyptian National
Assembly during his current visit
to that country, Premier Khrush
chev said that the Soviet Union sup
ports the “just causes” of the Arab
nations which regard the Israeli
plan as a hostile act. “The Israeli
project transgresses upon the rights
of the Arabs to use these waters,”
Khrushchev declared, adding that
Israel planned to “rob the Arab
world of Ms own water.’’
The Assembly’s 360 delegates
jumped to their feet cheering as
Khrushchev berated the Israeli proj
ect and they gave him another ova
tion when he promised to continue
Soviet arms shipments to Arab na
tions “for the protection of gains
wrecked by free men from imper-
ialism — but not for aggression
against anybody.’’
WASHINGTON (JTA)—State De
partment officials declined to com
ment on Soviet Premier Khrush
chev’s statements in Cairo against
Israel’s irrigation project. Officials
pointed out that comments, if any,
would have to wait until the De
partment receives the full text of
Khrushchev’s statement and has a
chance to analyze it.
Meanwhile, it became known here
that the United States expects the
United Nations to continue its emer
gency force in Gaza throughout
1966. This was told by Assistant
Secretary of State Harland Cleve
land to the House Foreign Affairs
Committee which released his test
imony Monday.
The Assistant Secretary of State
described the UN Eknergency Force
as being "credited with preventing
any serious incidents in the area in
recent years, and with insuring the
freedom of shipping in the area
near the head of the Gulf of Akaba "
UNEF, Mr. Cleveland said, “has
been so effective in preserving the
armistice that it has become ver-
tually indispensable until it can be
demonstrated that attitudes and re
lations between the people on both
sides of the line have improved to
the degree that buffer is no longer
needed to prevent armed conflict.”
Israel Starts 1
Project of Jordan River Plan
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Govern
ment announced this week that
water has been flowing from Lake
Tiberias to the Negev through the
National Water Carrier pipe net
work for several days in the first
test of the huge Jordan-to-Negev ir
rigation system.
The statement said that testing
of the system of pumps, canals,
siphons and conduit would continue
for several weeks and that if no
major repairs,’ alterations or addi
tions were needed, full operations
would start in the summer. The first
flow fed into an open canal to test
the canal bed along the I>ake hill
sides.
The Mekorot Company, which is
in charge of operating the project,
said it was testing pressures of
pumps and pipes and canals along
the 70-mile carrier from the lake
to the central distribution station
near Petah Tikvah The initial test
ing demonstrated orderly functioning
of the huge pumps and pipes to that
point, the company said.
Israel has assured the United
Revised Ecumenical Council
Draft on Jews Outlined by Bea
ROME (JTA)—Augustin Cardinal
Bea, president of the Vatican Sec
retariat for the Promotion of Chris
tian Unity, outlined this week the
revised text of the Ecumenical Coun
cil <hraft decree on Catholic ^Jewish
relations The draft wil be placed
before the Council’s third session,
starting in Septmeber. Cardinal Bea
is the architect of the proposal.
The Cardinal’* Malaneat, stressing
that the late Pope John XXIII had
personally endorsed the Cardinal’s
key views on the subject, appeared
hi the on-rent issue at CivKa Cath
olics, the influential Jesuit periodi
cal.
The Cardinal declared It was “not
Joat” to call the Jewish people “a
deicide people and therefore cursed
by God’’ and that even In Christ’s
time, “the whole people’’ did not co
operate in the condemnation. He
added “the less so is it permitted
today to consider those of the Jew
ish faith responsible.’’
On this bests, he added, the (k-aft
“deduces the warning to avoid all
that may cause contempt or pro
voke hatred against” Jews “in re
ligious teaching, in catechism and,
in particular, in explaining Christ s
life and passion and the doctrine
of His redeeming death and in con
tact with Jews.”
He said the second part of the
draft lists “all the good” which the
Catholic church received throu^i the
Jewish people “and everything that
is common to both religions is men
boned.” The Church acknowledges
with gratitude that “its predeterm
intam" is rooted in the Jewish pa
triarchs and prophets and that the
Church is a continuation of the Jew
ish people.
The draft then "recommends to
Oafhoboa that they work together"
with Jews for “ever-improving mu
tual esteem and knowledge, parti
cularly by theological studies and
fraternal conversations ” The draft
cites the Ecumenical Council as
condemning “every hatred and all
persecutions in the past and in our
own times against the Jews."
The Cardinal added that to eval
uate correctly "the hfcrfi importance’’
of the draft, the Council must con
sider “the long sad history of Chris
tfoc-Jewirfi relations and most of aH
the tragic fruits of anti-Semitism"
in which the Church “assisted with
terror not longer than two decades
ago.”
