Nazi Leaflets Pelt Downtown Toronto Streets
Boris Smolar's
'Between You
. and Me'
(Copyright, 1963,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
The Vatican Document
The historic document on Jews presented by the Vatican to
the Ecumenical Council may be taken up for discussion by the
Council Fathers before the Christmas adjournment of the session
. . . The vote on the decree, however, will not take place before
next year . . . Augustin Cardinal Bea, who introduced the
document, received more than 400 communications from rabbis
and Jewish organizations before he formulated his decree for
presentation to the Council Fathers . . . Most important among
these communications were three memoranda from the American
Jewish Committee, submitted at the invitation of Catholic authori-
ties . . They were based on research and on the expertise of
eminent scholars representing Orthodox, Conservative and Reform
Jewish viewpoints . . . The first memorandum analyzed how Jews
are represented in the textbooks most widely used in Catholic
parochial schools throughout the United States, Europe and South
America . . . It brought out in detail specific anti-Jewish aspects
of the educational material used, and pointed to the likelihood
that such teachings against Jews would produce prejudice in the
impressionable minds of students . . . The second memorandum
called attention to certain passages in Roman Catholic liturgy
reflecting hostility against Jews, and to even more hostile
liturgical commentaries and homilies based upon these passages
. . . It expresed profound distress that in liturgical commentaries
published during the last years the Jews were still presented
as the killers of Christ and as a people cursed by God . . . The
third document examined tensions between Catholics and Jews
from a religious viewpoint and offered proposals. for relieving
these tensions . . . It was during the visit in the U.S. of Cardinal
Bea in March that he met with a group of Orthodox, Conservative
and Reform leaders, in their capacity as individuals in the head-
quarters of the American Jewish Committee . . . The meeting
was attended by Rabbis Abraham J. Heschel and Louis Finkel-
stein, of the Jewish Theological Seminary; Rabbi Theodore
Friedman, president of the Rabbinical Assembly of America;
Rabbi Joseph Lookstein, president of Bar-Ilan University; Rabbi
Julius Mark, then president of the Synagogue Council of America;
and Rabbi Albert Minda, then president of the Central Conference
of American Rabbis.
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Calendar Reform
While the Jewish world is deeply impressed with the Vatican
recommendation to the Ecumenical Council to denounce the legend
that Jews are a deicide people rejected by God—"Christ Killers,"
in the popular epithet—Jewish organizations are disturbed over
the inclination of the Ecumenical Council to favor a change in
the calendar . . . The overwhelming majority of the Council has
already agreed to declare that the Catholic Church does not
oppose a new reformed universal civil calendar, provided that the
week of seven days with its Sunday is safeguarded . . . The
question of calendar reform goes back to the days of the League
of Nations and has been before the United Nations for some time
. .. The last move was made in the United Nations in 1956, when
due to active opposition of 6t4 national and central Jewish organi-
zations in the United States, debate on the subject was postponed
indefinitely . . . Jewish opposition to the proposed calendar
reform stems from the fact that the plan for calendar reform,
submitted to the United Nations, includes a "Blank Day" device
. . . It calls for a year of 364 days with a "Blank Day" which
would not be counted as a day of any week but would be marked
as a "world holiday" . . . The purpose • of having a year of 364
days instead of 365 is to divide the year into 52 weeks starting
with a year beginning on Sunday, Jan. 1 ... Thus, the proponents
argue, the calendar will be perpetually the same with 12 months
of equal quarters, the week retaining its sequence of Sunday
through Saturday . . . Jewish organizations, in opposing the
proposed calendar reform, point out that the "Blank Day" device
would destroy the fixity of Sabbath . . Jews and other . Sabba-
tarians all over the. world would be compelled to observe their
Sabbath each year on a different day because the "Blank Day"
would result in the shifting of the Sabbath . . . Taking note of the
argument that the reform of the calendar by the use of the "Blank
Day" device would benefit industry and commerce, the Jewish
organizations emphasize that religious obligations transcen
s-
sumed economic benefits and that the Jewish Sabbath has
n
observed by the Jewish people for over 3,000 years . . . They
propose substitute plans for the reform of the present calendar
without a "Blank Day" which would result in a "wandering"
Sabbath - for Jews . . The Jewish organizations opposing the
"Blank Day" device include the American Jewish Committee,
American Jewish Congress and other national Jewish groups
whose members are mostly non-Orthodox but who are interested
in safeguarding the fixity of the Sabbath . . . Should the Ecu-
menical Council decide to support the proposed calendar reform,
the decision would have to be approved by the Pope . . . In any
case, any calendar reform backed by the Catholic Church will
constitute only the opinion of the Church, leaving the actual
decision on the question to individual governments and to the
United Nations.
