b Are Ilepablicans Being _Duped by Anti-Israel Propaganda 2 Food Issue Distorted in Congress Commentary, Page 2 Ecumenical Blunders See • Commentary Column, Page 2 ririnvm "PrIz THE JEWISH EWS CD E F2 01 -Ts A Weekly Review Editorial, Page 4 Happy Sukkot Greetings to Jewish Communities Everywhere 1N/1 I I - 1 I GA IN of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. XLVI, No. 4 Printed in a 100% Union Shop 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd. — VE 8-9364 — Detroit 35, Mich. — Sept. 18, 1964 — $6.00 Per Year; Single Copy 20c 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 (Continued on Page 5) 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- (Continued on Page 3) `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. .121CPAS des JVITS /mature- IN 7' IC des TZ2V.T.E.S., Sukkot-5725 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