NEW YORK (JTA) — The
Jewish Education Committee
warned the New York City
Board of Education that one of
the board's plans for integration
of public schools "poses a grave
threat to the survival of our
system of Jewish religious edu-
cation."
The warning was contained in
a letter to the board signed by
Jules L. Freed, president, and
Dr. Azriel Eisenberg, executive
vice president, of the JEC. The
plan to which the JEC referred
involves board of education in-
tentions to pair schools in mar-
ginal ethnic and racial neigh-
borhoods which would involve
bussing the affected children to
the paired schools.
The JEC explained that a
large proportion of Jewish chil-
dren of grade school age and a
growing number of children in
junior and senior public high
schools were receiving their re-
ligious education in afternoon
Jewish schools three to four
days a week.
In this way, the JEC said,
the children devoted the larg-
est portion of their free time
during daylight hours on
week-days to instruction in
the principles, traditions and
classic materials of Judaism
and thus "fortify and supple-
ment the spiritual and moral
Israel Restores
Higher Degrees
to Bar-Ilan U.
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The gov
ernment's Council on Higher
Education, which must approve
the academic standards in all
Israeli colleges and universities,
ruled that all but three higher
degrees previously issued by
Bar-Ilan University will be given
recognition retroactively. T h e
Council had ruled previously
that none of the higher degrees
issued by Bar-Ilan will be rec-
ognized but reversed itself
not to harm the holders of those
degrees.
The Council added that furth-
er recognition of higher de-
grees from Bar-Ilan and Tel
Aviv University will be guid-
ed by academic standards now
being studied for authorization.
As to the three degrees not rec-
ognized in the order, the hold-
ers of those diplomas will take
special examinations to validate
their status.
Cardinal Cushing Cites Christian Debt to Judaism
BOSTON (JTA) — A call to
Christians to remember that
"the spiritual ancentry of Chris-
tians is Jewish," and that the
values stressed in the public Christians are "the sons of Ab-
raham, Isaac and Jacob" as are
schools."
the Jews, was voiced here by
Pointing out that nearly Richard Cardinal Cushing in an
50,000 children attend religious Easter message.
classes in nearly 500 Jewish
schools usually operated be-
tween 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., Palestinian Refugees
the JEC declared: "The pro-
posed changes will impose hard- Give Arab Organizer
ships on our children, fatigue Too-Warm Reception
and seriously impair the Jewish
BEIRUT—A hostile welcome
religious educational program
that we have painstakingly from several hundred Palestin-
established. The proposal to im- ian refugees awaited Ahmed
pose on the children's time in Shukairy, a Palestinian chosen
getting to and from public by Arab leaders to create a
"Palestine liberation organiza-
schools poses a grave threat to tion."
the survival of our system of
Riot squads dispersed the
Jewish religious education. The
loss to the children would be demonstrators while a police car
escorted Shukairy to his hotel.
enormous."
Reason for the opposition
The JEC officials emphasized
is linked to Haj Amin el Hus-
that they were in favor of public
seini, grand mufti of Jeru-
school integration in principle salem, who claims to be proper
but added that in any changes
and legal representative of
for that goal "school attendance
the Palestinian people.
should be planned so that • it
Some refugees complain that
does not infringe upon the lim- Shukairy is emphasizing civil
ited time and energy that our organization and not immediate
children have available for study military effort to regain lands
of the religious beliefs, ethical now a part of Israel.
precepts and cultural heritage
of our people."
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"Lenten reflection," Cardinal
Cushing declared, "makes us
realize again that Christ was
born a Jew. Mary and Joseph
were Jews. Christ worshipped
in the synagogue. His disciples
were Jews. He said Jewish
prayers. He observed the Jew-
ish Holy Days. He revered the
books sacred to the Jew and to
us. The Golden Rule that Christ
preached was taught in the
temple.
"The 'Lord's Prayer' that
Christ gave his disciples is al-
most identical with the sacred
Kaddish that begins: 'Extoll.
ed and hallowed be the name
of God. May His Kingdom
come and His will be done in
all the earth.'
"Christians must remember
when Jews do not accept Christ
as the Promised One, they do
not reject the ideals that Jesus
preached: humility, j u s t i c e,
mercy, brotherhood, love. The
spiritual ancestry of Christians
is Jewish. The Cross is a point of
separation in our spiritual tra-
ditions, but we must all be keen-
ly aware of the essential Chris-
tian doctrine: Christ died for
the sins of all men, those prior
to His time, His contemporaries,
those who came after him.
"Anti-Semitism is a profound-
ly unChristian attitude. The
only answer the Christian can
give to the question, 'Who put
Christ to death?' is: 'I did, as
often as I have committed a
serious sin."
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Egyptian AF Captain
Defected to Israel as
Protest to Cairo Action
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Capt.
Mahmoud Hilmi, the Egyptian
Air Force pilot who startled both
Israel and the Arab world last
January by defecting to Israel
in his plane, told a press con-
ference that he did so because
he opposed Egypt's participation
in the Yeman civil war.
Asked why he chose Israel, he
replied: "I had two possibilities,
an Arab country or Israel. The
Arab countries are unstable;
therefore, I chose Israel."
Eshkol Promises Aid
for Hebrew Book Sales
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to
The Jewish News)
TEL AVIV—Prime Minister
Levi Eshkol pledged at the an-
nual meeting of the I s r a e l i
Writ e r s Association Monday
night that the government
would be ready to give financial
aid to "A reasonable and con-
crete" plan to foster public in-
terest in Hebrew books.
He urged the writers to pro-
vide a greater influence on the
new generation of Israeli Jews.
S. Shalom, the poet, expressed
regret that "A spirit of nihi-
lism" had "cast its shadows"
on the young writers.
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N. Y. School Integration Plan Hit
by Jewish. Education Committee
as Threat to Religious Program