NEW YORK (JTA) — Bnai Brith Anti-Defamation League adopted a budget for 1964 total- ing $4.317,000. The budget was approved at the closing session of the League's 51st annual meeting this week. A national drive to seek to raise the amounts needed will be headed by Paul Sampliner, chairman of the ADL's national campaign cabinet. An announcement that the ADL has underwritten a $500,- 000 five-year program of re- search which, when com- pleted, "will be the most com- prehensive study of Ameri- can anti-Semitism ever con- ducted" was made by Samuel Dalsimer, chairman of the league's program committee. According to Dalsimer, the survey will "cover such areas as prejudice among adolescents. the relationship of Christianity to anti-Semitism, political values, the extent and location of anti-Semitism, and the insti- tutions in American life sup- porting it." Dr. Charles Y. Glock, of the University of California's sur- vey Research Center, at Berke- ley, is in charge of the survey. The ADL convention also heard the annual report by Dore Schary, national chairman of the League, and an address by U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, brother of the late President Kennedy. At the convention's closing session, the league's annual Democratic Legacy Award in the form of silver medals, was presented by Schary to the R e v. Eugene Carson Blake, A. Philip Randolph, Walter Reuther and Roy Wil- kins for their "distinguished contributions to the enrich- ment of America's democratic legacy." A message from President Johnson lauded the medalists for their "contributions to the cause of human equality and Justice." Messages on civil rights and Christian-Jewish relations were given by Sen. Kennedy and Ben- jamin R. Epstein, national ADL director. Sen. Kennedy declared that the civil rights bill "will pass the House unweakened" and that only a filibuster can stop a Senate majority "ready and willing to vote for it." The senator, in his first public appearance in New York since the death of Pres- ident Kennedy, pledged him- self to vote for the bill and to "support all necessary means to give the majority of the Senate, after full and fair debate, a chance to work its will." Likening the position of the Negro to where "the Jewish immigrants and the Irish immi- grants stood 40 to 50 years ago," he said they face "the same kind of barriers, the same kind of stereotypes," and warned that the time was long overdue for the American peo- ple to rid themselves of pre- judice and discrimination. Sen. Kennedy noted that the Anti - Defamation League had last year presented John F. Kennedy with its Legacy Award for "distinguished contributions to the enrichment of our demo- cratic heritage." "There is an ancient Jew- ish saying that 'the righteous are mightier in death than in life,' " Sen. Kennedy said. "Certainly today, the finest thing all of us could do, in his memory, is to devote our- selves to the principles and programs for which he lived and to the eradication of the hatred and extremism that took him away." The notion that the Jewish people have responsibility for the death of Jesus is "still dis- tressingly alive and a cruel, critical factor in perpetuating anti-Semitic prejudice," Epstein declared. He reported that the Univer- sity of California study of atti- tudes toward Jews on the part of "church-oriented Christians" made clear that Christian lead- ership—Protestant and Catholic —must more actively undertake the mission of rectifying "the centuries-old injustice of anti- Semitism." Among the findings made so far in a preliminary question- naire were these: the proportion of persons in- dicting Jews for the death of Jesus was smaller in large, lib- eral congregations than in con- servative and fundamentalist groups. He pointed out that 55 per cent of large, liberal congrega- tions blamed Jews for the crucifixion, while 84 per cent of the fundamentalists did. He added, however, that the report indicated that all groups tended to remember Judas as a Jew, not as a Christian, and said the "sin- ister connection" was rein- forced by the similarity be- tween the words "Judas" and "Judaism." —81 per cent of the adult Chris- tian church members studied "The findings of the pre- believed that Pontius Pilate liminary study merely reinforce wanted to spare Jesus from the Cross. More than 48 per cent of us in our long-time speculation the total thought that he failed on the role of church institu- to spare Jesus because "a group of powerful Jews wanted Jesus tions in developing ambivalent dead." and often tragic attitudes to- —69 per cent of the total chose Jews as the group "most re- ward Jews—a speculation that sponsible" for crucifying Jesus. led to the study itself," Epstein —19 per cent believed that Jews have been persecuted because declared. "God is punishing them for re- The ADL director cited the jecting Jesus." Another 15 per cent were undecided on the is- proposed Ecumenical Council sue. document, rejecting the notion —45 per cent agreed that "Jews can never be forgiven for what that the Jewish people were they did to Jesus until they ac- responsible for the death of cept him as the True Savior." Another 18 per cent were un- Jesus, as "a significent develop- certain as to whether or not ment, which could, if adopted, Jews could be forgiven unless they turned to Jesus. presage a major and positive In his report on attitudes of change in attitudes throughout church-oriented Christians to- the world." ward Jews, Epstein said that Jewish Congress to Appeal Dixie Prayer Decision TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (JTA) —The Supreme Court of Florida ruled that if Bible reading and recitation of the Lord's Prayer in Florida public schools is to be barred, it will have to be done by an order of the United States Supreme Court, not by the Florida tribunal. The Florida Supreme Court took that stand in ruling for a second time that it considered such practices as legal. The sec- ond ruling was required because the U.S. Supreme Court sent back the first decision of June 1962 and asked the Florida court to modify it to conform with a decision in Pennsylvania and Maryland cases that such practices were unconstitutional. The second decision, like the first, contended that the prac- tices in Florida public schools were different from those in Pennsylvania and Maryland, be- cause the Florida law describes the practices as "good moral training." The Florida court said again that the practice was founded on secular considera- tions and that the practice was necessary for good citizenship and were therefore not in con- flict with the constitutional re- quirement of church-state sepa- ration. * * * NEW YORK (JTA) — The American Jewish Congress an- nounced it would appeal to the United States Supreme Court the decision by the Florida Su- preme Court that upheld Bible reading in Florida public schools. Leo Pfeffer, general counsel of the Congress ,who represent- ed Jewish and non-Jewish par- ents in challenging religious practices in the Miami public schools, said the Florida court's action was not consistent with U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the Schemp and Murray cases and added he would ask the U.S. Supreme Court to declare the Florida Bible reading statute equally invalid. He who has one hundred din- ars, desires two hundred.—Mid- rash. British Car Firm Gets Largest Order From Israel LONDON, (JTA)—The Reli- ant Motor Co. announced today it had received an order from Autocars of Haifa for 4,000 cars and commercial vehicles worth more than 1 million pounds sterling ($2.8 million). The order represented the British firm's largest single sale. It has had business ties with the Haifa firm for 10 years. CONGRATULATIONS It is a pleasure to announce that PAUL L. 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