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Catholic Prelates From Many Lands
Back Americans' Stand on `Deicide',
-ignore Opposition Voiced by Moslems

A ft.:erica:I Jeirry Asked for

127,000,000 Fund to Sol re

Israel's Education Problem

By Jewish News Special Correspondent

NEW YORK—Representatives of Jewish communities
from many states, meeting at an extraordinary conference
on education convened by the United Jewish. Appeal,
Sept. 24-25, at the Biltmore Hotel, gave enthusiastic
endorsement to the plan for a special $127,000,000 fund
for the expansion of Israel's secondary education sYstem.
Evaluation of the needs created by the existence
of large groups in Israel who are deprived of high school
educational media—the participating experts who ap-
peared at the conference having indicated that "Israel's
education is weak in the middle"—the conference adopted
a program for the building of 72 major high schools, to
provide means for the training of 8,500 teachers for sec-
ondary schools, and to assure the awarding of 21,000
student scholarships annually. It was explained that the
total cost of $127,000,000 will include the establishment
of 60 youth centers, 85 prekindergarten schools, 150
fully equipped laboratories and 26 libraries.
Calling upon American Jewry to give full support
to the adopted program—gifts to which are not to affect
UJA giving but are to be supplementary to such contribu-
tions—the resolution adopted by the close to 300 leaders
stated:

"The conference is convinced, as it is, that the imple-
mentation of the program flows logically from UJA's com-
mitment to help in the absorption of the new immigrants
in Israel, and that the program is essential:
"1. to prepare the children of Israel for a useful and
productive life;
"2. to prevent the emergence of "two Israels";
"3. to enable Israel to fulfill Jewish hopes that Israel
will always hold a place • of honor among the
advanced and enlightened nations of the world and
be a source of inspiration to Jews the world over."

Calling attention do the acute shortage of secondary
schools in Israel, the conference resolution pointed out
that the report of the experts who conducted the two-year
survey of Israel's needs made it clear that the children
who suffer most from these shortages are the children

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ROME (JTA) — Three American cardinals, supported by a Canadian and three
Europeans, pleaded eloquently before the Ecumenical Council in Vatican City Monday for
a forthright Catholic Church declaration absolving the Jewish people of the ancient charge
of deicide.
In a strong voice that resounded throughout St. Peter's Basilica, where the Ecume-
nical Council is sitting, Richard Cardinal Cushing, of Boston, opeiled the ebate on the
"Jewish issue" by telling the 2,500 prelates attending the session that "the dec aration must
deny that there is any special culpability on the Jews in the death of Christ. Far be it from
us to set ourselves up as judges in the place of God."

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Cardinal Cushing requested that Council go back to a. stronger text of the
declaration on relations with the Jewish people. He rejected the latest version of the draft,
prepared by the Council's coordinating commission, which had weakened an earlier
document introduced by Augustin Cardinal Bea • last December.
"Our respect for the Jews," said the Boston prelate, "and our love for the sons of

Abraham, must be made clear. This document must be made less timid and more positive.
If no voice has been raised in the past in defense of the Jews, it falls upon us to raise our

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Senate Adopts Ribicoff Resolution Condemning the USSR
for Anti-Semitism; Fulbright Is Proposal's Lone Opponent

WASHINGTON (JTA)—The Senate adopted by a vote of 60 to 1, Senate Resolution 204, introduced
by Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, Connecticut Democrat, expressing the sense of Congress that persecution of Soviet
Jewry,was offensive to decency and humanity.
The resolution provided that "persecution of any person because of their religion by the Soviet Union.
be condemned, and that the Soviet Union, in the name of decency and humanity, cease executing persons
for alleged economic offenses, and fully permit the free exercise of religion and the pqrsuit of culture by
Jews and all others within its borders."
.The resolution resulted from a meeting in Washington last April 24 of major American Jewish orga-
nizations concerned about the rise of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. • The Ribicoff resolution was
introduced as an amendment to a pending foreign bill, providing a legislative means for voicing the views
Sen'. Ribicoff originally intended to be expressed in a Senate resolution.
Opposition to the amendment was voiced by Sen. J. WI Fullbright, the Arkansas Deahocrat who is
chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He urged a substitute amendment broadened to
include condemnation of persecution of all religious sects anywhere in the world. "I do not know why
we should be so exclusive as to restrict the condemnation only to the persecution of the Jews," Sen.
Fulbright said. Ribicoff charged that what Fulbright was attempting was to "completely undercut the
original resolution and take the Soviet Union 'off the hook.'" He went on to explain the unusual plight of
Soviet Jewry and told how his amendment was aimed at meeting the specific problem of the Jews.
Fulbright opposed the Ribicoff amendment with the statement that the State Department, in a
letter signed by Assistant Secretary of State Frederick G. Dutton, said "the Department does not recommend
adoption of a resolution such as Senate Resolution 204." The reason Resolution 204 was acted on as an
amendement was the refusal of Fulbright to report the proposed resolution out of his Foreign Relations
Committee. Speaking for the State Department, Dutton declared that "given the uncertainty of the present
situation in the Soviet Union, any such intervention as that proposed by Senate Resolution 204 might
be seized upon by the Soviet authorities to show that they are in fact able to act independently and
mightjead them to take the very action against the Jewish people of the Soviet Union which we are
trying to prevent."

of high schools of
1 . Construction
the three basic types: compre-

hensive, academic and vocational;
and of nautical schools in three port
areas.

Israels second,/1'1' .aducation

needi. , ivere:outlined in the

nine recommendations that

'were

wade by Israel's #11nister of

education and culture,-

Zalman Aranne

A A school enrichment program, es-

pecially for the benefit of rela-
tively gifted children of Asian-Afri-
can origin, including grants for free
secondary education at boarding
schools for some and a day stimula-
tion program for others.
Broad expansion of early com-
pensatory education through es-
tablishment of prekindergarten
classes, particularly for 3- and 4-year-
olds of Asian-African origin.
Equipping of secondary schools
with physics, biology and chemis-
try laboratories and with audio-visual
aids, basic tools of modern secind-
ary education.

and . equipping of
7 _ Construction
gymnasiums, sports fields and

other physiCal education facilities in
secondary schools where these facil-
ities are inadequate or lacking.

teacher scholarship program to
2 . A attract
new candidates for teach-
5
ing posts in the secondary schools and

of youth centers in
8 _ the Construction
new development towns, of-

secondary sch6o1 scholarship
3 A program
for children of families
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at the lowest - levels of the economic

and equipping of
9 Construction
libraries in new development

to qualify non-certificated teachers.

scale, providing partial tuition in
some cases and supplementary funds
in others.

fering facilities for additional study
and technical training and for group
physical and cultural activities.

towns throughout the country with
populations ranging from 3,000 to
30,000.

