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The Southern Israelite The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Jewry Our 55th Year VOL. LV Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, October 5, 1979 J 'J- 7 2 Sukkot’s here! Jerusalemites circle Torah with Lulav and Etrog while reciting the Hoshana prayer. The circling is done every day and seven times on the seventh day of Sukkot, Hoshana Rabba. Consider Palestinians, says Pope by Yitzhak Rabi UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — Pope John Paul II, in a major address to the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday called for a comprehensive settlement of the Middle East conflict, implied approval of the lsraeli-Egyplian peace agreement and declared that a peace settlement “cannot fail to include the consideration and just settlement of the Palestinian question.” He also spoke on behalf of the territorial integrity and tranquility of Lebanon and reiterated the Vatican’s position on Jerusalem, calling for a “special statute" for that city. Early in his speech, which he delivered in English, the Pope recalled his recent visit to the former Auschwitz death camp and urged that “everything that recalls those horrible experiences should...disappear forever from the lives of nations and states, everything that is a continuation of those experiences only in different forms. ..” He also declared that “All human beings in every nation and country should be able to enjoy their full rights under any political regime or system.” In his remark on the Middle East, the Pope said: “It is my fervent hope that a solution also to the Middle East crises may draw nearer. While being prepared to recognize the value of any concrete step or attempt made to settle the conflict, I want to recall that it would have no value if it did not truly represent the ‘first stone’ of a general, overall peace in the area, a peace that, being necessarily based on equitable recognition of the rights of all, cannot fail to include consideration and just settlement of the Palestinian question." The Pope said, “Connected with this question is that of the tranquility, independence and territorial integrity of Lebanon within the formula that made it an example of peaceful and mutually fruitful co-existence between distinct communities, a formula that I hope will, in the common interest, be maintained with the adjustments required by the developments of the situation." Yehuda Blum, Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, following the Pope’s address, declared that Israel welcomes the appeal of Pope John Paul II “to solve peacefully all outstanding international problems and his clear, unequivocal condemnation of violence and terrorism.” Blum said that “Israel, too, is committed to a just and peaceful settlement of the Palestine question," noting that Israel is engaged in negotiations “to that end" with Egypt and the United States. Responding to the Pope's call for an international statute for Jerusalem, the Israeli envoy stated: “With regard to Jerusalem, the eternal capital of Israel and the Jewish people, Israel has repeatedly given evidence that it is very conscious of the fact that Jerusalem is of deep spiritual significance aLso to the adherents of other faiths "We are mindful of the manifold historic treasures and spiritual heritage of Jerusalem, to which the Pope referred. Under Israel's law and jurisdiction the strict inviolability of and unrestricted access to all of Jerusalem’s holy places is guaranteed to members of all faiths, in the manner unprecedented in the city’s history. 1 hese holy places arc now administered by the religious authorities of the faiths that hold them sacred." Meanwhile, the Pope’s visit to Boston Monday caused some problems for the congregants of Temple Sinai in Brookline who have been observing Yom Kippur at the John Hancock Hall in Copley Square in Boston for the last 10 years. The seating capacity at the hall is 1,100. The temple in Brookline seats only 400 and previously Yom Kippur services had to be held in two shifts. After the Pope’s visit to Boston had been arranged. Rabbi Frank Waldorf of Temple Sinai was reported to have gotten a call from a secretary of the John Hancock building asking if it would be possible to postpone the Yom Kippur services for a day because of the Pope’s visit. The rabbi took the call good-naturedly, saying he realized the secretary did not understand the meaning of Yom Kippur.