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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
i(ahl>is File Libel Suil
Against ‘Friends of Animals’
Friday, April 1, 1966
Servicemen
Irom page i
tary exigencies, the trainees will
not be permitted to leave Fort
Ord during the Passover festival.
Jewish Army and Air Force
chaplains will conduct Passover
services in Ankara. Turkey; Ev-
reux, Orleans and Verun, France;
Vicenza, Italy; and Frankfurt,
Heidelberg, Ramstein, Kaiser
slautern, Munich and Stuttgart,
Germany. The Sedarim will be
conducted in Officers’ Clubs and
Consolidated Mess Halls. Military
personnel and their families from
outlying areas will be accommo
dated in military hotels and
transient billets to facilitate their
attendance at the Passover serv
ices.
Jewish chaplains will also of
ficiate at Passover services in
Korea, Japan, Okinawa, the Phil
ippines, Hawaii, Panama Canal
Zone and Alaska. Jew'sh GIs
trained by chaplains will lead the
services in Greenland and Spain.
Passover services on base, in
synagogues, Jewish Community
Centers and other community fa
cilities, home hospitality, and, at
many installations, special Pass-
over meals for the entire eight
days of the holidays have been
organized in the United States
and at some 70 overseas points by
323 full and part-time Jewish
chaplains, regional JWB consul
tants, community Armed Services
and Veterans Committees and
Jew : sh Community Centers.
JWB’s Women’s Organizations’
Services has shipped sp^al
packets of holiday foods (Solo
Seders) and literature for Jewish
servicemen stationed in Vietnam,
at all isolated areas throughout
the world and at strategic p~sts
where men cannot be granted
leave for participation in regular
Passover observances.
Jew'sh War Veferon T.ad'es
Auxiliaries and B’nai B’rith
chanters ; n the metropolitan New
York area actively cooperated in
the Solo Seder procram.
In addition. JWB’s women's
group has provided trnvs of dr ; ed
and ennd ; od hopdnv kosher fruit
and t'ns of macaroons to serve as
de<- S a r t at Sedar'm around the
globe. Also included in its Pass-
over panning are a number of
American Jewish civilians on
Peace Corps assignments in
Napal, Tanzania. Tunisia, Pak
istan, Uheria and Turkey and
with a State Department mission
in India.
Months ago, JWB shipped to
Jewish chaplains around the
world supplies of Passover religi
ous literature, Haggadahs and
quantities of matzoth, wine and
canned kosher Passover foods.
Jewish patients in VA hospitals
will also participate in Passover
observances conducted by chap
lains. In some hospitals, record
ings of the Passover service will
be brought to the patients' bed
sides by means of the hospital’s
public address system.
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NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
Long Island Commission of
Rabbis, an Orthodox group, has
filed a $1,000,000 libel suit against
the Friends of Animals, Inc. the
New York Times and 58 individ
uals whose names were listed in
an advertisement in the Times
on March 1 protesting what it
BERMAN GROUPS
SAY DO NOT WANT
U.S. RABBI TALKS*
FRANKFURT, (JTA) — Rabbi
Peter Levinson, of Heidelberg, co-
chairman of the Society for Jew-
ish-Christian Cooperation in Ger
many, has announced that both
Jews and Catholics who are
members of the society oppose
plans announced by Reform
rabbis in the United States to
come to this country to lecture
the Germans about German
Jewry and about the anti-Semit
ism of the Nazi era.
Naming Dr. Maurice N. Eisen-
drath, president of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations,
Rabbi Levinson said; “The rabbis
have an incorrect picture, think
ing that insufficient information
is available. Rabbi Eisendrath
has announced that, in West
Germany, people no longer ac
cept the truth of the Nazi perse
cutions. Actually there is no lack
of information in Germany.
called the "obviously cruel pro
cedure” of “shackling and hoist
ing” conscious animals prior to
kosher slaughter.
The rabbinical group contends
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*Let Mg People Go*
“Let My People Go,’’ the critic
ally - acclaimed documentary
about the Jewish people's strug
gle for a homeland is being pre
sented to the nation’s television
viewers for the second successive
year by Xerox Corporation dur
ing the week of March 27 - April
3.
Produced by David L. Wolper
Productions, the hour-long
special has been nominated for an
Oscar award by,the Academy of
Motion Picture Art3 & Sciences,
an unusual honor to be accorded
film produced specifically for
television.
In Atlanta, the program will
be carried over WAGA Sunday,
April 3, from 10 to 11.
Showings also have been
scheduled in Augusta, Columbia,
Greenville, Asheville, Huntsville,
Jacksonville, Houston, Knoxville,
Chattanooga, Dallas, Memphis,
Mobile, Montgomery, Raleigh,
Shreveport, Tallaha s s e e , St.
Petersburg, Nashville and New
Orleans.
in the suit that the advertise
ment, which was sponsored by
the Friends of Animals and the
58 individuals, maliciously char
acterized the organization’s views
on proposed legislation govern
ing kosher slaughter as being
motivated by economic rather
than religious motives. They
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Covenant
Mogen David
charged that the advertisement
libeled them by saying that they
were “paid to supervise kosher
catering establishments and
butcher shops.” The Commission
'declares in the suit that none of
the rabbis in the organization
was paid for his dietary super
vision.
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