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Orthodox Spokesman Rejects
Vatican Evangelical Schema;
Rome Reports New Maneuvers
New Israel Education Fund
Undertaken by UJA to Solve
Secondary Education Issue
In an atmosphere reminiscent. of history-making
UJA conferences of the past, the national United Jew-
ish Appeal this week made final preparations for its
National Leadership Conference on Education . at the
Biltmore Hotel, New York, next Thursday and Friday.
More than 300 top American Jewish leaders
throughout the nation are expected to attend the ses-
sion, which will introduce the Israel Education Fund,
UJA's newest program of vital absorption aid to Israel's
immigrants. All have been prime movers in previous
pivotal efforts. to meet emergency situations facing
overseas Jewry.
The unbalanced and shortage-ridden secondary
education situation in Israel has been termed a
"grave peril to our future" by Prime Minister Levi
Eshkol.
Detroiters planning to attend and participate in
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NEW YORK (JTA)—The Rabbinical Council of America, an Orthodox group, Monday
made public a statement by Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik; outstanding American Orthodox rabbi,
commenting on the revised draft of the declaration on Jews by the Catholic Church presented to
the third session of the Ecumenical Council which opened its deliberations at Vatican City. Dr.
Soloveitchik's statement, disseminated among the several hundred rabbis affiliated with the
Rabbinical Council, reads:
•
"I fail to understand the surprise and dismay with which prominent Jewish leaders who
actively participated in the theological "Dialogue" with the Catholic Church have greeted the
latest draft of the Schema. The first draft of the Schema, in my opinion, was as evangelical as
this one. The only difference between the two schemas is the explicitness and clarity with which
the evangelical theme has been formulated' now. While the first Schema contained only an indirect
appeal to the Jewish community to embrace Christianity, this one addresses itself to us directly.
• "Both Schemas present the typical Christological view that the historical mission of the
Jews exhausted itself in, the so-called, Praeparatio Evangelica, in paving the way for -Chris-
tianity and that the Jew, after the Biblical drama was consummated in the rise of the Church,
forfeited his covenantal status and his very relationship to the Biblical past because he re-
jected Christ. Since the Jewish leaders did not object to this premise contained in the first
Schema, they should not be surprised now that the Church, in which Jewish history suppos-
edly culminated, expects the Jew to reactivate his role as a historic being, emerge from historic
anonymity, and realize his destiny by ceasing to exist within the framework of a separate
community. -
"Those who are perturbed now should have realized before that the theological "Dia-
logue" was bound to become a theological monologue on the part of the Church which is not
ready to depart from her basic interpretation of Jewish history. Instead of complaining bit-
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`Dead Souls' Emerge as UNRWA 'False Registration
Issue' as Arab Rulers Howl Against Refugee Expose
By SAUL CARSON
JTA Correspondent at the United Nations
(Copyright, 1964, JTA, Inc.)
Few Arab refugees — or, indeed, Arab
leaders — are likely to have any familiarity
With the concept of 'Dead Souls"; about which
a brilliant Russian writer, nam'd _Gogol, had
once built a great novel basked on bitter
reality. But the Arabs are all excited about
100,000 such Dead Souls who have now come
to haunt them.
These are dead "refugees" who, over the
years, have been issued ration cards by the
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine Refugees. Now Laurence Michel-
more, the commissioner-general of this UN
arm for the feeding of the Arab refugees,
proposes to take the dead off his relief rolls.
And the Arabs are howling "chutzpah" —
or whatever that word is hi Arabic.
A UN footnote has suddenly come to life
—and the Arabs don't like it. One who fol-
lows the UNRWA reports filed with the Gen- -
eral Assembly each year knows that foot- -
note well. Year to year, the first of the many
statistical tables forming an annex to that
report deals with the "total registered popula-
tion (of refugees) according to category" etc.
And always there is an asterisk. And, always
that asterisk refers to this footnote (a):
"The above statistics are based on the
Agency's registration records which do not
necessarily reflect the actual refugee popula-
tion owing to factors such as the high rate
of unreported deaths and undetected false
registrations."
*
The United Nations has known about the
"unreported deaths" for many years. How
many Dead Souls holding ration cards are
there? No one knows the exact figure. There
are some reasonable guesses. Michelmore
seems to think that right now they number
at least 100,000. He wants to cancel those
100,000 ration cards and give the cards to
people known to be alive. Isn't that fair
enough?
Let's not be too sure that Michelmore will
actually go through with his plan. So far,
he has put that suggestion only in a prelimin-
ary draft to his next annual report. However,
under the rules guiding his agency, he must
consult the advisory commission set up for
UNRWA. All of the Arab "host" countries=
i.e., Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon—are
members of that commission (Israel is not).
Michelmore showed his preliminary draft to
the commission—as he had to—and hell
broke loose.
Michelmore has plenty of time to revise
his draft report and may toss out the proposal
to take the cards away from the Dead Souls
—under pressure from the Arab rulers. The
refugees value those cards—they are veritable
bread baskets, better than money in the bank.
But the United States also is interested in
those Dead Souls. Because, as is well known,
it is the U.S.A. that pays 70 per cent of
UNRWA's annual costs.
This is Michelmore's first year in his
UNRWA job. He has a long record of UN
Secretariat experience as a man who under-
stands facts and figures. Obviously, those
Dead Souls started bothering him as soon
as he looked into the UN records and the
reports filed by UNRWA 'predecessors. He
can read footnotes with the best of econom-
ists. He wants to do something about the
Dead Souls.
* * *
A Washington Administration keenly inter-
ested in economy would certainly welcome
cutting UNRWA's funds—without letting any-
body starve. But the Arab rulers who have
representatives on that UNRWA advisory
commission are not interested either in sav-
ing Washington's money or, indeed, in saving
the feelings of the refugees who now make
use of those ration cards belonging to the
dead.
UNRWA's mandate Is to end next June 30.
That means that the next General Assembly
must make plans for UNRWA's future. Obvi-
ously, Michelmore is of a mind to make his
first UNRWA report into an honest document.
Will the Arabs let him? We must wait and see.
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Yoti.shall take the product of the goodly trees, branches
of palm trees, boughs of leafy trees and willows of the
brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your. God
seven days.
—Leviticus 23:40