The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, April 01, 1966, Image 3

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Pl|> Three 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. Cone St. Garage 98 Cone St. Auto Repairs Body and Fender Repair Harold Willen, Mgr. You Have Tried The Rest Now Try The Rest Park At The MEYERS PROS. 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 Struggle for Israel Depicted on TV in *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 Carmel 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. Hadar Manischewitz All Israel Imports and Domestic Kosher Wines Crescent Package Store 1905-11 Piedmont Road N.E. Atlanta, Georgia SOL P. 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