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PAGE 3 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE July 18, 1986
Burg says ‘no way to stop’
Mormon center construction
by David Landau
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Ortho
dox groups seeking to block the
Mormon educational center under
construction on Mt. Scopus were
taken aback by Religious Affairs
Minister Yosef Burg’s reported
statement that it was too late to halt
the controversial project.
Burg is leader of the National
Religious Party. As chairman of
the special Cabinet committee set
up recently to decide the fate of the
center, he was considered a key
figure in the fight. Last week he
addressed the meeting of the board
of governors of Yeshiva University
here and reportedly told them it
was “two years and nine million
dollars too late” to halt the Mor
mon center.
That remark was quoted by a
Yeshiva University spokesman.
Burg seemed to back away from it
Monday. But he did not deny that
he thought the project, now well
advanced, is unstoppable.
Orthodox objections center on
the fact that the Mormon church is
evangelical and they fear the cen
ter, sponsored by the church-af
filiated Brigham Young University
of Provo, Utah, will be used for
missionary activities. It will rise
adjacent to the Hebrew Universi
ty’s Mt. Scopus campus.
Yosef Burg
The project originated several
years ago during the Likud admin
istration of Premier Menachem
Begin. It was granted all necessary
permits and building licenses by
the government and the Jerusalem
municipality. Burg is reported to
have stated, “There is no way to
stop it.”
He gave assurances, however,
that “our plan now is to restrict
them as much as we can.” He said
center activities would be limited
to Mormon students from the U.S.
and there would be “no kind of
public lectures or any events of
that nature.”
f Bishop opposes embassy move\
NEW YORK (JTA)—President Reagan has been urged by the
head of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops to veto
legislation that would force the United States Embassy in Israel to
be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Bishop James Malone, recently wrote in a letter to Reagan,
“We believe such a unilateral move would fail to address the special
significance Jerusalem holds for Moslems, Jews and Christians
and it would present yet another obstacle (for) Middle East peace.”
The letter was quoted in the Catholic New York, John Cardinal
O’Connor’s archdiocesan newspaper. Sen. Jesse Helms (R.-N.C.)
is proposing an amendment that would require the embassy loca
tion transfer. Malone is president of the 350-member conference,
which includes O’Connor of New York.
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Under Strict Orthodox Rabbinical Supervision
Burg said he “stressed that there
is no doubt that proselytizing is a
cardinal element in the Mormon
faith. They have developed various
and sophisticated means of acting
among people of other faiths, and
have even printed special instruc
tions about how to forge mission
ary links with Jews, particularly in
Israel.”
Mormon spokesmen here have
stressed repeatedly that the church
does not and will not engage in
missionary activities in Israel. The
Mormon church has in fact main
tained a small center in Jerusalem
for years without arousing con
troversy. But the size and facilities
of the Mt. Scopus center has gen
erated concern in Orthodox circles.
Meanwhile, the Young Israel of
North America, an Orthodox
group, has offered to raise $9 mil
lion to reimburse the Mormon
church for its expenditures on the
new center, if the project is halted.
Harold Jacobs, president of Young
Israel, reportedly proposed this to
Burg over the weekend. Young
Israel, holding its 75th anniversary
convention here this week, has 44
affiliated synagogues in Israel.
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