The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, August 05, 1966, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextL Oberanimetgauan Wins Fight Against Script Bias BONN, (JTA) — A leading citizen of Oberammergau, the Alpine village which is the site of the decennial performance of the famous passion pJftiy, has won a long fight for removal of anti- Semitic referencesV from the drama which depict* the death of Jesus. The village council was re ported here as having voted to let the director of the next per formance, scheduled for 1970, use a recently discovered text for the play, written by a Benedictine monk in 1750, instead of the ver sion employed since 1860, writ ten by a local priest. The fight had been carried on by Hans Schwaighofer, head master of the state wood-carving school in the village. He is the man designated to act Judas in 1970, and previously appointed as director of the next performance. He objected to the 1860 version because it contains threats against the Jewish people for their alleged deicide and is, he insisted out of line with the Cath olic Church’s recently promulgat ed decree which repudiates the charge of the collective guilt of the Jews for the death of Jesus. The older version of 1750 refers to allegorical figures, and not to Jews, depicting worldly evil. In deference to Mr. Schwaigh- ofer’s drive, the village council voted to permit him to start re hearsals for the 1970 performance along the lines of the 1750 text. The council decided it wo"' * make a final decision o*~ sue in 1968, after vl ON rehearsal of the pla. without the anti-Sev u0 X oO The Southern Israelite A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925 Vol. XU ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1966 NO. 31 Shazar Honored at UN; Soviet Shazar Cites U. S. Je\VS for Aid Delegates Boycott Luncheon ™ T , n ^ - lo Israel; reted at UJA Dinner UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JTA) — Israel President S. Z. Shazar was honored Monday at the United Nations at a luncheon tendered to him by UN Secre tary General U Thant at the UN headquarters, attended by more than 40 leading diplomatic rep resentatives from various coun tries. The Soviet delegates to the United Nations boycotted the luncheon as did the delegate from Bulgaria, but all other members of the Security Council—except the representatives of Jordan and Nationalist China who were not invited—were present. Mr. Thant announced at the luncheon a toast ‘‘To the Presi dent of Israel’ to which Presi dent Shazar responded emphasiz ing that ‘‘Israel has watched with admiration the wise and courage ous way’’ in which the UN Sec retary-General has carried the burden of his office and pursued tirelessly the goal of peace. “I bring you the warm and af fectionate greetings of my peo ple with the hope that you will be enabled to continue serving mankind for many years to come." Mr. Shazar said. “Israel has a unique involvement with the United Nations—which goes back even befbre we became an independent state. We have a vital interest in the organization New Director Named for UGa. HilleJ Students returning to the Uni versity of Georgia at Athens in the fall will see a new face at Hillel House. Rabbi Max Kert replaces Rab bi Frank A. Fischer as Hillel di rector at the university. Rabbi Kert has been spiritual leader of Temple Beth Ami, Santa Rosa, Calif. He has also served as Hillel counselor at the Univer sity of California at Santa Bar bara where he was president of the Univer sity Religious Conference. Rabbi Fischer has assu m e d the associate di rectors hip of Hillel at Brook lyn College. He is a for mer| Army chaplain who (held stu dent rabbi posts at Congregation Essex, Md., and Mt. Neboh Con gregation, New York City. While in Athens, Rabbi Fischer was the secretary of the Georgia State Association of B’nai B'rith Lodges. He also served for sev eral years on the faculty of the Institute of Adult Jewish Studies in Atlanta. Rabbi Kert, as did Rabbi Fisch er, will serve as spiritual leader of the Athens Jewish congrega tion in addition to his services for the student body. Fischer Beth Sholom, being strengthened to fulfill the ideals of the charter. To all of you who work at the United Na tions and serve those ideals I extend my heartfelt wishes for success’.’’ Mr. Thant presented the Presi dent of Israel with a medallion dedicated to the UN’s Interna tional Cooperation Year and with an autographed album of United Nations stamps. Several hundred members of the United Nations secretariat, standing behind barriers by the UN security guard, applauded the Israeli President as he walked into the building. He was accom panied by Israel’s permanent representative to the United Na tions, Ambassador Michael S. Comav; the President’s aide-de- camp Colonel Aryeh Raz, in full uniform and New York Consul General Michael Arnon. President Shazar was met by Mr. Thant in the UN building and took him up to his office on the 38th floor. After a brief con ference there Mr. Thant led the party to one of the Security Council lounges which had been prepared for the luncheon. The main luncheon dish was poached salmon. While the event was being conducted in honor of President Shazar another lunch eon was given in one of the pri vate dining rooms at the United Nations in honor of Mrs. Shazar. Here the hostess was Mrs. Joan Comay wife of Israel’s Perman ent Representative to the United Nations. About 40 prominent women were guests at the lunch eon. NEW YORK (JTA)—President Zalman Shazar of Israel Monday cited the American Jewish com munity and its support of the United Jewish Appeal for the “effective partnership" with Is rael’s people which ‘made possi ble the resurrection of the Jewish people after the Nazi holocaust.” He warned, however, that ‘‘the task of helping Jews transfer themselves from conditions of subjection, discrimination and fear, to conditions of freedom” fs still far from completed. Israel’s Chief of State spoke at a dinner honoring him and Mrs. Shazar held under the joint auspices of the national United Jewish Appeal and the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York at the Plaza Hotel here, at tended by more than 600 Amer ican Jewish leaders from across the nation, and by Governor Nel son D. Rockefeller, U. S. Senators Jacob K. Javits and Robert F. Kennedy, and high state and city officials. Gov. Rockefeller spoke on be half of the people of New York, and Max M. Fisher, general chairman of the national UJA, and Monroe Goldwater, president of the UJA of Greater New York, spoke for the host organizations. Mr. Fisher assured the President that the UJA leaders, who raised $1,500,000,000 to enable Israel to receive more than a million Jews, pledged their continuing aid to the people of Israel in the great tasks still ahead. Mr. Shazar pointed to his country’s 18 years of Statehood as “years of great achievement for Israel.” He declared that “hundreds of thousands of our people have been helped to live as free men should” and “we have created a firm and unshake- able foundation for cultural and spiritual progress.” As a major accomplishment, President Sha zar noted that “there are more schoolchildren in Israel today than the size of the entire pop ulation in 1948.” Turning to the continuing problems which still confront both Israel and Jews in many parts of the world, Mr. Shazar stressed that in the combined en deavors of the UJA and Israel’s people “none of the goals of this partnership have as yet been completely reached.” He lauded the UJA for its work in “the sacred task of helping Jews to transfer themselves from condi tions of freedom, above all in Is rael.” But he emphasized that “there are still many who yearn for freedom” and the job of fully absorbing Israel’s immigrants is far from finished. “The initial steps of immigra tion and the provision of housing must be supplemented by thor ough economic and cultural in tegration,” Israel’s President told the UJA leaders. “Unless the immigrant whom you help to set tle in Israel is not further help ed to attain the skills and educa tion and social services that will make him and his children root ed and creative members of the At House Group Hearing Southern Leaders of ADL Paste Poison 9 Label on Klan Anti - Defamation League spokesmen appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee recently to endorse the idea of legislation to elimi nate violence and terrorism by such groups as the Ku Klux Klan. Testifying at the invitation of the Committee, Irving K. Kaler of Atlanta, a Southeastern Board Member of the League, told the committee, “Our national con science mandates” the elimina tion of the Klan. “It is an un contested fact that where vio lence and bigotry have besmirch ed our state, the Ku Klux Klan more often than not has been responsible. From the period of 1959 to date, there have been at least 850 recorded instances of violence and intimidation, in cluding 26 bombing of churches and 103 bombings of homes.” Mr. Kaler continued, "We should not assume that all the Klan activi ties and Klan poison is