JWV Head Pledges to Back Rights Bill
PHILADELPHIA — The Jew-
ish War Veterans of the U.S.A.
will rally in support of the civil
rights bill approved Oet. 29 by
the full House Judiciary Com-
mittee, National Commander
Daniel Neal Heller said at a
meeting of JWV's national exe-
cutive committee.
Commander Heller of Miami,
Fla., said the so-called "com-
promise" bill must be the mini-
mum acceptable legislation pro-
gram . on, civil _rights. and "most
be passed before adjournment
of the 88th Congress if Congress
is to keep faith with the people
and with our destiny as a na-
tion."
He commended the work of
Chairman Emanuel Celler in ar-
riving at a workable piece of
legislation.
A 61,000 ton oil-tanker, Is-
rael's largest vessel to date, was
ordered by "Zim" in Japan for
-SO pillion.
gress met for an hour with the promised through action to in-
TORONTO — Hundreds of head of the police commission vestigate the matter as well as
one-page neo-Nazi and anti-Jew- and the chief constable of the other neo-Nazi manifestations
ish leaflets were strewn on Toronto Metro Police Force who that have been evident here.
downtown Toronto streets, flut-
tering down from above. The
sheets, approximately five
inches square, bore the mes-
sage: "Hitler was right—Com-
munism is Jewish!" and the ad-
dress Box 1371, Arlington, Vir-
ginia. The latter is George
Rockwell's P.O.B.
Some leaflets flew down in
the vicinity of the offices of
the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police — they were strewn in
general in the area of Yonge
and Adelaide and Victoria
streets, in the heart of the busi-
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ness and office section. Police
at first thought they had come
from an airplane overhead but
later assumed they were thrown
down from a high office build-
ing. _
If you would like to see ISRAEL and EUROPE with the
Rockwell, interviewed by a
Elliot Roosevelts, departing January 19, for 20 days,
Toronto newspaper by long dis-
tance phone, disclaimed respon-
PLEASE ACT QUICKLY! Group jet fare of $535.00
sibility for producing the leaf-
wilt apply . . . and you DON'T have to be a member of
lets, but admitted they may
have been scattered by his local
a club, society or organization. Deluxe arrangements
activists of whom he said there
throughout (hotels, meals, sightseeing, transfers) only
were five or six aged between
15 and 20. He refused to give
$1250 all-inclusive!
their names.
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Jordan Opens Warsaw
Jewish Home for Aged
Charles H. Jordan, Overseas
director general of the Joint
Distribution Committee, was the
principal speaker at the official
dedication of a new Jewish
Home for the Aged, in Warsaw,
the first to be built in Poland
since the end of World War II.
Funds for the Home were con-
tributed by the JDC with the
assistance of the Polish govern-
ment and the British Central
Fund. Polish government offi-
cials and Polish Jewish leaders
took part in the dedication.
Akiva Kohan, JDC director for
Poland and Max A. Braude,
director-general of the World
ORT Union, accompanied Jordan
on his trip from Geneva to War-
saw.
You'll meet heads of state in Paris, Rome, Brussels and
Israel. Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Roosevelt will be your hosts.
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