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. * * 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- 12555 GRAND RIVER 1;*l ues :e?: Rd. TE 4-4440 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. The Canadian Jewish Con- (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) CALL DI 1-7111 FOR RESERVATIONS Jordan Opens Warsaw Jewish Home for Aged Charles H. 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