Vatican Action Could Help Stem the Anti-Semitic Tide, AJC. Head Says

WJC Supported
by Curacao Jews

NEW YORK (JTA) — Favorable
Ecumenical Council action on a
The development of a unied definitive declaration exonerating
comunity in Curacao and steps to the Jewish people of the ancient
strengthen the content of Jewish charge of deicide could help arrest
life in the community were dis- the growing tide of anti-Semitism,.
cussed at World Jewish Congress in South America, Morris B. Abram,
headquarters in New York during president of the American Jewish
the visit by Rabbi. Simeon J. Committee, said.
Maslin, minister of the United Se-
He based his statement on a sum-
phardic Congregations of Curacao.
mary he made at a press confer-
Rabbi Maslin told World Jewish ence of the results of a three-week,
Congress officials that there are
15,000-mile study made by leaders
now 700 Jews living in Curacao in of the AJC in four Latin American
a total population of about 125,000.
countries.
The present community was but a
Stressing the gravity of the
shadow of the considerable Jewiih
population that had existed until situation in Argentina, Abram said
about a century ago. Rabbi Maslin that the 450,000 Jews of that coun-
said that there are about 90 Jewish try feel more insecure today than
children in the community and he they did sir years ago, when an
and his assistant have inijiated other AJC delegation visited South
Jewish education classes for the America. "While we do not doubt
the good will of the Argentine lead-
children as well as for adults.
Discussing the situation of the ership in government, of the
small Caribbean Jewish communi- Catholic. Church and of the press,
ties generally, Rabbi Maslin re- their techniques in opposing anti-
Ported on his attempts to strength- Sernitism are ineffective," Abram
en Jewish life in the area. He ex- declared. He said that, although the
pressed the belief that improved Argentine penal code outlawed by
contacts between the various small name the anti-Semitic Tacuara and
communities would help each in its Guardia Restauradora Nacionalista
organizations in May 1963, "there
Jewish survival.
Jewish leaders from Argentina has been a proliferation of such
and Uruguay were . the guests of groups, and increased violent ac-
the World Jewish Congress at a tivities with ineffectual enforce-
luncheon in Congress House Sept. ment of the law."
The AJC leader said that more
2. They were: Jose .Kestelman, Ar-
than 150 incidents of violence
gentinian economist and under-
against Jews involving death,
, secretary of the DATA (Delegation
de Asociaciones Israelitas Argen- bombings and other outrages
tinas), the representative body of have been reported in the last
three months without any arrests
' Argentinian Jewry, which is affil-
iated with the World Jewish Con- I and with minimal exposure in the
press. Some members of the
gress; Herbert Treitel, honorary
Argentine Chamber of Deputies,
president of the Uruguayan Jewish
Central Committee, also a World he noted. have publicly question-
ed the patriotism of Argentine
Jewish Congress affiliate; and Dr.
Nella Rost-Holander, he g
- d of Jews and the propriety of Jewish
members of the chamber serving
WJC's office in Montevideo. )
in such national positions. He
The visitors , were welcom'd to
World Jewish Congress he dquar- said that one deputy has even
ters by Monty Jacobs, ecutive proposed an _investigation of
"Zionist" activities in the court-
director of its North American
try.
executive, and Dr. Natan Lerner
Abram stressd that Argentina
of the WJC's international affairs
was a democratic country, not ordi-
department.

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narily given to violence. For that
very reason, he said, the increasing
incidents of violence toward Jews
were of serious significance. He
emphasized the importance of gov-
ernment and church leaders taking
affirmative action to deal with the
potentially explosive situation.
"If economic conditions continue
to deteriorate as they have been
doing in Argentina, Brazil and
Chile," Abram declared, "reaction-
ary elements from within and out
side the South American continent
would find it relatively easy to use
the Jews as scapegoats." This was
especially true, of Argentina, where
the situation "is potentially grave
because neo-Fascists have been en-
couraged and financed by agents
of the Arab League."
These agents, he said, "are spend-
ing enormous sums of money to
set group against group and divide
the Argentine people. They have
adopted the outworn cover of anti-
Zionism as a way of expressing
anti-Jewish sentiments, and are
using this tactic in an attempt to
promote hatred against the Argen-
tine Jewish community, as well as
against other Jewish communities
in South. America.''
He noted that Jews and Arabs
have lived harmoniously together in
Argentine, and that these new ten-

sions are the result of Arab League
provocation. He said the efforts by
agents of the Arab League had ap-
parently faired so far in Brazil,
and that they were completely in-
effectual in Chile and .Peru.
The delegation, Abram declared,
found a "critical shortage of quali-
fied rabbis, teachers, social work-
ers, youth leaders and other pro-
fessional persons whose services
are greatly needed by Jewish coin-

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munities everywhere in South
America."
Members of the delegation in-
cluded Joseph Ross of Petroit,
vice president.

"Ift is important for the develop-
ment of a growing child that he be
given things to break. Rabbah often
bought imperfect earthenware for
his little ones to break if they
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