Asserting that anti-Semitism could
not be traced exclusively to Chris
tian sources the Cardinal said that
Christians could “rightly ask”
whether they had made correct use
of the means “put at their disposal
by their faith” to fight anti-Sem-
itism.
The Cardinal hailed the efforts of
Pope John in ordering elimination
of offending expressions in the
Good Friday liturgy and in ordering
the preparation of the schema for
the Ecianenioal Council. The Card
inal related that when he handed the
late Pontiff his views on the con
tent of the proposed Christian Jew
ish relations draft, he received a
handwritten note from Pope John
that “we read with attention Card
inal Bea’s report. We share perfect
ly his opinion on the serious and
responsibility of our interest.”
The Cardinal differed strongly
with those who “attribute minor im
portance” to the draft. The fact was,
he said, “it is and always remains
a solemn document of the Council.”
He also referred to the inaction of
the second Council session on the
draft and he reiterated earlier state
ments from Vatican sources that
this was due solely to lack of time
and that the delay gave the Coun
cil Fathers time “for quiet reflec
tion and study." He added that the
draft was "an illustration of that
spirit that today powerfully breathes
in the Church and in the world.”
British Chief Rabbi Explains
Stand on Synagogue Rift
LONDON (JTA)—Chief Rabbi Is
rael Brodie piMMiely skated for the
first time this week—at a specially
assembled convocation of 134 rabbis
of the United Synagogue and other
synagogues—his stand in the debate
over his refusal to re-appoint a con
troversial rabbi to one of London's
leading synagogues The attending
rabbis included many from provin
cial centers.
Chief Rabbi Brodie’s refusal to
reappoint Dr. Ixxss Jacobs to the
pulpit of the New West End Syn
agogue, a constituent of the United
Synagogue, has touched off a storm
of controversy among British Jew
ry. The United Synagogue ousted
the officers of the synagogue and
appointed a caretaker administra
tion when the officers refied the
Chief Rabbi in insisting that Dr.
Jacobs occupy the pulpit
Rabbi Brodie told the raft us that
Dr. Jacobs “traveled far from the
accepted norms of Judaism.” Dr.
Jacobs’ writings and utterances, he
added, “make M abundantly dear
that his views cannot be accepted
as in addoranoe with (he position of
Orthodox Judaism Dr. Jacobs went
so far as to say that in modern
times, the Jew no longer asks why
did God teO us to keep certain
commandments but did God tell us
to keep certain commandments,”
the Chief Rabbi asserted.
Rabbi Brodie said that he was
“saddened by the thought that a
group of individuals are contemplat
ing a new synagogue outside the
framewom of the United Syna
gogue,” a reference to announced
plans of Dr. Jacobs' supporters to
set up a new synagogue with Dr
Jacobs as minister The Chief Rabbi
added he hoped that "no action will
be taken that may tend to create
a schism in our old and all-cm
bracing religious community ”
Honorary Mayor
CHICAGO (JTA)—Judith Axelrod,
second vice-president of the B’nai
B'rith Girls was named Honorary
Mayor of Chicago for one day this
week. She was one of two B’nai
B’rith Youth Organization members
to serve Chicago as a temporary
official for the day The other was
Herbert Bilsky president-elect of the
Chicago BBYO region who was
named honorary director of the Com
mission on Human Rotations.
Sbtteen-year-ald Judith observed a
Chicago OMy Council session as hon
orary mayor and then toured the Are
department and police academy.
States that the withdrawals will not
exceed Israel’s share under the Jor
dan waters regional plan developed
by the late Eric Johnston as a spec
ial emissary of then Prescient Eisen
hower. Israel has carried out its
part of the plan independently be
cause of Arab refusal to cooperate.
Jordan has been drawing water
from the system downstream
through the Yarmuk tributary and
Syria and Lebanon have been draw
ing water from the Jordan river
upstream.
It was reported that between 30
billion and 40 billion gallons would
be drawn from Lake Tiberias an
nually at first and tint diversion
would be increased to 75 Dtllkn gal
Ions a year by the end of the decade.
Initially the area inter cultivation
win not be extended because about
two-thirds of the accruing water will
be used to recharge or replace the
weDs on the MedMerranean coast
where sea water has infiltrated the
water sources. The rest of the water
initially will go to coasting settle
ments where water is in abort sup
ply.
Justice Warren Defends Ban
On Public School Prayers
WASHINGTON (JTA)-Chief Jus
tice Earl Warren defended this week
the Supreme Court ban on prayers
in public schools as the Horae Ju
diciary Committee continued its
hearings on proposed constitutional
amendments to void that decision.