confined to the South.” He indicated Klan activity is a nationwide problem with the Klan itself "boasting of membership in Ohio, Indiana, New Jersey and New York.” The Atlanta attorney, who is vice chairman of the Georgia Democratic Executive Commit tee, added that almost all leading Georgians favor a form of legis lation to eradicate Klan activity. An HUAC bill is now being co sponsored by Atlanta Rep. Charles Weltner and Committee Chairman Edwin Willis of Louisi ana. Mr. Kaler in his testimony cited Fulton Criminal Court Judge Dan Duke’s appeal for Governor Sanders to act to re voke Klan charters issued ih Georgia. Quoting Judge Duke, he said, “proof is available in abundance that the Klan disrupts and destroys the public peace and tranquility of the state.” Justin J. Finger, the ADL*s national fact-finding director, formerly of Atlanta, was among the League officials testifying. Mr Finger said the Klan is mak ing a comeback in membership after a big decline during the Un-American Activities Commit tee probe of the Invisible Em pire. “Any kind of crisis activity has an effect on Klan prolifera tion.” Mr. Finger said. As an ex ample he cited Albany, Ga., which had no Klan a few years ago. “After civil rights demon strations occurred, the Klan flourished there.” “Existing state laws against murder and violence are nulli fied when the state law enforce ment machinery fails to func tion” was the challenge made by Mayer Newfield, a member of the League’s National Commission and a prominent attorney from Birmingham. Appearing with at torneys Finger and Kaler he urged “the need to strengthen and expand Federal protection of the basic rights of life, liberty and property of all citizens.” Prior to their appearance be fore the House committee, the League officials met in Washing ton with Theodore Freedman, di rector of the ADL Southern of fice, in planning additional legis lation that would be requested by the League. These included anti-mask, anti-crossbuming, and anti-motorcade proposals. community, our pledge to the newcomer has not been honored and the future of Israel itself will be profoundly and sadly af fected.” Governor Rockefeller assured President Shazar that the Amer ican people understand that “Is rael was bom and Israel survives in a sea of deep hostility.” The UJA, he said, would “keep its lifeline to Israel open so long as fear and danger cloud the lives of your brothers. But,” he add ed, “I would also like to see fresh, new initiative emerge from Washington in pursuit of a true and lasting peace for your troubled comer of the world. "America must not let its com mitment to peace and freedom in other parts of the world obscure the dangers to the peace of the Middle East,” the Governor con tinued. “The United States should and must exercise its full moral force within the United Nation* to bring Arab and Jew together in lasting peace.” The Governor pointed out that Israel and the United States are joined by “many bonds of humanity, his tory and common experience.” In introducing the President, Mr. Goldwater called him “the personification of his nation and his people. His qualities of mind and character—his wisdom, un derstanding, knowledge and prac tical idealism—make him a most fitting representative of his peo ple.” Mrs. Shazar, he said, ‘is outstanding among the First Ladies of the world’s nations” be cause of her own achievements in the fields of culture, education and literature. in brief BRUSSELS (JTA)— Delegates representing Mapam and Herut announced at the fifth plenary assembly of the World Jewish Congress here that they would boycott the symposium on “Ger mans and Jews” scheduled for Thursday. One of the speakers at that symposium is slated to be Eugen Gerstenmaier, president of the West German Parliament. TEL AVIV (JTA) — Richard Nixon, former United States Vice President and a leading figure in the Republican Party, arrived in Israel Sunday for a 16-hour visit during which he will meet with Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, former Premier David Ben-Gurion and other Is raeli leaders. BONN (JTA)— West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard Mon day denounced the incident of last month in which a building of the Jewish Community Center in Berlin was burned by arsonists. NEW YORK (JTA)—A group of 133 Americans and Canadians sailed aboard the S. S. Shalom Monday. The group, which is composed of 51 family unit*, in cludes college professors, stu dents, retirees, skilled workers, professionals, pioneers and mid- , dle-class businessmen.