Speaking at a dedication in the
Episcopal Cathedral here, the Chief
Justice did not mention the ruling
specifically but noted that the con
stitutional separation of church and
state was meant to protect not only
tht state but also religion. Under the
federal constitution, be said, inter
action of religion and state “is made
informal and free and non-existent,
as some claim." He added that the
interaction was “as fruitful as
Americans have the wfll and the
strength to make it.”
The Anti-Defamation League of
B’nai B’rith, entered a sharp dis
sent, before the House Judiciary
Committee, to the proposed con
stitutional amendments Seymour
Graberd, chairman of the ADL spec
ial Committee on Church-State Re
lations said that government formal
ization of religious practices would
“downgrade the essentially volun
tary nature of prayer” and would
create a “watered-down aecutaristic
kind of religion which would com
pete with and cheapen” true religi
ous practices.
The New York Board of Rabbis
opposed the amencknent proposals
in a telegram to Rep. Emanuel Oeh
ler, New York Democrat and chair
man of the Judiciary Committee.
The rabbis said that religious ob
servances should be practiced in the
home, church and synagogue and
not in schools where they could be
and had been a divisive factor.
The Workmen’s Circle, a fraternal
order informed the committee that
it specifically opposed the proposed
amencknent by Rep. Frank Becker,
New York Republican. The group
said the Becker draft would force a
religious type of segregation in pub
lic schools and was "especially re
pulsive.”
Dr. Frederick Schlotx, president of
the Lutheran church, testified
against such proposals John Quincy
Adams of Montclair, N. J., a leader
in many national Catholic lay or
ganizations and a member of Car
dinal Spellman’s Coordinating Com
mi.tee of Catholic Lay Organisations
in the New York Archdiocese warn
ed the Committee that the Becker
Amendment would be “bad for re
ligion.”
Bishop Brooke Mosley and Bishop
William CrtftfMon, both of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church, also as
sailed the Becker draft. Bishop Mos
ley called the Becker proposal for a
"non-denominatlonal prayer” a gim
mick. Bishop OeigMon said that the
Sipreme Court ban, “far from befog
hostile to religion,” had “encourage
the teaching In public schools of the
proper place of religion in our cul
ture and hhtety.”
The idea of a compromise. In the
form of a Congressional declaration,
rather than a constitutional amend
ment, was reportedly being discuss
ed behind the scenes in the Judici
ary committee. The idea had reach
ed the state where it was offered
for discussion by Rep. CeOer who
noted he had not as yet derided
to endorse the compromise idea.
Congress woidd peas a resolution—
without force of law declaring the
sense of Congress that voluntary
non-denominational prayers were
not contrary to the Constitution.
Such a resolution would, it affect
tell the Scpreme Court that Con
gress hoped the court would iphold
a New York Federal Conti rating
that the Stpnau Court deotasu did
not tabid ms**
when the prayers were
vised by the school
Nashville Ministry
Marches Against
Race Discrimination
NASHVILLE, (JTA) Rabbis.
Catholic priests and Ptotastant
ministers joined bsra in a march
through the central streets of the
city to show this
munity that reMgkx
opposed to racial
The clergymen
over a tfareemile route led
Rabbi Randall Falk, of The Thra-
pie, and the Rev. Satn Dodson,
pastor of Calvary Methodist Church.
After the march, the drtgymeu
held a prayer me sting on lbs steps
of the Court House. Later, thy
were nddrnssed tty Mayor Dover ty
Briley. According to the Bar. Dod
son. 190 religious leaden of all
faiths In this cemutedty “stood ap
to be counted” agafort rectal dis
crimination.
M. D. Wins Nominal
From
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LONDON (JTA)— A High Court
jury awarded this weak to Dr.
Wladislaw Dering uondsal train
of one-half penny, the lowest earn
that can be given, to Ms Hbei suit
against author Lo« tMi and the
British publishers of his ravel.
“Exodus."
The Ptftabboni docfortaqtote at
the Arachwit* death can* had sued
over a passage in the bosk which
accused him of peitaniug experi
ments without aMthtta Sg Ausch
witz inmates. Th* judge entered Dr.
Dering to pay the ttanrataiMa’ oasts
and refined Mm ptantariou to ap
peal Costa ere astfarotniit at
ooo potato ($70,000). Thirty Aueob-
wtts surriven, town the Uritad
States, France, Israel, Poland rad
Austria, taottted daring the 10<My
trial in tat *